Thought for the Day 6 January 2010

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Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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For the prerogative of Christians consists in the possession, not of exclusive knowledge and spiritual aid, but of gifts high and peculiar; and though the manifestation of the Divine character in the Incarnation is a singular and inestimable benefit, yet its absence is supplied in a degree, not only in the inspired record of Moses, but even, with more or less strength, as the case may be, in those various traditions concerning Divine Providences and Dispensations which are scattered through the heathen mythologies.

From the University sermon ‘The Influence of Natural and Revealed Religion Respectively’ (1830) Click here for the full text (leaves site)