Studies of Christianity Or Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers a Series of
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Do we speak of conduct and our relations with men ? then we stop upon the ground, and get no nearer to heaven and its lights. The pro- tests of our better nature against our own shortcomings, the sadness of repentance, and the alarms of guilt, so far from being confirmed by true religion, are shown to be mere delu- sion and idle self-torture ; and the conscience that can feel such compunctions is a stupid ass struggling in the dust and flats of this world beneath a servile burden it need never ...bear. To trouble the heart with any moral anxieties or aspirations is the most fatal act of unbelief, a downright plunge from heaven over the precipice of hell. The moral law may rule the body and its members, but has no right to any allegiance from the soul. * In any personal and historical estimate of Luther there would be much to say in palliation of these monstrous positions ; it would be easy to show their connec- tion with some of the noblest characteristics of his genius, and their antagonism to some of the worst features of his times.
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