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James Flint
James Flint was an eighteenth-century theologian whose A Discourse contributed to contemporary debates on religious doctrine and ecclesiastical practice during a period of significant theological ferment in Britain. His work engaged with prevailing theological currents of the era, addressing questions of scriptural interpretation and doctrinal authority that were central to Enlightenment-era religious thought. Flint's scholarly contributions, though modest in scope, reflect the intellectual preoccupations of provincial theological circles in the Georgian period.
From A Discourse
I would, therefore, ask the attention of my respected auditors to a brief review of these events, of ‘ the things, which our eyes have seen,’’—to a cursory notice of some of the important lessons moral and political, which people and rulers, electors and legislators have alike been taught by these things, and are bound to remember; and lastly, to the mention of certain objects, in the promotion of which every patriot and philanthropist, and certainly the appointed guardiaus of a christian commonwealth, will feel themselves urgently called upon to exert their influence, from the extraordinary character of the times and state of the world, in which we live. I. A year has not yet elapsed since the friends of liberty, of religion and human happiness in this country, spontaneously and publicly testified their devout and joyous sympathy with the exulting nations of Kurope when they heard the tidings of…
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