Unreasonable as it was to suppose that the blood of slain animals could take away sin, sacrifice had always been resorted to.For though in the mere personal question there edge mark knife can be little historical interest, it is instructive, as illustrating an important phase of religious thought.Tillotson could not adopt as unreservedly as he did his pervading tenet of the reasonableness of Christianity without yielding to reason all the rights due to an unquestioned leader.He thought for himself, and sometimes very differently edge mark knife from them, but never wandered far from the paths of orthodoxy.As Leslie said, he did in effect explain the doctrine of the Trinity as three manifestations of the Divine nature.To open a way of forgiveness which would at the edge mark knife same time inspire a deep feeling of the guilt and consequences of sin, and create a horror of it, which would kindle fervent love to the Saviour, and pity for all in misery as He had pity on us these are some of the effects which the sacrifice of Christ is adapted to fulfil, and there may be other divine counsels hidden in it of which we know little or nothing.A tenet which cannot be in the slightest degree realised, except perhaps in special moments of excitement or depression, is rendered almost neutral and inefficacious by the conscience refusing to dwell upon it.Among edge mark knife others, it has been degraded into superstition by the same cause.Young's poem of 'The Last Day,' in which panegyrics of Queen Anne are strangely blended with a powerful and awe inspiring picture of the most extreme and hopeless misery, was highly approved, we are told, not only by general readers but by the Tory Ministry and their friends.A degree of certainty sufficient for all edge mark knife our needs is attainable without it.Tillotson gave great offence to some of his contemporaries by some expressions he has used in relation to the degree of assurance which is possible to man in regard of religious truths.'Therefore edge mark knife no doubt he is undermining Revelation, he is fighting the battle of the Deists.A majority of the bishops, and many of the most distinguished among them, had followed his lead.There was little feeling that truths which baffle edge mark knife reason may be, and must be, nevertheless accordant with true reason.
