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 the Scriptures! in them ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me." The great cause of diversity of belief, and of erroneous faith, is neglect of obedience to this plain injunction. Instead of searching the Scriptures for themselves, men have taken for granted what others have said, and have thus forfeited their own freedom; which was actually forfeiting their life, for it is freedom of will which renders us accountable in the sight of God, and no man can relinquish this freedom without criminality. If we could, from the mouth of infinite wisdom itself, learn in what true faith consisted, and if from this knowledge we could be led into the full enjoyment of heaven, it is presumed there would be an end of the controversy. And so there would, but that men refuse to be convinced even by this testimony. Let us hear what our duty is:—"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour as thyself. This do, and thou shalt live." (Luke x. 27, 28) Can anything be plainer? This is the true faith. It is an epitome of the whole book of God, for on it hangs all the law and the prophets. Love, then, may be said to be the animating cause, or soul of faith. As if there were no heat in the sun, there could be no vivification merely because it emitted light, so without this principle of holy love, there could be no living and true faith. We have a plain rule, then, for distinguishing the faith which is of God, and the faith which is of man. The faith of God is a belief in the Lord Jesus Christ, as the true God in whom all fulness dwells, It is a faith filled with a principle of humble and confiding love, It is a faith which takes the