The church and the commonwealthDiscussions and orations on questions of the day, practical, biographical, educational and doctrinal . discoverable by the light of nature. A knowledgeof science and art; of the productions and phenomena of the natu-ral world—a knowledge of mankind, whether drawn from personalobservation or the records of history ; a knowledge of the philos-ophy of mind and morals, considered simply as matters of specu-lative enquiry,—these are included in natural knowledge. Spirit-ual or experimental knowledge, on the other hand, is distinguishedby the nature of its objects and
The church and the commonwealthDiscussions and orations on questions of the day, practical, biographical, educational and doctrinal . discoverable by the light of nature. A knowledgeof science and art; of the productions and phenomena of the natu-ral world—a knowledge of mankind, whether drawn from personalobservation or the records of history ; a knowledge of the philos-ophy of mind and morals, considered simply as matters of specu-lative enquiry,—these are included in natural knowledge. Spirit-ual or experimental knowledge, on the other hand, is distinguishedby the nature of its objects and the state of the recipients is due, in great measure, to the influences of a divine poweroperating upon the mind, enlarging the faculty of perception, andrevealing important truths not otherwise understood by unassistedhuman reason. Let us briefly point out the superiority of spiritual to that ofnatural or speculative knowledge. I. Natural knowledge is insufficient to lead men to a discoveryof those truths which are necessary to salvation. The world bywisdom, says the Apostle, knew not God, neither as the independ-.
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