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tians are respectively accustomed, is still pleased to reveal to them all the same crucified Redeemer, and to direct their footsteps into one path of obedience, holiness, and peace."*

In bringing this Treatise to a close I most readily acknowledge my persuasion that the appeal which has called it forth was the fruit of a sincere and earnest desire to win the erring to the truth; and therefore we owe the author our real thanks; but I cannot help feeling that he would be much more mighty to seek and to save, if, emancipating himself from the trammels of creeds, he would let his own loving and fervent spirit move freely about in the fellowship of wise and holy men of differing opinion, and, on the broad principle of Christian brotherhood, unite with them in pulling down the strongholds of ignorance and sin. Before we can expect to add much to each other's doctrinal truth, we need to get, so to speak, on that plane of mutual understanding and sympathy, in which alone we can help one another very effectually. For this state, as rich in blessings as in happiness, we all ought earnestly to pray; and I cannot help feeling that God, in His abounding goodness, is in various ways bringing it about, and not least by the increased love and care He has shed abroad in men's hearts for the great multitude of the ignorant, the suffering, and the outcast.

*Quoted in p. xiv. of the Preface to vol. i. of the History of the Planting of the Christian Church, by Neander, who adds, "Words fit to shame theologians who are burning with zeal for the letter and forms, as if on these depended the essence of religion, whose life and spirit are rooted in facts."

My own hope for the progress of Christian truth is far less in controversy than in the diffusion of pure knowledge on theological subjects, and a humble but candid and trustful spirit of inquiry. And in these respects I cannot help feeling that the signs of the times are encouraging. Several most valuable additions have recently been made, and not least by clergymen of the Church of England, to the religious literature of our country; and the immense amount of materials accumulated by German learning is becoming more and more accessible to English students. But we shall not forget that here below we can at best know only in part, and that to the settling of most of our disputes, one moment hereafter will be of more avail than all our efforts during this life.

Mr. Bickersteth introduces a prayer suitable to the commencement of this controversy; let me suggest one appropriate to its close: "We entreat Thee, O most merciful Father, that Thou wilt not suffer our few days to be spent in endless wanderings in quest of Thee and Thy Son Jesus; but let our sincere endeavors to know Thee, in all the ways whereby Thou hast discovered Thyself, be crowned with such success, that our souls, being established in every needful truth by Thy Holy Spirit, we may spend our whole lives according to the rules of Thy Gospel, and may with all the holy and happy creation, ascribe glory and honor, wisdom and power, to Thee who sittest upon the Throne, and to the Lamb for ever and ever. Amen."*

* Watts.

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