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SER. IV.

the foregoing extract had the word been put in the place of "," the assertion would have stood more correctly. With regard to what is described in the following gracious declarations and promises of the Lord Jesus, shall it be said there is no mystery?

"I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." Jno. xiv. 16, 17.

"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth

me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, (not Iscariot) Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." Jno. xiv. 21-23.

If the assertion, "There is no mystery in true godliness," was intended to apply to the doctrines of the Gospel, it would palpably contradict the declarations of the Holy Spirit, through the Apostle Paul.

"Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; God was

manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of Angels, preached unto the