Four Sermons Delivered at Cavendish, VT: On the Doctrine of Endless Misery (Classic Reprint)

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But while some reject the proper use of reason in the affairs of religion, there are others who run into the opposite extreme, and reject every thing which is not completely within the reach, or comprehension of their reason; This is a fruitful source of skepticism and infidelity, as will be more fully seen when I come to speak more particularly of the proper use and office of reason in the affairs of revelation and religion. There are many things above the perfect com: prehension of reason and yet we know they exist. We cannot tell in What manner inert and unconscious matter could be so organized as to constitute our own living and sensitive bodies - how from it the beating heart and heaving lungs could be formed or how it could be converted into that vital fluid which circu lates with such rapidity and regularity through the whole human system. Yet oi a\\ we.

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