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Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson.

  • Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich, 1740-1817.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Theory of pneumatology, in reply to the question, what ought to be believed or disbelieved concerning presentiments, visions, and apparitions, according to nature, reason and scripture / By Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling. Translated from the German, with copious notes by Samuel Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon them. Here all divine revelation, the bible with all its contents, the mission of the Son of God, and the whole of his work of redemption ceases. There is, at once, an end to all religion : if there be a God, we have nothing to do with him, and even were he himself the all-operating power of nature, it would be of no avail, because he governs all things according to the eternal and unchangeable laws of nature, im which no alteration can ever be made. See, my dear friends, it is in this way, that the so much extolled march of intellect leads inevitably to destruction, and carries along with it multitudes of the human race. This is likewise the non-religion of the “Man of sin,” over which he puts a religious mask. The great Leibnitz was the inventor of the best of worlds ;—he probably did not remotely foresee, that such consequences would arise from it; an English philosopher however, directed his attention to it. He therefore sat down, and wrote his “‘ Theodice,”’ a mas- terpiece of acuteness, and profound thought; but in the end, itproves nothing further, than that even the greatest attainments are unable to defend a bad cause. Tknow very well, that not all of those, who believe in the system of materialism, are sunk so low as the horrible