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him,' and shall join in the song of salvation, with the Society above, out of every nation, kindred, tongue, language, and people;' of course there may be bad and good people among all

sects.

C. Suppose all Christians should do like you, there would be no form or order in the world; and of course, confusion would come in at the

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S. To say if all should do like me,' you might as well say on the same principles, where would be the Carpenters if all were Blacksmiths ? It is no just mode of reasoning. As the different branches of mechanism are necessary for society, so these different gifts are necessary, as the eye, hand and foot, &c. to constitute one perfeet body. As a whole is composed of parts, and the parts collectively form one whole.-As to confusion---what is termed confusion with and by men, may be order with God, who sees not as men

see.

C. In what do you believe and preach?

S. I believe in the Divinity of Jesus Christ.*

* It being both idolatry and blasphemy to give Divine honours to a mere creature; JESUS CHRIST must be viewed in a more noble light.

ETERNITY, Immensity and Infinity, are words we have heard and can repeat; but who can fix any definite meaning to them? though they are in common use; yet they are words fit only to be applied to the Deity; and ought not to be ap plied any where else; for they cannot be otherwise used without palpable absurdities, and nonsensical contradictions. And such abuses have too long been existing in the world already!

An Infinite, Eternal Being of Immensity! Who or what can Man know of HIM, the CAUSELESS CAUSATOR, but by Revelation, Inspiration or Manifestation?

How can man worship his MAKER with his understanding, provided he be in the darkness of ignorance, so far, as neither to know nor understand any thing about it?

The world by wisdom know not their Maker.' 'He is a Spirit and is spiritually discerned. What man knoweth the

C. Do you feel willing to depend your everlasting welfare on Jesus Christ?

S. To see one malefactor put confidence in another, who is under the same condemnation, to save him, exhibits great faith; and also a noble opinion, as exemplified in the instance at Calvary. To trust in a creature to save me, I cannot ; but to trust in Christ, according to the Gospel, gives. me peace, and brightens up the prospects of eter nity before me.

C. But supposing Christ was a deceiver? then he was only an impostor, and of course you are under a delusion.

S. The worst of opposers to Christianity admit that Christ, as man, was a good man, of course no real good man will be a deceiver? if so he

things of man; save the spirit of a man which is within him? And how shall a man KNOW the mind and will of his Maker, but by Revelation?

If the Maker of man be a spirit, How shall His will be Revealed, so as to be understood but by Inspiration?

Should His voice be heard from the sky, over the whole world, who could bear the sound? The clash of ten thou sand pieces of artillery re-doubled, would be comparative silence! Well might the Jews at Mount Sinai, request Moses should speak to them, the voice of the LORD being so dreadful in their Ears! The human family is so numerous, and their cases so many and so various; and their Languages so different; as twenty in New-Orleans; hence there could not any thing be heard distinctly, but all would be nonsense and confusion!

Hence the tender care and goodness of God the Maker and Governor, over man his creature in sending the influence of His Holy Spirit, to operate upon the mind and guide man upon the road to Jerusalem; so that without terror he may be enlightened to understand his Maker's will, and inspired with evidence and conviction on the all important subject.

The ANGEL of the Covenant, was not a created Angel; but was termed Jehovah,' which Name the Jews consider as im plying all the Divine attributes; and therefore will not speak it, lest it should not be done with suitable reverence; and so. take this Majestic Name in vain, and not be guiltless.-And hence they will write it only.

The word 'LORD,' printed in small capitals in the Old Tes

was no impostor. Therefore, according to this admittance, his religion may be genuine and real. Again, it is too uncharitable to suppose and conelude, that all who have died so happy and triumphant in the love and religion of Jesus Christ were under a delusion. And if it be once admitted that it was a reality with even but one instance, the point is gained.

C. How do you know that there ever was such a person as Jesus Christ upon earth?

S. Observe the account of Josephus, of Pilate to the Senate of Rome, our dates, with other histories, as well as scripture. Also, the many circumstantial proofs, as the letters of Pliney to Tra

tament should be Jehovah; which the Jews understand, to imply the Divinity of the Messiah, to be manifested in the world as the Saviour of Men!

