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Excerpt from Eight Discourses on the Connection Between the Old and New Testament Considered as Two Parts of the Same Divine Revelation: And Demonstrative of the Great Doctrine of Atonement
The seventeenth 'century bore witness to such a, rapid progress Of the human understanding, as hofpreceding age had experiencedu: Human reason, by a more than ordinary exertibn, ' seemed desirous bf redeeming the timetshe had lost The, science Of divinity could' not';fail to reap advantage from the increasing knowledge. Of an improvingage: and was manifestly travelling back towards that state Of pri mitive perfection, from whichit had long. Since departed. But as.evil sometimes arises out of good, so itmay be questioned, whether the same re'asons which confess. Edly contributed to the revival and' re cstablishment Of true divinity, have not since proved instrumental to its corrup tion.
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