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24 awe, wonder, and fear? and are these not moral impressions? He proceeds:

Here, at length, Rationalism stands confessed, and we hear openly the "mouth speaking great things," described in prophecy. Again:

If so, what judgment are we to pass upon such texts as the following? "We are unto a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; to the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other, the savour of life unto life." "What if, willing to show His wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory?" " He hath appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness, by that Man whom He hath ordained." "Behold I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be ." The glory of, according to Mr. Erskine, and the maintenance of truth and righteousness, are not objects sufficient, were there no other, to prevent "the whole system" of revealed truth from "becoming dead and useless. ' Does not this philo-