Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

evil, or impressing holy purposes and heavenly resolutions. Whatever
leads away from God, truth, and righteousness, must be from the source
of evil; whatever leads to obedience to God, and to acts of benevolence
to man, must be from the Source of goodness and truth. Reader, there is
often as much superstition in disregarding as in attending to dreams; and
he who fears God will escape it in both.
GHOSTS.
THE story of the disturbances at the parsonage-house in Epworth is not
unique. I myself, and others of my particular acquaintances, were eye and
ear witnesses of transactions of a similar kind, which could never be
traced to any source of trick or imposture; and appeared to be the
forerunners of two very tragical events in the disturbed family; after
which no noise or disturbance ever took place.
A philosopher should not be satisfied with reasons advanced by Dr.
Priestley. He who will maintain his creed in opposition to his senses, and
the most undisguised testimony of the most respectable witnesses, had
better at once, for his own credit's sake, throw the whole story in the
region of doubt, where all such relations, no matter how authenticated,
"Upwhirl'd aloft,
Fly over the backside of the world far off,
Into a limbus large and broad."
And instead of its being called "the paradise of fools," it may be styled
"the limbus of philosophic materialists;" into which they hurry whatever
they cannot comprehend, choose not to believe, or please to call
superstitious and absurd. And they treat such matters so, because they
quadrate not with principles unfounded on the divine testimony, feebly
supported by true philosophy, and contradictory to the plain unbiassed
good common sense of nineteen-twentieths of all the inhabitants of the
earth. [16]