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336 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
Socinus and his followers, whose principles he quotes and
refutes in many places ; and no one has given a fuller description
of the certain doom, which will overtake confirmed Socinians,
(e. g. in ’ Heaven and Hell,’ no. 3.)
"So far as Mahomedanism is the result of Mahomed’s own
invention, he has a perfect horror of it ; as can be sufficiently
proved from what he says in the work on ’ Conjugial and
Scortatory Love ’ in the chapter on Polygamy.
"Another objection against his works is, that they do
not keep within the established doctrines, and that with respect
to the profundity of their truths they are altogether novel
and unusual. Here it may be proper to observe in a general
way, that no bounds can be set to the infinity of Divine
Wisdom in the Word ; and that with respect to the future of the
Church, no one can draw a line which must not be overpassed
in the revelation of Divine Wisdom. Ecclesiastical History
teaches us that the Christian Church among various peoples
and at various times had different limits assigned to it ; and
in making an application to the science of theology itself, it
could not well maintain its high rank in the field of learning,
if, by right and in an infallible manner, bounds could be
assigned to it more than to all the other sciences, which, as
is well-known, can never reach their greatest summit. The
theologians have sufficiently proved this in their own persons
by changing and improving the creeds in various ways,
since the time of those who made them. What is spiritual
transcends immeasurably what is natural in every respect ;
and who dares to prohibit Divine light from shining as much
as it pleases ? Or who does what is right and good, by closing
the eye of his understanding against it, or by hiding the light
under a bushel (Matt. v, 16) ? When unknown and new truths,
which yet in themselves are the ancient truths, are put for
ward, they require new terms and new expressions, so that
they cannot but seem strange in the form in which they are
communicated.
"In order to give in all humility a definite expression
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respecting the author’s experience, I may state that a trust
and confidence in it follow as a natural consequence from
the ability to comprehend and to make yourself at home in
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