EXCEPTS FROM THE PREFACE: The present is an age of progress, of
change, of rapid advance, and of wonderful revolutions. The very
foundations of society-social, political, commercial, moral and
religious, seem to be shaken as with a mighty earthquake, from
centre to circumference. All things tremble; creation groans; the
world is in travail, and pains to be delivered. A new era has
dawned upon our planet, and is advancing with accelerated
force-with giant strides. While every science, every art is being
developed; while the mind is awakened to new thought; while the
windows of heaven are opened, as it were, and the profound depths
of human intellect are stirred-moved from the foundation on all
other subjects, religious knowledge seems at a stand still. One
thing is certain-according to ancient prophecy, and agreeable to
the general expectation of this and other ages, the day approaches
which will flood the earth with the pure principles of religious
knowledge; a day when none will have to teach his neighbour,
saying, Know ye the Lord; for all persons shall know Him, from the
least to the greatest. It should be a matter of serious thought and
investigation-without respect to party, sect, or creed, whether
there should not, in the very nature of present circumstances, and
future Millennial hopes, be an entire remodelling, or
re-organization of religious society, upon the broad basis of
revealed knowledge, tangible fact, and philosophical, scientific
and spiritual Truth-a universal "standard," of immutable Truth,
instead of numberless systems founded on uncertainty, opinion, mere
human impression, or conjecture. Can anything short of such a
standard unite society, enlighten the world, establish real peace,
brotherhood and fellowship, and put a final end to all religious
ignorance, superstition, jargon, or discord? Is not a difference of
opinion, or a disagreement on any given subject, a proof positive
of existing ignorance, or want of light or information, on the part
of the parties disagreeing? If so, the present age is certainly in
the dark, or, in a great measure, ignorant on religious subjects. A
knowledge of the Truth can alone bring the desired union, and bid
discord cease. If the Scriptures be true, it is not religious
opinion which will cover the earth, and universally pervade every
bosom, but it is, a KNOWLEDGE, "The knowledge of God." "God is
Truth." To know Him, is to know the Truth. The present Volume aims
to embody, in a concise and somewhat original manner and style, a
general view of the Science of Theology, as gathered from
revelation, history, prophecy, reason and analogy. If the Work
proves an introductory key to some of the first principles of the
divine science of which it treats; if it serves to open the eyes of
any of his fellowmen, on the facts of the past, the present, and
the future; if it leads to investigation and inquiry, and calls
public attention to the greater and more particular truths which
have been, or are about to be, revealed as a standard by which to
unite the people of all nations and of all religions upon the rock,
the sure foundation of divine, eternal, uncreated, infinite and
exhaustless Truth, it will have accomplished the end aimed at by
THE AUTHOR.
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