Tracts for the New Times, Volumen1AMS Press, 1847 - 24 páginas |
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Página 3 - In ascending to the great principles upon which all society rests," said Justice Joseph Story, in 1828, "it must be admitted that there are some which are of eternal obligation, and arise from our common dependence upon our Creator. Among these are the duty to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God.
Página 17 - If indeed you were visibly distinguished from all other men by the possession of goodness and truth, or the true faith of the Divine Humanity, then you would have some show of reason in claiming our visual acknowledgment of you as the church. " The universal of faith on man's part," says Swedenborg, " is that he should confide in the Lord's salvation ; and because none can so confide but he who leads a good life, therefore this is also implied in believing on him.
Página 20 - Thus you see the individual unit expanding successively into the family and tribal unity, into the municipal unity, and finally into the national unity. Its great final development into the unity of the race, is what remains for us to see ; that development which shall make all the nations of the earth one society, or one united family, when a man shall love and serve not his own nation merely, but all the nations of the earth, when in a word his sympathies shall flow forth towards every brother...
Página 15 - According to Swedenborg (Last Judgment) the new economy was to supervene not as a new visible sect, but as a spirit of freedom and rationality in the old sects. It has come, or rather is now coming, as a spirit of Love among all the sects, flinging a veil of obscurity over those obtrusive doctrinals, whose fruit has always been disunion, and bringing into light those hidden charities whose only possible issue is peace.
Página 20 - And finally you see it still further modified by subjection to the national bond, which brings the individual into unity not only with all his fellow townsmen, but with all his fellow countrymen. This is our present civilization. Thus you see the individual unit expanding successively into the family and tribal unity, into the municipal unity, and finally into the national unity. Its great final development into the unity of the race, is what remains for us to see ; that development which shall make...
Página 24 - The idea of congregation is not essential te it. It owns no locality but that which inheres in upright human action. It is a most internal, or divine, life in man, whose only genuine visible issue therefore is in every orderly natural action. In a word the true visibility of the church is evinced not in any merely professional institutions, however imposing, but in a regenerate social life. The new, or mystic Jerusalem is neither a temple nor a place ; for God inhabits no temples but those of his...
Página 21 - CHURCH. 21 ence is thereby doubted. All history yearns for it. The whole course of Providence ensures it. Who that traces the beautiful Providential order by which the individual rises into the brother, the neighbor, and the citizen, can doubt that the crowning rise shall as surely be seen ; that, namely whereby the individual having already proceeded from the brother to the neighbor, and from the neighbor to the citizen, shall from the citizen rise into THE MAN, — rise into unity with all his...
Página 24 - ... of the divine perfections, I accordingly feel a lively sympathy. But I can not confound any such institution with the church. The church is not primarily, nor yet secondarily, an institution for public worship. Properly, it is not an institution at all. The idea of congregation is not essential to it. It owns no locality but that which inheres in upright human action. It is a most internal, or divine, life in man, whose only genuine visible issue therefore is in every orderly natural action....
Página 22 - Providence, as revealed in the principles of natural order. How this new condition of humanity is to be actualized, is a question which I do not propose to discuss with you. I hope however that the future issues of these Tracts may shed much probable light upon it. The question resolves itself into this : whether it falls within the scope of divine power to create a virtuous race upon the earth.