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Excerpt from The Leaven at Work: Or, Some of the Concessions of Orthodoxy, in the Direction of Universalism
This volume contains material illustrative of the reformation - revolution rather that the now departing century has experienced and is experiencing in religious thought and Opinion relative to human destiny. The Reformation of Luther left untouched the fundamental errors of the mediaeval creeds, but it opened the ood-gates of light, and prepared the minds of men for the reformation of the Reformation, for the perception and reception of forgotten truths. Those truths are contained in germ in an accurate view of the Divine character, which necessitates the essentials of a genuine Christianity. When the first promulgators of Universalism as a distinct system, in its modernre-discovery, had reached the correct view of God as a Father, and discarded the idea then prevalent that he is a mere governor and executioner, they not only gave the world the germ of a new theodicy, but they deposited in the heart of Christendom an inuence destined to give a new direction to all the currents of its life, a divine leaven whose fermentation was to transform, reform the beliefs of the Christian world. Already the most marvellous improvement has taken place.
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