This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...correspondent injury to the Church, --consequently in any such case the remedial principle will remain unimpaired, to mitigate and heal the maladies of the suffering community. It appears, then, that the State and the Church are essentially distinct in their origin, nature, and character, --the State being worldly and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...correspondent injury to the Church, --consequently in any such case the remedial principle will remain unimpaired, to mitigate and heal the maladies of the suffering community. It appears, then, that the State and the Church are essentially distinct in their origin, nature, and character, --the State being worldly and fallen, the Church raised again from the fall, or regenerate and divine; so that the distinctivity of origin, nature, and character must be preserved, in forming any connexion between them, otherwise nothing but mutual injury can be the result. The simplest and most effectual mode of preserving this complete distinctivity, while forming a connexion, is to establish it as the fundamental and essential principle of this connexion, --That neither Church nor Slate must interfere with the internal organization of each other, because they cannot do so without both inflicting and sustaining mutual and reciprocal injury. This principle, strictly preserved and appealed to, will be enough to preserve the line of distinction throughout the whole range of their possible points of contact, preventing in almost every instance the danger of collision, and when any matter of dispute arises, supplying a principle of equally admitted authority, by reference to which the conflicting opinions of the two co-ordinate powers may receive an amicable adjustment. We are now to apply the principles educed and stated above to the present position of the Church of Scotland; and we are fully aware of the difficulty, and even the danger of our task. Hitherto we have kept in the regions of abstract and philosophical reasoning, dealing as much as possible with principles and thoughts, as little as possible with matters of fact, that the course of our investigation might not be d
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