The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions.
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1854. Excerpt: ... papists without a pope, and protestants who protest only against all protesting ; and will appeal to them in words which yet more immediately concern them as Christians, in the hope that they will lend a fearless ear ...
MoreBook may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1854. Excerpt: ... papists without a pope, and protestants who protest only against all protesting ; and will appeal to them in words which yet more immediately concern them as Christians, in the hope that they will lend a fearless ear to the learned apostle, when he both assures and labors to persuade them that they were called in Christ to all perfectness in spiritual knowledge and full assurance of understanding in the mystery of God. There can be no end without means : and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive-tree of our natural powers, was not given us to be burned or blighted, but to be grafted on. We are not only not forbidden to examine and propose our doubts, so it be done with humility and proceed from a real desire to know the truth; but we are repeatedly commanded so to do ; and with a most unchristian spirit must that man have read the preceding passages, if he can interpret any one sentence as having for its object to excuse a too numerous class, who, to use the words of St. Augustine, qucerunt non ut fidem sed ut injidelitateni inveniant;--such as examine not to find reasons for faith, but pretexts for infidelity. ESSAY XII. Such is the iniquity of men, that they suck in opinions as wild asses do the -wind, -without distinguishing the 'wholesome from the corrupted air, and then live upon it at a venture: and when all their confidence is built upon zeal and mistake, yet therefore, because they are zealous and mistaken, they are impatient of contradiction. Jekemt Tayloe.* "if," observes the eloquent bishop in the work, from which my motto is selected, " an opinion plainly and directly brings in a crime, as if a man preaches treason or sedition, his opinion is not his excuse. A man is nevertheless ...
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