Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, comments on manufacturing, in an age when quicksilver was coming into industrial use. A practice that injures human health or morals cannot be continue continued with a safe conscience.
He’s not calling for a return to preindustrial, caveman-like technologies. He’s not calling for massive regulation. He is addressing a spritiual matter: the conscience.
How can you protect the health and morals of persons?
Richard Baxter, Puritan, equates love, and zeal for the Lord’s work, with deeds that save others from physical death. Do it now, else you or your friend may soon pass away. There will be cases where an act of mercy can be done today, but cannot be done tomorrow.
When most Christian presentations invoke a sense of urgency, how often is it for doing good deeds?
How can you do something expeditiously today?
Jonathan Edwards was a Presbyterian minister and the son of a more famous minister, and enslaver, by the same name. Wikipedia credits him for defending an orthodox view of salvation. Here he says that Britain’s recent attempt to enslave the US was a small crime compared to that of enslaving Africans.
How can you rightly indict, but also rightly continue all the appropriate aspects of prior generations’ value systems and theology?
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Greg Johnson