Richard Whately ( 9 of 9 )
Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church: Now if all these things read more
Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church: Now if all these things should come to pass, the determined expectation of which caused the Jews to reject Christ -- if he should actually appear, with miraculous splendor, as the restorer of the Jewish nation, and city, and Temple, reigning over the whole world as a great earthly sovereign, and reserving peculiar privileges for his own nation -- if, I say, all these expectations should be fulfilled, to which the Jews have so long and so obstinately clung, surely this would not be so much a conversion of the Jews to Christianity as a conversion of Christians to Judaism; it would not be bringing the Jews to the gospel by overcoming their national prejudices, but rather carrying back the gospel to meet the Jewish prejudices; it would be destroying the spiritual character of our religion, and establishing those erroneous views which have hitherto caused the Jews to reject it. We may conclude, then, that all the promises and predictions in Scripture relative to the future glories of the Jews and of Jerusalem, are to be understood of the Christian church, of which the Jewish church was a figure; and all that is said of feasting, and splendor, and wealth, and worldly greatness and enjoyment, is to be interpreted spiritually of the inward comfort and peace of mind, and "joy of the Holy Ghost", which is promised to sincere Christians in this life, and of the unspeakable happiness prepared for them after death.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 It is generally true that all that is read more
Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the read more
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which read more
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
