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Excerpt from Works of the Rev. John Maclaurin, Late One of the Ministers of Glasgow: With an Introductory Essay
If is impossible to real the New Testament, with even a moderate degree of attentiom without, being ctrnclt with the infinite importance which it attaches to an accurate and extensive knowledge of the pecus liar principles which it contains. This is life eternal, says Jesus Christ, that they might know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent. I count all things but loss, says the apostle Paul, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. The truth as it is in Jesus, is uniformly represented as the grand instru ment by which the moral miracles of the new crea tion are performed. It is through this truth, known and believed, that men obtain a personal interest in all the blessings of the Christian salvation. It is thus that man's deranged spiritual relations are ad justed, and his depraved spiritual character trans formed. His thus that the condemned criminal is restored to the favour of the righteous moral Gover nor of the world-the spiritual madman brought to a sound mind, and made wise unto salvation and the slave of sin introduced into the glorious.
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