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 systems have long been current under the of Christianity which the world likes and {{reconstruct|admires; and which afford to many an easy road to {{reconstruct|worldly profit and reputation. But in this {{reconstruct|circumstance}}, such systems carry the mark of being different {{reconstruct|from}} and opposite to the Christianity of {{SIC|Seripture|Scripture}}. {{reconstruct|Its divine}} Author has established a kingdom, that {{reconstruct|is not}} of this world; (John xviii. 36.) and holds out {{reconstruct|procurement}} to the worldly eye. On the contrary, {{reconstruct|he proclaims}}, If any man will come after me, let him {{reconstruct|come}} himself, and take up his cross and follow me; and, {{reconstruct|whoever}} will be a friend of the world he is an enemy {{reconstruct|of God}}. (Matt. xvi. 24. James iv. 4:) If the disciples {{reconstruct|of Christ}} ever escape the contempt and resentment of {{reconstruct|the surrounding}} world, it must be either because they {{reconstruct|fail of}} confessing his truth distinctly, or because they {{reconstruct|disguise}} by their conduct what they confess with their {{reconstruct|lips;}} because they forsake the standing laws of his {{reconstruct|kingdom}} in their practice, and confound it with the  religions of his enemies. The laws of his {{reconstruct|kingdom}} are handed down in the Apostolic writings {{reconstruct|of the}} regulation of his subjects to the end of the {{reconstruct|world}}. And he who attempts to set aside their divine {{reconstruct|priority}} by adding to them or taking from them is {{reconstruct|in this,}} doing the work of Antichrist.

{{block center| {{reconstruct|They talk}} they of morals? O thou bleeding lamb,

{{reconstruct|Thou}} maker of new morals to mankind,

{{reconstruct|The}} grand morality is love of thee.

{{em|4}}Her strongest motives sting,

{{reconstruct|Here}} sacred violence assaults the soul,

{{reconstruct|And}} nothing but compulsion is forborne. }}{{fine block/e}} {{nop}}