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in recasting their opinions, who knows to what extent they may further
the spirit of unity? May the glorious day be hastened!
I can fancy that some will say that throughout this whole treatise I
have appealed too much to reason, and have not given sufficient
prominence to Scripture. I think any such charge would be unfair. Look
back and see if it is just. I have taken Scripture and reason combined;
and let it ever be borne in mind that both are equally divine gifts. On
the highest plane they are in perfect unison.
I have dealt with the plainer passages of Scripture especially, and
chiefly with those that combine with reason. This is a common sense
treatise. I deemed it better, therefore, to make essential matters
plain, even to repetition, than to indulge in long disquisitions about
mistranslations, and such like matters, which in the case of many would
only leave the question in a haze. Besides; we have to remember that
truth is truth, and will never contradict itself. It is for opponents,
therefore, to controvert the positions I have taken, rather than to
criticise what I have omitted. If the latter course would hold in
argument, it would be easy enough to make out a case for anything.
I would ask you personally then to think over the entire question for
yourself. Do not suppose that the matter is too high for you.
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