The Reasonableness of Christianity Quotes

“The law of faith then, in short, is for every one to believe what God requires him to believe, as a condition of the covenant he makes with him: and not to doubt of the performance of his promises.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“But, by the law of faith, faith is allowed to supply the defect of full obedience: and so the believers are admitted to life and immortality, as if they were righteous.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“And therefore the punishment of those who would not follow him, was to lose their souls, i. e. their lives,”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“Here then we have the standing and fixed measures of life and death. Immortality and bliss, belong to the righteous; those who have lived in an exact conformity to the law of God, are out of the reach of death; but an exclusion from paradise and loss of immortality is the portion of sinners; of all those who have any way broke that law, and failed of a complete obedience to it, by the guilt of any one transgression”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“I must confess, by death here, I can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“it seems a strange way of understanding a law, which requires the plainest and directest words, that by death should be meant eternal life in misery.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“This shows, that the state of paradise was a state of immortality, of life without end; which he lost that very day that he eat: his life began from thence to shorten, and waste, and to have an end; and from thence to his actual death, was but like the time of a prisoner, between the sentence passed, and the execution, which was in view and certain.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“To one that, thus unbiassed, reads the scriptures, what Adam fell from (is visible) was the state of perfect obedience, which is called justice in the New Testament; though the word, which in the original signifies justice, be translated righteousness: and by this fall he lost paradise, wherein was tranquillity and the tree of life; i. e. he lost bliss and immortality.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“and so made Jesus Christ nothing but the restorer and preacher of pure natural religion; thereby doing violence to the whole tenour of the New Testament.”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures

“I found the two extremes that men run into on this point, either on the one hand shook the foundations of all religion, or, on the other, made christianity almost nothing: for while some men would have all Adam’s posterity doomed to eternal, infinite punishment, for the transgression of Adam, whom millions had never heard of, and no one had authorised to transact for him, or be his representative; this seemed to others so little consistent with the justice or goodness of the great and infinite God, that they thought there was no redemption necessary, and consequently, that there was none;”
― John Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity, As Delivered in the Scriptures