ISBN: 9780217243032

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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. 1874. Excerpt: ... in hand with advanced religious opinions. It is only indiscriminating detractors who add the indictment of lax morality. But I know a great many persons in every school of religious thought, Roman, Anglican, and Nonconformist, who reason thus--If we bid men in this way not doubt, but summarily disbelieve miracles which are alleged to be performed in their midst, and therefore to be subject to the test of their five senses, can we fairly ask them to credit other miracles whose occurrence, several centuries ago, is only narrated in a book, albeit that book is the Bible? Consequently some religious people, more logical than those who stand aloof altogether, proceed to try the spirits, and profess to have proved by their exorcisms that the whole matter is diabolical, and therefore wisely refrain from practising it. Others take quite an opposite course. They refuse to believe that God, as a God of mercy, would permit the access of evil spirits, and refuse man the ministry of angels. They believe that, in this respect, as in all others, man is bound to exercise the judgment and the free-will which God has given him. They seem to read in legends of Eden the theory written down for them, that good and evil spirits have equal access to man, and that his own moral condition determines which shall have supremacy. It was my lot to meet with a clergyman of the Church of England who held these views; and the practical outcome of his opinions seemed to me sufficiently curious to form an interesting subject for a paper. After many years'' anxious struggle, he accepted the facts of Spiritualism, and assured me that, when he had done so, a new light seemed to enter his mind in the way of interpreting Scripture. I found, he said, I had been a Spiritualist all my life ... Charles Maurice Davies, Books, Orthodox London; Or, Phases Of Religious Life In The Church Of England, By The Author Of 'unorthodox London' Books, General Books LLC<

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