PEIMTHVE CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CORRUPTIONS. VOL. II. DEPflRTMENT OF PERSONRL RIGHTEOUSNESS. A SERIES OF DISCOURSES DELIVERED IN HOPEDALE, MASS., A D. 1870-71, BY ADIN jiALLOU. EDITED BY WILLIAM S. HEYWOOD. Which of you convinceth me of sin And if I say the truth why do ye not believe me John viii 46. Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matt. v. 30 Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say Luke vi 46. LOWELL, MASS. THOMPSON HILL, PRINTERS. THE Vox POPULI PRESS. 1899 TABLE OF CONTENTS. DISCOURSE I. Statement of the subject … …. 1 DISCOURSE II. Primitive Christian Piety Part i 14 DISCOURSE III. Primitive Christian Piety Part 2 27 DISCOURSE IV. Corruptions of Primitive Christian Piety Part i. In rela tion to Worship … 43 DISCOURSE V. Corruptions of Primitive Christian Piety Part 2. In rela tion to Rites and Ceremonies 57 DISCOURSE VI. Corruptions of Primitive Christian Piety Part 3. In rela tion to its Divorce from Morality 72 DISCOURSE VII. Primitive Christian Morality 87 CONTENTS. DISCOURSE VIII On the Fundamental Vntue of Humility 101 DISCOURSE IX On Self-Demal as a Fundamental Vntue . . 114 DISCOURSE X. On the Primitive Christian Virtue of Justice … 120 DISCOURSE XI On the Fundamental Vntue of Truthfulness, 143 DISCOURSE XII On the Supreme Virtue of Peifect Love 150 DISCOURSE XIII On the Primitive Christian Doctrine of Non-Resistance 174 DISCOURSE XIV. Christian Moialityand Civil Government… . 18 DISCOURSE XV On the Pnmitive Chiistian Virtue of Peisonal Purity 204 DISCOURSE XVI On the Primitive Chnstian Doctrine concerning Oath-taking . 21 DISCOURSEXVII. On the Primitive Christian Doctrine concerning Property 2 4 CONTENTS. DISCOURSE XVIII. On the Primitive Christian Doctrine concerning Mental Cult-248 DISCOURSE XIX On the Primitive Christian Doctrine respecting the use of Talents, etc… 2G4 DISCOURSE XX. Primitive Christian Morality vs Worldly Morality . . 279 DISCOURSE XXI. Incipient Corruptions of Primitive Christian Morality . . 294 DISCOURSE XXII. Increasing Corruptions of Primitive Christianity …310 DISCOURSE XXIII. Deepening Corruptions of Primitive Christianity … 326 DISCOURSE XXIV. The Morality of Christendom during the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Centuries 342 DISCOURSE XXV The Moral Condition o Christendom during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth Centuries 359 DISCOURSE XXVI. The Average Morality of Christendom in the seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries 375 CONTENTS. DISCOURSE XXVII The Prevailing Morality of Christendom in the nineteenth Century … 302 DISCOURSE XXVIII General Summary and Applicatory Reflections Conclusion, 400 PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY AND ITS CORRUPTIONS. DEPARTMENT OF PERSONAL RIGHTEOUSNESS. DISCOURSE I STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matt, v 20 In the series of discourses composing the first volume of my projected work on PRIMITIVE CHRIS TIANITY AND ITS CORRUPTIONS, I endeavored to set forth and illustrate the pure Theology of the Gospel of Christ, and to expose the principal features of it which, as time went on, were seriously misinterpreted, obscured, and perverted. In that upon the same general subject whichappears on the pages of the present volume, I propose to render a similar service in behalf of the distinctive Personal Righteousness taught and exemplified by the Founder of our holy religion and his early Apostles. Primitive Christian ity embodies an exceptional and distinctive type of personal righteousness, as it has an exceptional and 2 PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY distinctive theological system declaratively inculcated or implied in its teachings and ministrations Both are transcendently excellent, and are in strictest har mony with each other…