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(by Gardiner Spring) By piety, we mean: 1. the religion of principle, in distinction from the religion of impulse; 2. a spiritual religion, in distinction from a religion of forms; 3. a religion of which the Spirit of God, and not the wisdom or the will of man, is the author; 4. a self denying and not a self indulgent religion; 5. a religion that has a heavenward tendency, and not an earthly tendency; 6. a practical religion, in opposition to the abstractions of theory; 7. a religion that is so full of Christ, that the crucified One is at the basis of its duties and hopes; its center, its living head, and its glory. |