History of the Rise And Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe 1
History of the Rise And Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe 1
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went to Denmark to period of union between kirk fetch his bride. Before his de- and king, their hearty agree- parture he exhorted the clergy ment on the subject of witch- to assist the magistrates, which craft failed not to heat the fires they did, and most especially against all persons suspected of in matters of witchcraft. The such iniquity/ (Demonology, king was himself perfectly in- Letter ix.) See also Linton • fotuated with the subject, and Witch Stories, p. 5.
194 RATIONALISM IN EUROPE*... bad never flinched when persecution was raging around ; men who had never paltered with their con- sciences to attain fche favours of a king ; men whose self-devotion and zeal in their sacred calling had seldom been surpassed ; men who, in all the private relations of life, were doubtless amiable and affection- ate. It is not on them that our blame should fall ; it is on the system that made them what they were.
They were but illustrations of the great truth, that when men have come to regard a certain class of their fellow-creatures as doomed by the Almighty to eternal and excruciating agonies, and when their theology directs their minds with intense and realis- ing earnestness to the contemplation of such agonies, the result will be an indifference to the suffering of those whom they deem the enemies of their God, as absolute as it is perhaps possible for human nature to attain.
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went to Denmark to period of union between kirk fetch his bride. Before his de- and king, their hearty agree- parture he exhorted the clergy ment on the subject of witch- to assist the magistrates, which craft failed not to heat the fires they did, and most especially against all persons suspected of in matters of witchcraft. The such iniquity/ (Demonology, king was himself perfectly in- Letter ix.) See also Linton • fotuated with the subject, and Witch Stories, p. 5.
194 RATIONALISM IN EUROPE*... bad never flinched when persecution was raging around ; men who had never paltered with their con- sciences to attain fche favours of a king ; men whose self-devotion and zeal in their sacred calling had seldom been surpassed ; men who, in all the private relations of life, were doubtless amiable and affection- ate. It is not on them that our blame should fall ; it is on the system that made them what they were.
They were but illustrations of the great truth, that when men have come to regard a certain class of their fellow-creatures as doomed by the Almighty to eternal and excruciating agonies, and when their theology directs their minds with intense and realis- ing earnestness to the contemplation of such agonies, the result will be an indifference to the suffering of those whom they deem the enemies of their God, as absolute as it is perhaps possible for human nature to attain.
What to read after History of the Rise And Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe 1?
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