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326 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
by them, I hope to be regarded graciously, even though I be
totally ignorant of what may be brought forward as a settled
matter from other quarters, and even by men of distinction.
"Your Royal Majesty graciously allows even your meaner
subjects to speak according to the light which they possess.
"The words of the Lord are, ’But be not ye called Rabbi:
for one is your leader, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren. And
call no one your father upon the earth : for one is your Father
which is in heaven. Neither be ye called leaders: for one is
your leader, even Christ’ (Matt. xxiii , 8-10). In agreement
therewith a great apostle is unwilling that one should say that
he is ’of Paul,’ another that he is ’of Apollos,’ a third ’ of
Cephas,’ and a fourth of Christ’ (1 Cor. i, 11 , 12) ; this he
calls carnal, for ’neither is he that planteth any thing, nor he
that watereth, but God that giveth the increase’ (Ibid. iii, 4 et seq.).
The former is done, and the latter avoided when we adopt
the Lord’s Word in the first place as our chief rule, and
have regard to it only; and when we thus ’ search the Scriptures,
because they are they which testify of Him,’ and when we
know, for instance, that ’Moses wrote concerning Him’ (John v,
39, 46). This conformity is commended as praiseworthy in
the case of the Bereans (Acts xvii, 11) . The consequence
of this is, that a person is enabled to testify truthfully con
cerning him; even as He Himself says, ’And ye also (disciples
of the Word, taught of God) shall bear witness’ (John xv, 27) ;
’For whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I con
fess also before my Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever
shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my
Father which is in heaven’ (Matt. x, 32, 33). Therefore also
the true disciple is described in Luke vi ; which is a subject
carried out a little in the ’New Attempt towards a Collection
of Sermons,’ which is humbly added to this memorial, and
where it will be found written for the fourth Sunday after
Trinity. Peter, the apostle, accordingly says, ’Be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of
the hope that is in you with meekness and fear’ (1 Peter iii,
15). How much more then when those who are in authority
mildly and from zeal for the Lord’s cause graciously demand
from you such an answer.
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