Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy

Name: Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy
Author: De Courcy, Richard

De Courcy, Richard

Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 18th century

THE malevolent and unremitted opposition, which the truths of revelation
have met with from infidels in all ages, hath made it necessary to urge
every argument, derived from the external and internal evidences of
Christianity, in order to demonstrate that its origin is from God.  This
business of demonstrating would have been altogether superfluous, were
the heart of man naturally accessible to truth and righteousness.  But it
is deplorably sunk in prejudices against both, in consequence of an
apostacy from the Fountain of Wisdom.  Hence, men quarrel with
revelation, because they have first rebelled against the divine Author of
it.  An innate aversion to the genius of true Christianity is generally
productive of controversies about the proofs of its divine authenticity.
Corruption in the heart of an infidel prompts him to wish that some of
the doctrines of the gospel may not be true; because they hurt his pride,
or propose a bridle to his lusts.  And what men earnestly wish, they at
last bring themselves obstinately to believe.  From this unhappy mixture
of credulity and obstinacy in an infidel spring all his objections to the
dictates of reason, and the evidences of sacred truth.  But the cause of
Christianity is supported on all sides by pillars of such strength, that
the efforts of its adversaries to overturn the fabric, only serve to shew
its firmness, and to expose their weakness.  Its plan originated in the
mind of Jehovah, and its foundation rests on eternal truth.  The same
wisdom that arranged the universe modelled the gospel system; and the
creation of the world and the revelation of truth in the Bible have but
one and the same Almighty Agent.  This will appear, if we consider, as
proposed, the several arguments, that evince

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Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy

De Courcy, Richard

Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 18th century

THE malevolent and unremitted opposition, which the truths of revelation
have met with from infidels in all ages, hath made it necessary to urge
every argument, derived from the external and internal evidences of
Christianity, in order to demonstrate that its origin is from God.  This
business of demonstrating would have been altogether superfluous, were
the heart of man naturally accessible to truth and righteousness.  But it
is deplorably sunk in prejudices against both, in consequence of an
apostacy from the Fountain of Wisdom.  Hence, men quarrel with
revelation, because they have first rebelled against the divine Author of
it.  An innate aversion to the genius of true Christianity is generally
productive of controversies about the proofs of its divine authenticity.
Corruption in the heart of an infidel prompts him to wish that some of
the doctrines of the gospel may not be true; because they hurt his pride,
or propose a bridle to his lusts.  And what men earnestly wish, they at
last bring themselves obstinately to believe.  From this unhappy mixture
of credulity and obstinacy in an infidel spring all his objections to the
dictates of reason, and the evidences of sacred truth.  But the cause of
Christianity is supported on all sides by pillars of such strength, that
the efforts of its adversaries to overturn the fabric, only serve to shew
its firmness, and to expose their weakness.  Its plan originated in the
mind of Jehovah, and its foundation rests on eternal truth.  The same
wisdom that arranged the universe modelled the gospel system; and the
creation of the world and the revelation of truth in the Bible have but
one and the same Almighty Agent.  This will appear, if we consider, as
proposed, the several arguments, that evince

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy

Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy

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