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- Title: Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
- Author : Rufus Matthew Jones
- Release Date : January 01, 1948
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 402 KB
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This is a Religious Book. The book tells that There is no magic in words, though, it must be confessed, they often exercise a psychological influence so profound and far-reaching that they seem to possess a miracle- working efficacy. Some persons live all their lives imder the suggestive spell of certain words, and it sometimes happens that an entire epoch is more or less dominated by the mysterious fascination of a sacred word, which needs only to be spoken on the house-top to set hearts beating and legs marching. " Spiritual " has always been one of these wonder-working words. St. Paul, in Christian circles, was the first to give the word its unique value. For him it named a new order of life and a new level of being. In his thought, a deep cleavage runs through the human race and divides it into two sharply-sundered classes, " psychical men " and " pneumatical men " — men who live according to nature, and men who live by the life of the Spirit. The former class, that is psychical men, are of the earth earthy ; they are, as we should say to-day, empirical, parts of a vast nature-system, doomed, as is the entire system, to constant flux and mutability and eventually to irretrievable wreck and ruin ; the natural, psychical, corruptible man, cannot inherit incorruption. On the other hand, the pneumatical or spiritual man " puts on " incorruption and immortality. He is a member of a new order ; he is " heavenly", a creation " not made with hands", but wrought out of the substance of the spiritual world, and furnished with the inherent capacity of eternal duration, so that " mortality is swallowed up of life".