A GEM FROM OLIVER HART
A gem from the 18th century Baptist minister Oliver Hart (1723-1795), who pastored First Baptist Church, Charleston, from 1750 to 1780:
“I apprehend the spirituality of worship…consists in communion with God, through Christ, by the operations of the Holy Ghost. I am sensible there are many who discard the doctrine of divine influences, as enthusiastical [i.e. fanatical]; but I look upon it as the quintessence of religion, without which there can be no spiritual, acceptable worship at all.”
[A Gospel Church portrayed and her Costly Service pointed out (Trenton, 1791), 37-38].
“I apprehend the spirituality of worship…consists in communion with God, through Christ, by the operations of the Holy Ghost. I am sensible there are many who discard the doctrine of divine influences, as enthusiastical [i.e. fanatical]; but I look upon it as the quintessence of religion, without which there can be no spiritual, acceptable worship at all.”
[A Gospel Church portrayed and her Costly Service pointed out (Trenton, 1791), 37-38].
As a former resident of Warminster, PA, current resident of Bucks County, PA and visitor to both the Southampton and Hopewell meetinghouses, I can tell you with confidence that the area could use a double-portion of that Spirit which carried Mr. Hart and his like-minded brethren along so zealously in their labors...
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