The Christian Philosopher Or The Connexion Of Science And Philosophy With Religion PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... by a system of internal powers, beyond all human comprehension, as to the mode of their operation, such dismal effects are effectually prevented. In short, when we consider, that health depends upon such a numerous assemblage of moving organs, and that a single spring out of action, might derange the whole machine, and put a stop to all its complicated movements can we refrain from joining with the Psalmist, in his pious exclamation, and grateful resolution, " How precious are thy wonderful contrivances concerning me, O God! how great is the sum of them! I will praise tbee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.," Omitting the consideration of several other departments of science, I shall, in the meantime, notice only another subject connected with religion, and that is History. HISTORY. History embraces a record and description of past facts and events in reference to all the nations and ages of the world, in so far as they are known, and have been transmitted to our time. As Natural History contains a record of the operations of the Creator in the material world, so, sacred and civil history embraces a record of his transactions in the moral and intellectual world, or, in other words, a detail of the plans and operations of His Providence, in relation to the inhabitants of our globe. Through the medium of Sacred History we learn the period and the manner of man's creation--the reason of his fall from the primitive state of integrity in which he was created, and the dismal consequences which ensued;--the various movements of Providence in order to his recovery, and the means by which human Redemption was achieved;--the manner in which the Gospel was at first...