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Excerpt from A Collection of Pieces and Tracts: Illustrative of the Faith of Those Christians Who Hold the Principles of the Unity of God, and the Salvation of Sinners by His Free Grace in the Gospel
From all God's dispensations for the government of mankind, in matters of religion, it is plain that though he affords evidence suflicient to convince im partial judgments, yet there is none of such a na ture as to confound their understandings, and com pel their assent. But had Christ come from heaven in the full brightness of his father's glory; had he made his first appearance publicly among the Jewish rulers, proclaiming his divine commission, and de mandin g their immediate submission to his autho rity, by a train of stupendous miracles, so that none of them should have been able to withstand him; this method, beside its giving too much countenance to the wrong notions they had entertained of the Messiah's kingdom, and encouraging them to come into it without proper qualifications, and upon princi ples directly Opposite to its real constitution and de sign; this would have been too violent and overbear[7. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
