ISBN: 9780217897853

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1885 Excerpt: ... the regulated use or exchange of these the nations edify one another, and these therefore become the Sacraments of its life and worship. Its organs and its ministries must be established by some kind of representatives, who will exercise that portion of authority with which the nations voluntarily part. Whatever their particular functions may be, they will be, by virtue of their beneficent mission, truly ministers of God and organs of the Divine Spirit. When Western Europe becomes one great Church, the head or leading portion of the Church of humanity will be organised. It will then have the duty of assimilating by degrees the more backward nations to itself. Colonisation, commercial and other intercourse with the barbarous and savage races, the progressive effort to raise those races by the infusion among them of the spirit of Christian civilisation, will form the functions of the Church now become fully universal; and the longed for completion of this process is that which is expressed by the religious words, the building up of the Holy City, the establishment of the kingdom of God, the universal reign of Christ. Two things must be added. First, the various circles of human society, the churches within the Church, such as we have described them, are permanent. They aid one another, and further the life of the whole. Secondly, the chief of these circles will always be the society for public worship, the inspiring power of the spiritual life of the whole. On the principle of Election which we have maintained, the elect body is that in which the Christian spirit of universalism is most fully received and enforced, and the sources of the Christian life brought to view, in which the worship is direct, with only such sacramental media as are needed for the bare... William Henry Fremantle, Books, History, The World As The Subject Of Redemption; 8 Lects. Delivered On The Foundation Of J. Bampton Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / General; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics; Religion / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology; Religion / Christian Church / General; Social Science / Sociology of Religion;<

ISBN: 9780217897853

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1885 Excerpt: ... the regulated use or exchange of these the nations edify one another, and these therefore become the Sacraments of its life and worship. Its organs and its ministries must be established by some kind of representatives, who will exercise that portion of authority with which the nations voluntarily part. Whatever their particular functions may be, they will be, by virtue of their beneficent mission, truly ministers of God and organs of the Divine Spirit. When Western Europe becomes one great Church, the head or leading portion of the Church of humanity will be organised. It will then have the duty of assimilating by degrees the more backward nations to itself. Colonisation, commercial and other intercourse with the barbarous and savage races, the progressive effort to raise those races by the infusion among them of the spirit of Christian civilisation, will form the functions of the Church now become fully universal; and the longed for completion of this process is that which is expressed by the religious words, the building up of the Holy City, the establishment of the kingdom of God, the universal reign of Christ. Two things must be added. First, the various circles of human society, the churches within the Church, such as we have described them, are permanent. They aid one another, and further the life of the whole. Secondly, the chief of these circles will always be the society for public worship, the inspiring power of the spiritual life of the whole. On the principle of Election which we have maintained, the elect body is that in which the Christian spirit of universalism is most fully received and enforced, and the sources of the Christian life brought to view, in which the worship is direct, with only such sacramental media as are needed for the bare... William Henry Fremantle, Books, History, The World As The Subject Of Redemption; 8 Lects. Delivered On The Foundation Of J. Bampton Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217897853

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[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Christ and His apostles and. What is the Church through which its salvation is to be wrought out I. What is the world which Christ came to save, and which is to be changed into His Church ? We mean by the world the organized constitution of things in which we live, including the material universe so far as we apprehend it, but chiefly humanity, which (taking the world as known to us) is its crown. The world is the universe as conceived of and wrought upon by men. It partakes, therefore, of man's rise and fall for, if man be degraded, outer nature becomes evil to him, and through him the source of evil to others whereas, when man rises to his true position, all outer nature is first viewed as serving the spiritual good of mankind, and then is actually used for this purpose. The world thus conceived is a harmony. But the harmony is broken through when man is driven helplessly by the physical powers by which he is surrounded when he reckons them above instead of below him, as idolaters do, and he thus becomes impotens sui, resigning his rightful supremacy or when he drifts on without a perception of the Moral Order or, again, when he uses nature and his fellow- men wilfully or selfishly, instead of seeking that they and he ehould serve the highest spiritual purpose. The harmony is restored when the spiritual aim is understood and embraced. Then men are at one through their common pursuit of justice and love, and outer nature is subservient to this pursuit. This harmony is also properly divine the world thus conceived is a manifestation of God. He who perceives and acts upon this harmony is a believer in God, whether he name thesacred name or not. He who through moral indifference does not recognize it, at least as 'the purpose of the ages, ' and he alone, may properly be c...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9780217897853

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