An Inquiry Into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity: And an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by which it is Defended. With Observations on Some of the Causes of War and on Some of Its Effects |
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Page 28 - befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me; neither count I my life dear unto myself'* What resemblance has bravery to courage like this
Page 79 - Some of the commands under the law, Christianity requires us to disobey. "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, &c. all the men of the city shall stone him with stones that
Page 48 - malice..— Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. Avenge not yourselves.—If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if
Page 79 - die.* If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, entice thee secretly, saying, ' Let us go and serve other gods
Page 28 - rather than of the spirits. It is a calm, steady determinateness of purpose, that will not be diverted by solicitation, or awed by fear. " Behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me; neither
Page 34 - hope, has had few examples. Oh! how unlike another exhortation— " Put on mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another,
Page 49 - cheek, turn to him the other also."—•" Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy; but / say unto you> Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you; and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you : for if ye love
Page 93 - is true; for Christianity, soliciting admission into all nations of the world, abstained, as behooved it, from intermeddling with the civil institutions of any. But does it follow, from the silence of Scripture concerning them, that all the civil institutions which then prevailed were right, or that the bad should not be exchanged for better?
Page 34 - 'Tis strange to imagine," says the Earl of Shaftesbury, " that war, which of all things appears the most savage, should be the passion of the most heroic spirits."—But he gives us the reason.—" By a small misguidance of the affection, a lover of mankind becomes a ravager; a hero and deliverer becomes
Page 73 - implements of war." Lactantius, another early Christian, says expressly, " It can never be lawful for a righteous man to go to war." About the end of the second century, Celsus, one of the opponents of Christianity, charged the Christians with refusing