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conclusions have been drawn, independently of the revelations 

 of the Scriptures, I can not abstain from marking their perfect 

 parallelism with the language of Paul in the following pas- 

 sages : " One God, who is ABOVE all, and THROUGH all, and 

 IN YOU all." Eph. iv. 6. " And he is BEFORE all things, and 

 by him all things CONSIST." Col. i. 17. "For OF him, and 

 THROUGH him, and TO him are ALL THINGS ; to whom be glory 

 for ever." Rom. xi. 36. Representing the Divine vitalizing 

 principle flowing into, and pervading man, as taking the char- 

 acter of man, the same as when flowing into, and vitalizing 

 animals, vegetables, minerals, worlds, it always takes the 

 specific character of its receptacle David, addressing the 

 Deity, says, " With the merciful thou wilt show thyself mer- 

 ciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself up- 

 right : with the pure thou wilt show thyself m pure, and with 

 the fro ward thou wilt show thyself fro ward." Ps. xviii. 

 25, 26. This can not mean that God, in his true personal 

 character, is any other than merciful, upright, and pure, but 

 that his vitalizing and energizing inflowings into man (without 

 which man would be dead, body and soul) can excite the 

 qualities of mercy, uprightness, purity, etc., only as these 

 comport with the character of the receptacle. It is said, more- 

 over, that God dwells " with him who is of an humble and 

 contrite spirit ;" that is, dwells, not as a mere generator of 

 material force and action, as he dwells in the lower creations, 

 but dwells as God in his interior soul, as in a temple; while 

 the " fullness of the Godhead" dwelt " bodily" only in that 

 ever-to-be-admired personage, who was absolutely without sin, 

 who expressly declared that he was in unity with the Father 

 that he was in the Father, and the Father in him, and in 

 whose celestial purity, disinterested and unbounded love, and 

 life-long labors and sacrifices for the good of humanity, we 



