Frederick William Robertson Quotes
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?
Robertson, Frederick William. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton. First Series. Ticknor and Fields, 1857, p. 136.
This document was issued in the form of what today would be called a press release or a white paper. Altmark was the Lutheran seat of intellectuality and this document was part of a major Lutheran initiative to propagandize against the rising science of astronomy. The Catholics did the same and both religions saw astronomy as an enemy and evil. See {612384}
People of this era not only saw epidemics as the wrath of God, but also saw military catastrophe, invasion and raids as a punishment of God for the sins of the people of the area.
He was reacting to the fact that the Supreme Court had ruled that a State could not criminalize adult, consensual, homosexual behavior.
Frederick William Robertson, known as Robertson of Brighton, was an English divine.