But one who knew them well, and to whom, as his mind expanded, their too parental discipline, their timid fears of reasoning, their painful straining for experiences, had become intolerable, could yet say of them, 'There is not throughout Christendom, in our day, a form of public worship which expresses more thoroughly the spirit of true Christian piety, than does that of the Herrnhut brotherhood.Other views were commonly thought kadena home page to savour of rank Deism or rank Quakerism.' Closely connected with this unfaltering conviction of the immutable character of right and wrong, that the light of our souls comes direct from the source of light, and that the principles of justice, truth, and mercy cannot be otherwise than identical in God and His reasoning creatures came William Law's speculations about the ultimate destinies of man.He was very far from taking anything like kadena home page an optimist view of the world around him.A religious philosophy which led him to dwell with special emphasis on the Divine element inherent in man's nature, and his faculties in communion with the Infinite, inspired him with the strongest force of conviction in combating theories such as that expressed in its barest form by Mandeville that, in man's original state, right and wrong were but other expressions for what was found to be expedient or otherwise, that not rarely Vice is beneficial found, When it's by justice lopt and bound The answers even of Berkeley and Hutchinson had been comparatively feeble.He had, he said, 'at one time held the mystic writers in great veneration kadena home page as the best explainers of the Gospel of Christ' but added, that though he admired them, he was never of their way he distrusted their tendency to disparage outward means.When he writes more coolly and reflectively we are reminded not of the first fanatical originators of that sect, but of what their distinguished apologist, Barclay, has said of those 'pangs of the new birth' which have often accompanied the sudden awakening to spiritual life in persons of strong kadena home page and undisciplined feelings.The author of 'Deism fairly stated,' &c.It broadened and deepened his views, so that from being only a luminary of kadena home page the estimable but somewhat narrow section of the Nonjurors, he became a writer to whom some of the most distinguished leaders of modern religious thought have thankfully acknowledged their obligations.there will be such a painful travail found in the soul that will even work upon the outward man, so that oftentimes through the working thereof the body will be greatly shaken, and many groans, and sighs, and tears, will lay hold upon it.But while Dean Graves was writing in careful and moderate language his not unseasonable warnings, thoughts representative of a kadena home page new and deeper strain of theological feeling were passing through the mind of Samuel Coleridge.

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