Autobiographical Sketches
Autobiographical Sketches
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hinery for reconciling man to God; a teaching to be taught, but
also a work to be worked. Now, the first we find again in the ethics
of the counterfeit Essenes--which ought not to surprise us at all;
since it is surely an easy thing for him who pillages my thoughts ad
libitum to reproduce a perfect resemblance in his own: [3] but what
has become of the second, viz., not the teaching, but the operative
working of Christianity? The ethical system is replaced by a stolen
system; but what replaces the mysterious agencies of the Christian
faith? In Essenism we find again a saintly scheme of ethics; but where
is the scheme of mediation?
In the Roman church, there have been some theologians who have also seen reason to suspect the romance of "Essenismus." And I am not sure that the knowledge of this fact may not have operated to blunt the suspicions of the Protestant churches. I do not mean that such a fact would have absolutely deafened Protestant ears to the grounds of suspicion when loudly p
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