The Will and the Affections: A Sermon Prepared for the Ordination of Mr. Richard Pike, Over the Third Religious Society in Dorchester, Mass., February 8, 1843 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Our views of the extent of human ability necessarily lie at the basis of our theology. We look to religion to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. We regard religion as the complement of human nature, - as that, which is necessary to finish the human temple in undy ing perfectness and beauty. What seems to us wanting in the temple as it stands, we seek to supply from records or sources of religious faith. Hence, if we think too meanly of man's nature and native ability, we lumber our theology with excessive and superfluous doctrines. If, on the other hand, we in any wise over-estimate man's nature and ability, in that same proportion our theology becomes defective and meagre, our respect for revelation declines, and our sense of the need and worth of religion fades away.

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