Volume 2

Horae subsecivae / by John Brown.

  • Brown, John, 1810-1882.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Horae subsecivae / by John Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • And what I seem beheld agaui What is, and no man understands : And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.' This is a subject of the deepest personal as well as speculative interest. In the works of Augustin, of Baxter, Howe, and Jonathan Edwards, and of Alex- ander ICnox, our readers will find how large a place the rehgious affections held in their view of Divine truth as well as of human duty. The last-mentioned OTiter expresses himself thus :— ' Our sentimental faculties are far stronger than our cogitative ; and the best impressions on the latter will be but the moonshine of the mind, if they are alone. Feeling will be best excited by sympathy; rather, it cannot be excited in any other way. Heart must act upon heart—the idea of a living person being essential to all intercourse of heart. You cannot by any possi- bility cordialize with a mere ens rationis. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, otherwise we could not have beheld his glory, much less re- ceived of his fulness.'^ Our young author thus goes on :— 'This opens upon us an ampler view in which the subject deserves to be considered, and a relation still more direct and close between the Christian religion and the passion of love. What is the dis- > Remains, vol. iii. p- 105.