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saints, the more we shall be convinced of this 

 truth ; and it will be a salutary counterpart thereto, 

 that we shall find all their systems fall to the 

 tjround one after another. This indeed has been 

 the discovery that has resulted from all my en- 

 quiries into them ; and thus have I become con- 

 vinced that he who, trustini^- to private judi^ment, 

 assumes the cameleon garb of a philosopher, 

 doth in reality put on the spotted coat of a fool, 

 and sells his soul, for a mess of carnal pottage, to 

 the tyranny of a capricious faction, in comparison 

 to which the pretended dungeons of the incpiisition 

 would be a paradise. 



That there are many things in religion very 

 difficult for the understanding there can be no 

 doubt ; but were they made plainer, there would 

 be less scope for the salutary exercise of faith ; 

 and we ought to remember that all we know in 

 this world of exterior objects is from their images 

 viewed in the corporeal sensoriura of this im- 

 perfect body in which God has placed our trial ; 

 and which is the darkened glass, mentioned by 

 St. Paul, on whose dim surface the shadows of 

 passing things are cast. The addition of one 

 more sense might open a more perfect field of 

 view ; and it is possible that God, in the more 

 glorified body promised to the just, may expand 

 our knowledge by the addition of a thousand/ 

 We had better to wait for this momentous change 



