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512 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 259.
in respect to our salvation were compatible with human liberty,
not a single soul would be lost.
"To the foregoing adversaries of our author may be added
the narrow Sectarian, whether it be a leader that seeketh the
honour that cometh of man, or others under him who have
shut up their minds against all further light, as determined
to maintain the interest and credit of their party on its
present foundation.
"The Deist and Naturalist, who are nearly the same, and
from the depth of a metaphysical darkness, talk of an unknown
God without the least idea of Him, and confound the Divine
Essence with what they call Nature, still more unintelligible,
will professedly oppose the writings of our illustrious author,
who so frequently and sedulously inculcates the Divinity of
Jesus Christ, by His personal union with the Father, from
whence arises this distinguishing grace and privilege of the
Christian, that whereas the eternal, invisible Jehovah mani
fested Himself before and under the Law to mankind by the
ministration of angels, He now communicates Himself to us
through the adorable Jesus, in our own nature, glorified as
God and Man in a Divine personality.
"Lastly, the mere Formalist in religion, the self-righteous
Pharisee, and all such as live according to the course of this
world, with minds and hearts directed thereto, however decent
they may appear externally, will all join in opposition to so
spiritual a messenger, who strenuously insists on the inward
principle of good, without which all externals are unavailing
to salvation, and that it is only through the energy of the
Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father through the Divine
Humanity of the Son in hearts duly prepared for, and receptive
of
, such influence, that we are made meet to be the par
takers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
"Now that any extraordinary messenger to the world,
faithful to his commission in the delivery of Divine Truths,
without respect of persons, should meet with opposition, is so
far from being any just cause of offence to us, that it should
serve to confirm us in the belief of his legation , inasmuch
as Divine Truth must ever be contrary to the inclinations,
maxims, and pursuits of a degenerate world, the reasonings
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