The Accepted Penitent: A Sermon Preached Before the Church Penitentiary Association at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Thursday, April 18, 1861 (Classic Reprint)

By Henry Drury

The Accepted Penitent: A Sermon Preached Before the Church Penitentiary Association at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Thursday, April 18, 1861 (Classic Reprint)

Name: The Accepted Penitent: A Sermon Preached Before the Church Penitentiary Association at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Thursday, April 18, 1861 (Classic Reprint)
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By Henry Drury

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Excerpt from The Accepted Penitent<br/><br/>WE have lived to see a revival of many daring and offensive speculations on great cardinal truths of religion. Old thread bare exceptions to positive statements of Holy Scripture are again raked up and set on high with an industry savouring of other days, and all the time-worn controversy on the possibility of miracles, of any interruption to the ordinary course of nature, is once more exhumed for the plaudits of the multitude, and for discrediting the letter of the Word of God. And so it falls that, as with other doubts and cavil lings, the old Corinthian scepticism lives again. A voice is again whispering amongst us that there is no resurrection of the dead: no such resurrection of the body as we in our simplicity have been brought to believe that the records of the Evangelists want that entire agreement in the details of the narrative, which alone could authenticate the rising of the crucified Jesus: that therefore it ought to be a thing as incredible to us, as it was to King Agrippa, that God should raise the dead. It is not my business now to defend the Faith. These criticisms have been answered so often and with such over whelming power, that I am prepared to say, with some of the master-spirits of our Church, that in all the range of history, sacred or profane, nothing is better attested than the blessed Fact, which makes our Easter the queen of festivals, and gives us an assurance of victory over death, and over the grave, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 17
Release Date:: 2018-08-24
Publication Date:: 2018-08-24
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0243411286

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