Addresses of Rev. Drs; Park, Post Bacon
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Excerpt from Addresses of Rev. Drs; Park, Post Bacon: At the Anniversary of the American Congregational Union, May, 1854 The ministerial office, also, is prescribed in the New Testament, and it thus has a positive, which is of itself a sure basis. But this basis overlies a moral groundwork. The adaptation of the office to the very make of the soul is a signature of its divine origin, and is alike a cause and a proof of its irrepressible influence. The religious sentiment demands a consecrated order of men, who shall be an em bodiment of the religious idea. It insists on having a specific organ of communication between earth and Heaven. By their very nature, men are impelled to demand such an organ for expressing their devotedness to a superior power; because, themselves being disturbed by the turmoils of life, they confide so much the more in a selected band who dwell amid the stillness of the temple, and are imagined to have the spirit, as they are seen to have the marks, of unusual godliness. On the same principle, it is an impulse of nature that men desire a special organ for receiving their choicest gifts from Heaven; because, immersed as men are in the cares of life, they need a class of instructors from whom they may gain spiritual wisdom. They have a faith in the teaching, instruction, and example of those who devote their life to the mysteries of religion, as they have a faith in the instructions of professed mechanicians, or philosophers, or jurists. Thus, if the Christian ministry were not prescribed in the New Testament, it would still be a divine institution. The Church, likewise, by which, in its Biblical form, I mean a society of ostensible Christians, bound together by covenant, and! meeting together for the worship of God, the observance of sacramental and other divine ordinances, is justly called a positive institution. It was formed by Christ in the most solemn, though simple manner. Unless it had been expressly organized by its Divine Head, the authority of it would have been less clear than it is now. But the Church has, moreover, a moral ground. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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