Abstract

Excerpt from Landmarks of New Testament Morality Our aim in this volume has been to compress into a few connected chapters what seemed to us to be the distinctive and salient principles of New Testament Morality. In pursuance of this aim we have striven to keep the book strictly within the limits prescribed by its title. We have therefore kept in abeyance all subjects of dogmatic Theology. The questions relating to the theological nature of sin, the origin of sin, the punishment of sin, and the atonement for sin, are outside the scope of the present treatise; for, however much they touch the moral sphere, they contain an additional or transcendental element which demands a separate mode of study. We have only to add that as the drift of the work is not historical, we have made few references to the opinions of others, and these have gradually disappeared as we have come into contact with those familiar sources from which alone such a work must be ultimately derived - the books of the New Testament itself. 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.