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Christianity and Morality; Or, the Correspondence of the Gospel With the Moral Nature of Man. the Boyle Lectures for 1874 and 1875
Christianity and Morality Or the Correspondence of the Gospel With the Moral Nature of Man the Boyle Lectures for 1874 and 1875 Author:Henry Wace General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Pickering Subjects: Christian ethics Religion / Ethics Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typo... more »s or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE IV. THE DIVINE PERSONALITY. Isaiah lv. 8, 9. " For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your . ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." THE point to which I endeavoured to conduct this argument in the last Lecture was the presumption, afforded by analogy, that our invisible and eternal, no less than our visible and temporal, relations have reference to persons and not merely to things. It appeared that the definitions of Morality, alike in their most perfect form and in the character of their imperfections, all point to the impossibility of denning righteousness or virtue by any rule, and to the fact that the health of the soul consists in a right attitude towards persons. The sense of obligation to an unj seen power, compared with the similar sense of obligation to our fellow-men, was observed to point in the same direction. The result is that the soul must be considered as part of a great system of Personalities. You cannot decide upon its healthiness by examining it separately, as you might with an inanimate thing, or even with the inanimate part of man himself. Just as the condition of a planet does not merely consist in its internal constitution, but also in its obeying a common attraction with other planetary bodies and in its revolving round the sun, so the health or salvation of any person must depend up...« less