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John Foster on Missions; With an Essay on the Skepticism of the Church
John Foster on Missions With an Essay on the Skepticism of the Church Author:John Foster General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: Edward H. Fletcher Subjects: Missions Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of thi... more »s book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE GLORY OF THE AGE. THET CAME NOT TO THE HELP OF THE LORD, TO THB HELP OF THE LORD AGAINST THE MIGHTY. JUDGES, V. 23. The practice may be too frequent, of accommodating objects and effects in the world of nature, the relations and transactions in that of human society, and the merely secular facts of the Scripture history to the purpose of representing, in the way of formal and protracted similitude, the truths and interests of religion. We may observe, however, that it seems to the honor of religion that so many things can be accommodated to its illustration, without any recourse to that perverted ingenuity which fancifully descries or invents resemblances. It is an evident and remarkable fact, that there is a certain principle of correspondence to religion throughout the economy of the world. Things bearing an apparent analogy to its truths, sometimes more prominently, sometimes more abstrusely, present themselves on all sides to a thoughtful mind. He that made all things for Himself appears to have willed that they should be a great system of emblems, reflecting or shadowing that system of principles, which is the true theory concerning Him, and our relations to Him. So that religion, standing up in grand parallel to an infinity of things, receives their testimony and homage, and speaks with a voice which is echoed by the creation. It may, therefore, be permitted us to fix upon a circumstance in the political conduct of an ancient people, as adapted to suggest more than it essentially contains...« less