Sacred Classics, Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity (Volume 28) - Softcover

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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. 1836. Excerpt: ... and make his use of them for the confirmation of his own doctrine; but this was done when he was arguing with heathens, not with Christians. There is not the same propriety, when his sublime chapter on the resurrection is compared (as I have seen it) with Plato's doctrine of generation and corruption. Take the heathen doctrine of the origination of mankind, and compare it with the sacred history of Adam in Paradise, and it will soon appear how little the one wants the help of the other. Quum prorepserunt primis animalia terris Brutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter TJnguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque ita poiro Pugnabant armis, quae post fabricsverat usus: Donee verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, Nominaque invenere--Hon. It was a doctrine of the heathen poets, that men, when first made, were without speech, creeping on all-four like beasts, living upon acorns, and lodging like swine in a forest: whereas, when we consult the Bible, we find the first man conversing with his Maker, placed under a state of instruction and probation, and in a condition but little lower than an angel. What must the consequence be, when an attempt is made to reconcile these two accounts, and melt them down together? Yet was this actually done by the learned Dr. Shuckford, as it may be seen in the last-written preface to his Connexion; where the history of Adam, and of Eve, and of paradise, and the intercourse of man with his Creator, is commented upon and illustrated from Ovid and Tully, and Mr. Pope's poetical system of deism, called An Esaay on Man; till the whole is involved in obscurity, and becomes even childish and insignificant; as if it had been the design of the critic to expose the sacred history to the contempt of blasphemers and infidels. This...

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