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Excerpt from Essay on Faith
IT is my object to endeavour to illustrate as simply as possible the' reasonableness of Faith considered as a religious principle; yet not as an abstract principle only, but as an actually existing attribute of a soul which is consciously dependent on a living and present God; and which, in consequence of this dependence, puts forth certain well-defined energies in direct obe dience to that higher power which it loves to obey. We may be painfully conscious that to be persuaded of the reasonableness of ever so good a thing does not necessarily ensure our practising it, liable as we are to have our judgment blinded by the glitter of apparent and immediate cuj oyments, the grasping of which may preclude our acceptance of the other good thing set before us. Above all, we may be painfully conscious how far the head is from the heart, and how the one may yield a temporary assent, while the other refuses to be softened. Nevertheless, believing that in?uences for good ?ow in upon the religious life by various channels, we may hope that every line of thought that leads at last to Christ, is one of the myriad threads by which it is well if we are discovering ourselves to be bound to the realities of the world to come.
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