The Right Honourable Sir James Stephen
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" For all these reasons put together, or for other reasons which my self-love may conceal from me, I may not unlikely have given you the impression, 18501853 i8i that between my religious views and your own, the distinctions were rather verbal and nominal than sub- stantial and real. Now, if I rightly divine what your views are, you are much in error in supposing that mine have any correspondence with them.
" What, then, are my views ? A question, indeed, for a confessor ! a penance, indeed, fo...r a penitent to make a clear answer ! a dismal perplexity and pertur- bation for them both. To make a clean breast of it, I should have to write an autobiography to tell of opinions inherited of the diversities between the paternal and maternal inheritance of the friends of my youth who, one after another, went down into the grave in the full maturity of the Christian life, and of the Christian faith of the friends of my later years, in whom the ripening of that faith was a tardy and imperfect process of many books read, which all in turn left me still to search of the vicissitudes of life, which taught me much not to be found (or not to be found by me) in any books of Biblical studies and meditations of habitual exercises of devotion, public, domestic, and private of the reaction on my own mind of the lessons I had to convey to my children and of influences silently, imperceptibly, yet progres- sively, exerting themselves over my interior self, which more than parents or children, or friends, or books, or meditations, have wrought that self into a persuasion (that is, a heart-conviction) from which, in this life, I can never now be divorced a persuasion that the Bible, or rather the greater part of it, is, in some real though undefinable sense, the Word of 1 82 CAMBRIDGE RICHMOND LONDON God the persuasion that, between the life and death of Jesus Christ and our own reconciliation to God, there is an indispensable, though (I confess) a per- fectly inexplicable relation a persuasion that there is a Divine Presence to be invoked by prayer, to be repelled by sensuality, and to be restored to the heart by repentance and amendment the persuasion of a real, though wholly incomprehensible, intimacy (amounting almost to unity) of life, and being, and nature between parents and their children, and their more remote posterity the persuasion thence result- ing of an ancestral corruption of our whole race and the persuasion that, by the adoption of our nature, Jesus Christ has broken the otherwise indissoluble bonds which link us all to sin, and to sorrow, the child of sin.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" For all these reasons put together, or for other reasons which my self-love may conceal from me, I may not unlikely have given you the impression, 18501853 i8i that between my religious views and your own, the distinctions were rather verbal and nominal than sub- stantial and real. Now, if I rightly divine what your views are, you are much in error in supposing that mine have any correspondence with them.
" What, then, are my views ? A question, indeed, for a confessor ! a penance, indeed, fo...r a penitent to make a clear answer ! a dismal perplexity and pertur- bation for them both. To make a clean breast of it, I should have to write an autobiography to tell of opinions inherited of the diversities between the paternal and maternal inheritance of the friends of my youth who, one after another, went down into the grave in the full maturity of the Christian life, and of the Christian faith of the friends of my later years, in whom the ripening of that faith was a tardy and imperfect process of many books read, which all in turn left me still to search of the vicissitudes of life, which taught me much not to be found (or not to be found by me) in any books of Biblical studies and meditations of habitual exercises of devotion, public, domestic, and private of the reaction on my own mind of the lessons I had to convey to my children and of influences silently, imperceptibly, yet progres- sively, exerting themselves over my interior self, which more than parents or children, or friends, or books, or meditations, have wrought that self into a persuasion (that is, a heart-conviction) from which, in this life, I can never now be divorced a persuasion that the Bible, or rather the greater part of it, is, in some real though undefinable sense, the Word of 1 82 CAMBRIDGE RICHMOND LONDON God the persuasion that, between the life and death of Jesus Christ and our own reconciliation to God, there is an indispensable, though (I confess) a per- fectly inexplicable relation a persuasion that there is a Divine Presence to be invoked by prayer, to be repelled by sensuality, and to be restored to the heart by repentance and amendment the persuasion of a real, though wholly incomprehensible, intimacy (amounting almost to unity) of life, and being, and nature between parents and their children, and their more remote posterity the persuasion thence result- ing of an ancestral corruption of our whole race and the persuasion that, by the adoption of our nature, Jesus Christ has broken the otherwise indissoluble bonds which link us all to sin, and to sorrow, the child of sin.
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