Religion Books
Bible-Burning
John C. MillerMaking every allowance for the members of a Church who regard the Protestant version as erroneous, I am prepared to show you that this is not a solitary instance of such proceedings in the Romish Chur..
Christian Marriage Indissoluble - A Plain Sermon
James Galloway CowanMarriage, you know, was instituted in the time of man’s innocency. God judged that it was not good for man to be alone; He therefore gave him a help meet for him. That help was a creature ..
The Cause and Cure of the Cattle Plague - A Plain Sermon
James Galloway CowanDo you ask me what I suppose to be the purpose of this visitation—and what, therefore, we have to do as a nation and as individuals by way of repentance and amendment? I venture not to answer pa..
The Ritual Movement
James Galloway CowanWithout further preface, I would, in all solemnity, read this precept as addressed to us, brethren, to the clergy and laity of the Anglican Church of this present day, and as one which for the glory o..
An analysis of religious belief
John Russell AmberleyIf some of the advanced thinkers of the day find that Viscount Amberly—as evinced in some of the later chapters of this volume—had not in all respects evolved in the line of Free-thought so far as the..
The Kashf al-mahjúb - The oldest Persian treatise on Súfiism
HujviriThe Kashf al-Maḥjúb, which belongs to the later years of the author’s life, and, partly at any rate, to the period of his residence in Lahore, was written in reply to certain questions addressed to hi..
The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland
Alexander PeterkinThe subsequent history of these volumes—the best, perhaps, that can now be given—is to be found in a “Statement” concerning[iii] them, drawn up by Dr John Lee, the present Clerk of the General Assembl..
Toleration and other essays
VoltaireThe position of Voltaire in the development of religious thought in Europe is unique. Even if his words had no application in our age, it merits the most grateful consideration. Trace to its sources t..