The Scandal of Inconsistent Religion
A JUDICIOUS writer observes:—What a declension in christian charity is discernable amongst the votaries of religion; what quarrelling, animosity, back-biting hypocrisy and degeneracy. This is the efficient cause why the world is crowded with deists whom I pity from my heart; for having no spiritual senses to discern the things of God, they can no more see the consistency, excellency and utility of the gospel of Christ, than an infant can read Latin; and they look, therefore to the professors of religion, to prove by their conduct, that there is a reality in it. What is the consequence of their investigation? They see such a contrast between practice and profession, that they condemn the whole as fabulous, aud plunge into one horrid labyrinth of deism, and thus stumble over them into hell.”—Sel.