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DR. BEYER’S DEFENCE.
doctrines, that we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as
the only God of heaven and earth, the Creator, Redeemer,
Saviour, Renovator, Regenerator, and Justifier, who blesses
us to eternity, who is the All in all of heaven and the church ;
and that we must act according to His commandment or
injunction, which is, ’ to love Him above all things, and our
neighbour as ourselves,’ because He is Love itself.
"It is usually objected to the author’s doctrines that they
do away with Christ’s satisfaction, turn people away from faith
in Christ, set up self-righteousness and self-merit, and that
they clearly teach Socinianism, Mahomedanism, &c. If we
duly examine his teachings in this respect, we find that on
grounds derived from the Word he develops and proves, that
the Lord in the Humanity which He assumed fulfilled every
thing contained in the highest Divine sense of the Word,
down to its lowest natural or literal sense ; further, that in
this same Humanity He combated the powers of hell, and
overcome and subdued them ; that He glorified this Humanity
or made it Divine, and so is a perfect Saviour to eternity,
and the Omnipotent God even in respect to His Humanity.
Higher and more complete ideas respecting the satisfaction
made by the Lord for the human race, cannot certainly be
demanded.
"No one probably has urged more strongly the necessity
of faith in Christ than he, who in a thousand places has
quoted among other passages John iii, 16 ; xv, 4 ; and besides
he inculcates everywhere, that it is impossible for a Christian,
or for any one else, to enter heaven and be in the Lord,
without the idea and the acknowledgment that He alone is
God, the Redeemer and Justifier. Self-righteousness is not
preached by the author, who uniformly keeps close to the
above passage, John xv, 4 ; and insists that man must con
form to Divine order by doing good as from himself, yet
knowing and believing at the same time that it is in reality
from the Lord; nay, he proves that all of man’s own is nothing
but evil and falsity, as it consists in the love of self and of
the world. Wherefore no merit can be attributed to man,
but all merit belongs to the Lord.
"No one teaches a doctrine more opposed to that of
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