Memoirs of the Life And Writings of the Right Rev Richard Hurd
Memoirs of the Life And Writings of the Right Rev Richard Hurd
Hurd, Richard, 1720-1808
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Their better way, I think, will be, to study the evidences of true religion in sound reasoners on that subject, their conviction of which will produce a firm faith. And such a faith will have all the effects of love (though not so speedily or cer- tainly perhaps) in leading them to a good life, the end of true Christian religion, i. E. Of true piety. The spiritual life of the pietist may be pleasanter and more rapturous, but will be equally solid in the rationalist, i. E. The be- liever, who is... such on the grounds of fair reasonable in- quiry, and not of feelings and transports, of which his com- plexion may render him incapable. These thoughts occurred to me in reading the controversy betwixt Fenelon and Bossuet, the two heads of the French mystical and rational divines; men of undoubted piety, but of opposite constitutions. 266 SELECTIONS FROM BISHOP KURD'S judgment of the merits of any question, and not of superior sagacity or unbiassed candour. The picture Plato draws of the hearers of Socrates, in the Phsedo, is a natural one.
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