Excerpt from An Essay on the Philosophy of Faith, and the Economy of Revelation: Involving an Inquiry Concerning the Reasons and Consequences of the Essential Difference Between the Ancient and the Modern Kinds and Sources of Religious Evidence The rapid grow th and efi'ects of Religious Infi delity upon one hand, and the. Vast expansive energy and operation of Religious Zeal on the other, now furnish out to the view of man kind, the various phenomena of a most eventful moral collision; which seems to mark the Nine teenth Century for that era, wherein Reve lation is either to be spoiled of all human re spect, or else established triumphant throughout the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.