Whatsoever Gon, the Causeless Causator, does, it is done in and through Jehovah-the Lord Jesus Christ, who is called the Son of God!

Thus-He existed in the beginning as the word;—'I AM;' --God, hath appointed Him Heir of all things-by whom He made the Worlds-by Him all things were made, and without Him was not any thing made that was made!

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Man was in the hand of Christ before Moral Evil' was in the World. And when man fell he still was in the hand of Christ, who called unto him in the cool of the day'-which exhibits the beauty of those words,-God so loved the World, that He sent His Son into the World-that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life-for God sent not His Son into the World, to condemn the World, but that the WORLD through Him might be saved' Hence, We love God because He FIRST loved us. No man knoweth the Father save the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him.

CHRIST is the manifestation of GoD, through and from whom the Holy Spirit proceeds, to enlighten by his quickening influ ence, and guide, comfort, and sanctify mankind.

Thus there is an inward manifestation, by a Revelation of CHRIST in the Heart: corresponding to the outward manifes tation given in the days of His Flesh!

And it is not possible that any man should sincerely pray to GOD to be taught by Him, and if He hath a Son, to Reveal Him, in his heart; and not find a solution of the Query to his own satisfaction.

jan, which Christian opposers admit to be genu. ine; with the many efforts to root out Christianity from the earth in vain! Christianity has, does, and will prevail !*

C. Admitting that Jesus Christ did exist, and was a good man, yet the resurrection may be fabulous, and Christianity of course a deception. S. On the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ turns the whole affair. The body was entombed and missing, all agree.

C. The body of Christ being gone from the vault, possibly he played the possum, and only feigned himself to be dead, and deceived them, and at night made his escape; and hence a false report was circulated that he was risen from the dead.

S. Nay, such talk will never do! Consider the loss of blood from the thorns, the scourge and nails, &c. These wounds so long undressed must have terminated in dissolution. Again, the orders were to break his legs; but when they saw he was dead, forbore to obey, lest they should be exposed to ridicule for breaking the legs of a dead man to prevent him from running away, And yet to put it beyond all doubt that Christ was dead, one of them up with a spear and run it

rough his heart; which puts it beyond all dispute he was really dead. Moreover, consider for a moment, a cell or prison hewed out in the centre of a rock, and there in prison confined, with a stone door, so large and weighty that three females thought they could not roll it away; and this door confined and sealed; and also a military guard placed to keep the same with all safety, and if any thing was amiss, must pay the forfeit with their lives! Hence it is obvious the na

There is Divine witness in my own soul.

tural impossibility of such deception, imposition and escape.

C. But the Apostles stole the body of Jesus Christ, and hid it, and then propogated a lie, that it was risen and ascended.

S. It was naturally impossible for such a thing to exist, if we, in conjunction with the foregoing circumstances, consider that the apostles could have no access to the vault; second, no temptation to steal the body; third, they were not monied men to bribe the guard; fourth, though an individual may be bribed, yet I do not recollect to have read, or heard of a whole guard being bribed; fifth, it was death under the Roman law, to sleep on guard; sixth, if the guard had been sleepy, the natural conclusion is, they would have set or lain on the stone door, or contiguous to it, go that no one could approach without giving alarm. Now for the seal to be broke, and the stone removed, without waking the soldiers when in such heaps and piles, would argue an unnatural sleep, and of course a miracle. Therefore, to obviate the idea of one miracle on one side, you must admit and argue one on the other side; of course your argument proves too much, like the Indian's tree; it was so straight it leaned a little over the other way. What is a miracle, but something unnatural, providentially?

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C. But the vault was undermined by the Apostles, and the body taken away through a subterraneous passage!

S. Nay, but it would have taken a longer space of time to undermine the vault by digging through a rock than the space of time the body was in the tomb.

C. Some other body arose, and not the body of Christ.

S. Nay, for man before was never there en

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