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Often appears with: the problem of evil and theodicy · spiritual agency · salvation conditions · infant baptismal theology · conversion and faith

Usually: argument (1) · the test or trial (1) · skepticism (1)

Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit primary

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1825-01-01
Letter I. 291 > Letter? To kill that which it is its appropriate office to enliven? (125/144)

Coleridge answers an objection about whether infants can receive spiritual influence, saying the argument assumes the contested premise and warning against a purely arbitrary condition of infant salvability.

been an Apostolic usage, or specially intended in any part of the New Testament: though deducible *generally* from many passages, and in perfect accordance with the *spirit* of the whole. A mighty wrestler in the cause of Spiritual Religion and *Gospel* morality, in whom more than in any other contemporary I seem to see the spirit of Luther revived, expressed to me his doubts whether we have a right to deny that an …