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Rh ism. Does any one feel curiosity, or wonder, does any one search and examine, in the case of things fully known to Him? Could the Creator of nature "stop to examine" and "enjoy the grace and beauty" of His own work? Were indeed this said of Him, we should say, "Here is one of the Mysteries which attend on the Incarnation," but since we cannot suspect such writers as Mr. A. of inventing a Mystery for the sake of it, we must take it evidence of a carnal and Socinian view of the Saviour of mankind.

So this is the ashes to be given as children's meat, to those who "confess" and repent, and try to know 's will in the Gospel.

All this is presumptuous and unsatisfactory, but let it pass.

that is, the delicacy towards sinners of an injured Creator, coming to atone in some mysterious way by His own sufferings for their sins in the sight of and His Father.

Such are the feelings which this writer ventures to express concerning Him, who is his Lord and his God. In condemning, however, his most unclean and miserable imaginings, I have neither wish nor occasion to speak against him as an individual. We have no concern with him. We know nothing of his opportunities of knowing better, nor how far what appears in his writ-