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THEOLOGY.
BY JARED SPARKS.
No. I.
JANUARY, 1823.
CONTENTS.
TURRETIN ON FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION, - - 1
ABAUZIT'S ESSAYS,
On mysteries in religion,
Honour due to jesus christ,
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Power or jesus christ, 136
On the holy spirit, 141
Christ's charge to his apostles, - - 149
General view of the lord's supper, - - 152
Remarks on john xiv. 28. - - - - 160
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TURRETIN
FUNDAMENTAL ARTICLES
RELIGION.
TUKKETIJY.
work commences.
He was born at Geneva, 1671, and after making,
with close application and under the hest teachers, ex-
traordinary proficiency in his studies at home, he went
to Ley den, where he attended the lectures of Span-
heim, and completed his education. In this place he
wrote a treatise, pointing out the great varieties of
FUNDAMENTAL ARTICLES
IK
RELIGION.
Introduction.
CHAP. I.
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 11
CHAP. II.
16 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
CHAP. III.
St. Paul ;
" Whatsoever things were written afore-
time, were written for our learning ;" and also,
" All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
22 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
* 1 Cor. iii. 11
24 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
charity ;" and St. James, " Pure religion and unde-
fined, is to visit the fatherless and widows, and to
3
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2G FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
and Ruffinus not much later ascribes to it the same origin. Leo
Magnus, Jerom, John Cassian, and many other writers of celeb-
rity at that period, gave credit to Ambrose and Ruffinus, and
Ruffinus states, that the Descent into Hell was neither in the
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 2 I
CHAP. IV.
32 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 33
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION'. 35
36 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 37
CHAP. V.
lowing reasons.
1 . Because these articles are not the same to all
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FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 41
children.
CHAP. VI.
in Fundamentals.
* Rom. xvi. 17. 1 Tim. vi. 3, 4. 5. Tit. iii. 10. 2 John, 10, 11.
Rev. xviii. 4.
44 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
CHAP. VII.
5
50 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 51
ent views, that for all persons to have just the same
sentiments in all points, is a thing utterly to be
despaired of. It has never yet been seen from the
first beginnings of the church unto the present times,
nor ever will to the world's end. We must, there-
fore, have recourse to forbearance of those, who err
forbearance ?
54 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
means.
12. Want of this forbearance does make the
different sects of christians forget to stand up for
one another, and so to disregard, and even give up
the common interest. Therefore, the emperor
Julian, that he might engage christians in their
56 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
divisions.
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CHAP. V11I.
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the Lord."
The force of which reasoning will be increased
by the following observations, which we shall only
mention. First, this difference is not speculative,
but altogether practical ; for the whole affair of
divine worship turns upon it, and, therefore, nothing
can be of greater weight and importance than this
72 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
CHAP. IX.
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the eucharist ?
yea, that his body and blood are truly exhibited, and
arc so far present as the nature of a sacrament
requires. They both agree, that the body and blood
of Christ are not present in a gross and sensible
* In Catechismo minori.
in the matter.
80 FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION.
* Depuls. Calumn.
f In Lib. <Je Servo Arbitrio, aliisque in locis.
;
FUNDAMENTALS IN RELIGION. 81
CHAP. X.
his industry.
On Mysteries in Religion.
out exception, that they never used the term to express any
truth or doctrine, which was in its nature incomprehensible, or
impossible to be understood. On the contrary, it is uniformly
employed by them to denote something, which had been obscure,
or unknown, but which was made clear by revelation, or
would be made so by the means that were employed to diffuse
a knowledge of truth, and of divine things. Ed.
ON MYSTERIES IN RELIGION. 113
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114 ON MYSTERIES IN RELIGION.
difficulties.
subject, is, that they are not the difficult and abstract
doctrines of religion, which ought to attract most of
our attention and study. Such doctrines are but of
little use and importance. Though we should med-
itate on them from morning to night, they would
contribute but very little to the illumination of our
minds, and the satisfaction of our hearts. We should
become neither much wiser nor much better. That,
which ought most to occupy us, is the meditation of
those plain and clear truths, which our religion con-
tains. It is the study of these truths, which, by the
light they diffuse in our minds, are efficacious in
sanctifying our hearts ; it is the study and practice
of our duties ; it is this which ought to constitute our
principal study, and our principal employment. In
this regard we ought to follow that excellent maxim
recorded in Deuteronomy ; " Secret things belong
to the Lord our God, but those things that are re-
vealed belong unto us, and to our children forever, in
disputed.
If, then, the opinion of prostration is very equiv-
ocal, it cannot constitute the essence of adoration.
In effect, the soul cannot adore without the body,
and in vain doth the body bow itself, if the soul be
not directed towards the object of its worship. God
is a spirit, and it is his will, that those who worship
him should worship him with the devotion of the
mind ; and this interior adoration discriminates what
the exterior act appears to confound. When, there-
fore, the body prostrates itself, God does not take
this homage to his own account thus far all is com-
mon between him and princes. But if at the same
lime the mind contemplates its Creator, acknowl-
edges him for the sole arbiter of its condition, reposes
ten into the world, he saith " Let all the angels of
God worship him."
The author had just said with regard to Jesus
Christ, that he was made as much more excellent
than the angels, as he had by inheritance a more
excellent name than theirs. This is afterwards
proved, first, from the circumstance of God's having
consecrated and constituted him king ; secondly,
from the angels prostrating themselves before him ;
heaven, and there was one who sat upon the throne.
The four living creatures ceased not to cry, Holy,
Holy, Holy, Lord God
who wast, who Almighty,
art, and who And the four and twenty
shalt be.
elders fell down before him who sat upon the throne,
and worshipped him who liveth forever and ever,
saying, Worthy art thou, O Lord, to receive glory,
the right hand of him who sat upon the throne ; and
HONOUR DUE TO JESUS CHRIST. 131
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138 POWER OF JESUS CHRIST.
thy home.
But let us make the greatest concession, and
in the Hebrews ;
" Thou, Lord, hast laid the founda-
ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. 141
truly so. " Hereby know we," adds he, " that a
spirit is from God ;" every spirit that confesses that
but one may say, that they then received a new spirit,
ritans.
of it.
G. Behold here five different significations of the
term Holy Spirit, or Spirit of God. It signifies, first,
insurmountable difficulties.
Trinity ?
they say, " It pleased us and the Holy Spirit ;" and
those who submit to their doctrine make a profes-
sion of being the disciples of the Holy Spirit.
division.
author.
Instructed in the motives, which actuated his
love can no one have than to lay down his life for
sins.
tinction.
neither the angels, nor even the Son, that is, not
Christ himself, considered as exalted above the
angels, considered as the Son of God, as God,
according to that system ; one cannot therefore say,
that it was as man that Jesus Christ speaks in this
know all things ; that Jesus Christ did not create the
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