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Samuel Austin
Samuel Austin was a nineteenth-century American theologian and minister whose writings on community and religious life reflected the broader evangelical and social reform movements of his era. His work Religion, the Glory of a Community exemplified the period's growing emphasis on religion as a force for social cohesion and moral improvement, positioning him within the intellectual currents of antebellum American Protestantism. Austin's theological contributions bridged personal piety and communal responsibility, making him a notable figure in the development of American religious thought during the nineteenth century.
From Religion, the Glory of a Community
Religion may be considered as a system, and it is in this Tight especially that we now speak of it.. In this view it comprehends all truth and all righteousness. Ii is a dispensation of light,of law, and of grace. Religion regards the daty and the highest felicity of man. It respects all beings between whom and us there are moral relations, and every thing whieh we ean employ to a useful end. It relates Jo _ the understanding, the heart, andthe practice. It relates to the understanding, as it enriches’ with knowledge, partieus larly the knowledge of God, his government and salvation, and our duty and highest interest. It relates to the heart, as it enjoins and produces right affections towards all ebjects of good will, of esteem, and of displeasure. I relates to practice, as it not only purifies the spring, bat sanctifies the pow~ ers and the…
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