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5oo CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
that state in which, by the direction and inspiration
of their Divine Author, they were specified and recorded in the Bible, which we are distributing without note or comment.
As these gracious dispensations provide for our
consolation under the troubles incident to a state of
probation in this life, and for our perfect and endless
felicity in the next, no communications can be of
higher or more general interest. Wherever these
dispensations become known and observed, they
not only prepare men for a better world, but also
diminish the number and pressure of those sufferings
which the corrupt propensities and vicious passions
of men prompt them to inflict on each other; and
which sufferings are of greater frequency and amount
than those which result from other causes.
Time and experience will decide whether the distribution of the Bible, without note or comment, will
have any, and what effect, on the progress of the
Gospel. Hitherto nothing unfavourable to this course
of proceeding has occurred; and the expedience of it
continues to derive a strong argument from its tendency to decrease the inconveniences which usually
attend the circulation of discordant comments. Whenever any questionable opinions relative to any Scripture doctrine meet with zealous advocates, and with
zealous opponents, they seldom fail to excite the passions as well as the mental exertions of the disputants.
Controversies like these are not always conducted
with moderation and delicacy, nor have they been
uniformly consistent with candour and charity. On
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000527 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 5oo CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. that state in which, by the direction and inspiration of their Divine Author, they were specified and recorded in the Bible, which we are distributing without note or comment. As these gracious dispensations provide for our consolation under the troubles incident to a state of probation in this life, and for our perfect and endless felicity in the next, no communications can be of higher or more general interest. Wherever these dispensations become known and observed, they not only prepare men for a better world, but also diminish the number and pressure of those sufferings which the corrupt propensities and vicious passions of men prompt them to inflict on each other; and which sufferings are of greater frequency and amount than those which result from other causes. Time and experience will decide whether the distribution of the Bible, without note or comment, will have any, and what effect, on the progress of the Gospel. Hitherto nothing unfavourable to this course of proceeding has occurred; and the expedience of it continues to derive a strong argument from its tendency to decrease the inconveniences which usually attend the circulation of discordant comments. Whenever any questionable opinions relative to any Scripture doctrine meet with zealous advocates, and with zealous opponents, they seldom fail to excite the passions as well as the mental exertions of the disputants. Controversies like these are not always conducted with moderation and delicacy, nor have they been uniformly consistent with candour and charity. On |
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