An Essay on the Office of the Intellect in Religion: With Especial Reference to the Evidences of a Revelation, and the Proof of Christian Doctrine (Classic Reprint)

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It must be allowed that investigations of this kind, though presenting considerable difficulties, might with advantage engage the attention of more persons than are found disposed to enter on them. We all acknowledge that it is our duty to maintain, as we best may, that portion of the truth with which, through God's providence, we are in trust; and we should be ashamed to express a doubt of the ultimate reward of our exertions in its cause, if they failed to meet with the encouragement of present and visible success. Notwithstanding, it is too true, that while no amount of labour is thought ill-bestowed on the less necessary details of learning in all its departments, the men of this generation are impatient of the study of those eternal principles, in harmony with which alone consist the truth and power of growth of all real. Human knowledge. Even the teachers of the age, who, from their natural gifts and providential, ad vantages, are capable of nobler work than the accumulation and arrangement of outward facts.

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