The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation

by James Barr Walker Narrated by LibriVox Community

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The book is a series of independent demonstrations, the results of which accumulate to the final conclusion, that the Christian religion is necessarily the only religion possible to meet the spiritual wants of mankind. In arriving at this conclusion, the different arts and processes of revealed religion are examined, and their adaptedness to perform their several functions in elevating, purifying, and actuating the human soul to benevolent effort, is determined, and, finally, the practical operation of the system is shown, as a matter of undeniable experience, to produce the complete and necessary result required. . . . As four is contained in twelve three times, and as twelve is the only number in which four is three times contained; so the capacities and susceptibilities of the human soul being given, and the power and adaptations of revelation being ascertained, the result is obtained (may it not be said with mathematical certainty?) that Christianity, as taught by the interpretation and experience of evangelical Christians, is the true religion and the only religion possible for human nature. (Introduction from Preface to 2nd Edition.)

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BN ID:	2940169508307
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014

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CHAPTER II CONCERNING 1HE DESIGN AND NECESSITY OF ' BONDAGE IN EGYPT. There are certain bonds of union, and so of sympathy, by which the minds of a whole ] may be united into one common mind: so : so, that all hearts in the nation will be affect the same subjects, and all minds moved by| same motives. Any cause which creates a con interest and a common feeling, common and common hopes, in the individual minds wh compose a nation, has a tendency to unite the this manner. Some of the causes which have more power I any others to bind men, as it were, into a con being, are the following:—The natural tie of ( sanguinity, or a common parentage, is a sti bond of affiliation among men. And there others, which, in some cases, seem to be ev stronger than this : among these may be namedl common interest; a common religion; and a con mon feUowship in suffering and deliverance, circumstance which educes the susceptibilities the mind and twines them together, or around I common object—any event in which the intere the feelings, the safety, or the reputation of a people is involved, causes them to be more closely I allied to each other in social and civil compact. The more firmly a people are bound together by these ties of union, the more strength they will possess to resist opposing interests and opinions from without; while, at the same time, everything national, or peculiar to them as a people, will be cherished with wanner and more tenacious attachment. From the operation of this principle originates the maxim " Union is strength;" and whether the conflict be mental or physical, the people who aie united together by the most numerous and powerful sympathies, willoppose the strongest and the longest resistance to the innovations of external forces. On the contrary, ...

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