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 Scripture on our side," says an eminent writer, "is one thing, and a sincere desire to be on the side of Scripture is another."

With what force does the warning against the danger of putting our own construction upon Scripture, attach to those who thus awfully pervert the divine Word; and instead of interpreting Scripture by Scripture, and accepting what is given by inspiration of God in its most obvious sense, distort and becloud it with mysticism!

§ is the man that admits that he undervalues the Scriptures? The veriest infidel thinks he sets them. The foregoing extract is a sufficient proof, that a declaration of high esteem for the Scriptures, is entitled to little regard, when it comes from those who account what our Lord Jesus Christ has spoken, and what the Holy Spirit has revealed to prophets and apostles, and has given for our instruction, inferior as a rule, to those impressions on their own minds, which they believe to be from the Holy Spirit.

EXTRACT I.

Jesus the only Saviour.

I feel bound in spirit to inform you, that there is such a pilot as will carry every individual of us to the celestial city—We read in the few expressions of Jesus of Nazareth, who the