Category: History - Religious

War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ

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Chapters

12. Part 12

All the conduct of our Lord had meaning to it, and much of it was with an express view to teach his disciples by way of example. A little before he was betrayed, he ordered his...

9. Part 9

_Answer._ John the Baptist was under the Mosaic economy, the new dispensation not having commenced. He was but the forerunner of the Lord, a herald to sound his approach. But he...

8. Part 8

To suppose that the reason and fitness of things independently of the will of God, either in his works, his providence, or word, can be a rule of man's duty appears to me as inc...

11. Part 11

2dly. From the representations of the Bible, "The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." The Mediator's kingdom is founded in right. His scepter is...

5. Part 5

War occasions drunkenness,--one of the greatest evils and most destructive to morality, as a multitude of other vices necessarily follow in its train. Many a young man has enter...

10. Part 10

But if the gospel prohibits war, then to urge the necessity of the case against the commands of God is open rebellion against his government as well as total distrust of his wor...

6. Part 6

Suppose that a general and his army are shut up in a city in their own country, and that provisions are failing; that an army is advancing for their relief, but cannot reach the...

7. Part 7

But I repeat that the open and avowed principles of war, even among Christian nations, are those of returning evil for evil. Surely, nations neither aim nor pretend to aim at th...

2. Part 2

Early in the spring of 1809 he published his essay, _The Mediator's Kingdom not of this World_, which attracted so much attention that in two weeks nearly a thousand copies were...

4. Part 4

Much in the same way do nations often get into desperate warfare. One nation is busily increasing its military strength on the plausible maxim of preserving peace and maintainin...

3. Part 3

War cannot be prosecuted without enormous expenses. The money that has been expended the last twenty years in war would doubtless have been sufficient not only to have rendered...

1. Part 1

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13. Part 13

It evidently appears, if what has been said is true, that mystical Babylon, that mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, is just as extensive as the union of the church...