The Fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men: Ii ...
The Fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men: Ii ...
Trench, Richard Chenevix, 1807-1886
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And thus, because men have hoped for, and reached * after, that which in Christ is given, and hoped so in- tensely, that they have sometimes imagined it to be actually theirs, so projecting their hope, ^s to give it at last an objective reality, we are bidden to believe that ours is but such an ardent desire, fashioning at lejngth a body for itself. Parading a long line of shadows, these adversaries require us to acknowledge the substance we have embraced to be a shadow also ; showing how much ...false money is in the world, and has at different times passed current, they demand of us, how we dare to assume that which we have accepted to be true; — when they should see that the shadows imply a Substance somewhere, that the false money passes only under shelter of a true. Proving, as it is not hard to prove, those parallels to be groundless and .mythical, to rest on no true historic basis, they •Digitized by Google INTROnUCTORy LECTURE. 171 bope tbat the great facts of the Christian's belief \viH be concluded to be as weak — that they will be in- volved in a oommon discredit*— and the faiths of which those other formed a part having come to nothing) or evidently hastening to decay, that this may be assumed to underlie the same judgment, and to be hastening to the same inevitable dissolution, however the signs of it as yet may not appear.
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