BORGIANS, still persist in their Self-devised IDIOCY, and gross Fatuity that, Jesus, is,-the entire God-and that there is no other God besides Him: And this They ostentatiously maintain: For say they, to assert otherwise, and that there are,-The Father, and The Holy Ghost, is to avow There are Three Gods! And what if there are Three, which are continually operative, intrinsically, as God! yet also separately, and ever unitedly; And which the Scriptures verify that, there be ?-It is not in the Power of any Sectarian whatsoever, either to annul, invalidate, or render nugatory a single word or particle of the inspired Gospel of Apostolic testimony, and Godly authority and avouchment. And striving as Sectarians do, against the Witness that Jesus gave of himself; They are therefore, deprived of understanding His Doctrine. Nay, by their predilections, their prejudiced, and by their irrational Ideas; they deprive themselves of the Truth, and of Christian Principles. And like to Unitarians, they sequester and omit, even turn aside from the written, Scriptural Explanations; consequently, they fall away, and swerve from the Heavenly, the Godly, and Apostolic Interpretations. For further elucidatory proof, and established consummation thereof,-See the excellency of the Testamentary truth, by the Highly favoured Apostle and Evangelist, who bears his Gospel Testimony to the Words and the Power of Jesus; as exemplified in his conversation, and reply to the Jews, saying, 66 Verily, verily, I say unto You,-THE SON can do nothing of himself, but what He seeth THE FATHER do: for what things soever HE DOETH, These also doeth the Son likewise, "For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and He will shew him greater works than these, that Ye may marvel. "For as THE FATHER raiseth up the Dead, and quickeneth Them; even so THE SON quickeneth whom He will. "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son: "That all Men should Honour the Son, even as They Honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which sent him." St. John v. 19-23. The Evangelist in his closing Testimony, remarks and says, That, the Books, The Scriptures which are written, are sufficient for instruction and insurance of Eternal Life.' Were therefore, the Multifarious, the Cumbrous and Oppressive Mass of bewildering Books collected; even unitedly with the Hundred Thousands of Volumes of the Vatican, and together with all and every of the Images, Busts, Pictures, and Emblematical Designs which it contains; And not excepting but including all and similar Emblems of Statues and Figures, and with all PICTORIAL and Emblazoned Armorial Bearings, which are represented and seen in Churches and Chapels, even in the Universities and Collegiate Choirs !-Were they all,-The Paintings, the Imagery, and the worse than useless Books brought together, and committed and cast into one vast Pile and Pyramid for Burning,-May they who can conceive the Beholding of the appointed consuming Fire, and seeing the last glimmering Blaze going up! and vanishing before their Eyes!-May they rejoice, and Clap their hands together with Shouts of applause and thanksgiving, that, They shall all,-The Books, the Images, the Statues, and the Paintings; The Illusions, the Phantoms of the treacherous and general Delusion: no more be found or be seen, than,— 'The trace of a Bird through the Air;' or of 'an Arrow shot through the Atmosphere, whose place can no more be seen.' Yet, Tophet is ordained to be made Deep and Large, and decreed for the residence and abode of the Beast and FALSE Prophet; where the Heart's Treasure lies, There will the Apostacy of Imagery be found at the final Judgment day.—Isa. xxx.=Rev. xx. But with what Zest and accumulation of Joy and Praise will Those, who retain the single BooK OF TRUTH, and its Principles of Everlasting Life! With what Comfort will THEY search the Scriptures and abide by the Gospel of their Salvation? Embracing and Receiving the pure and simplified Doctrine, and Testamentary Teaching of the Evangelist, who instructs and assures them, saying,-. "THESE BOOKS, are written that Ye might believe, That JESUS is the CHRIST, The SON OF GOD; and that Believing, Ye might have LIFE through his Name." St. John xx. 31. Such is the thankful Hope, The Faith, and the Belief of the Writer and Searcher after the Truth, 'as it is in Jesus,' and who now gratefully subscribes himself, Cheltenham, September, 1847. SCRUTATOR. |