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virtuous was, not by doing good and virtuous deeds, but 

 by believing that Christ's death was an atonement for 

 sin, and His merits a fund of righteousness for which 

 they who thus believed were to be rewarded. Certainly, 

 thought I, if the Christian religion be not a true one, it 

 is not a cunningly devised fable ; for its mysteries are 

 either not far enough removed from the examination of 

 the rational faculties, or too directly opposed to the con- 

 clusions which they must necessarily form. The mys- 

 tery of the Trinity I regarded as an exception to this ; 

 the nature of God is so little known to man that I could 

 neither believe nor doubt it/ 



In this abrupt and unsatisfactory manner the docu- 

 ment ends. It will appear in the sequel that evidence 

 exists in other quarters, enabling us to trace the essential 

 facts of Miller's spiritual history. 



