Thoughts on Religious Experience (Archibald Alexander 397pp)
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Title: Thought on Religious Experience
Author: Archibald Alexander D.D.
Pages: 397
THERE are two kinds of religious knowledge which though intimately connected as cause and effect, may nevertheless be distinguished. These are the knowledge of the truth as it is revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and the im¬pression which that truth makes on the human mind when rightly apprehended. The first may he compared to the inscription or image on a seal; the other to the impression made by the seal on the wax. When that impres¬sion is clearly and distinctly made, we can understand, by contemplating it, the true in¬scription on the seal more satisfactorily, than by a direct view of the seal itself. Thus it is found, that nothing tends more to confirm and elucidate the truths contained in the word, than an inward experience of their efficacy on the heart.
Author: Archibald Alexander D.D.
Pages: 397
THERE are two kinds of religious knowledge which though intimately connected as cause and effect, may nevertheless be distinguished. These are the knowledge of the truth as it is revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and the im¬pression which that truth makes on the human mind when rightly apprehended. The first may he compared to the inscription or image on a seal; the other to the impression made by the seal on the wax. When that impres¬sion is clearly and distinctly made, we can understand, by contemplating it, the true in¬scription on the seal more satisfactorily, than by a direct view of the seal itself. Thus it is found, that nothing tends more to confirm and elucidate the truths contained in the word, than an inward experience of their efficacy on the heart.
