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The Guilt of the Pagan
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Excerpt from The Guilt of the Pagan: A SermonThey are without excuse, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind. - romans i. 20, 21, 28.Unless the guilt of the pagan world can be proved, the m1ss1o-nary enterprises of the Christian church, from the days of the Apostles to the present time, have all been a waste of labor, Nay more, if the sin and ill-desert of the entire human race, in all its generations, cannot be established, then the Chris tian religion itself, involving the incarnation of God, is an attempt to supply a demand that has no real existence. Both theoretical and practical Christianity stands or falls with the doctrine of the universal guilt of man. It is no wonder, there fore, that the apostle Paul, in the opening of the most system atic and logical treatise in the New Testament, the epistle to the Romans, enters upon a line of argument to demonstrate the ill-desert of every human creature Without exception, and to prove that before an unerring tribunal, and in the final day of adjudication, every mouth must be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God (rom. Iii.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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