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AN APPEAL
God and the favor of his divine majesty maybe obtained
by sincere repentance, as required of sinners by the
Redeemer.
As to the second point, that is: How to be enabled
to overcome our passions, and keep the commandments
of God : —we are not left unprovided for in that respect,
as our gracious Saviour has promised every strength
and power as necessary consequences of earnest prayer
and hearty desire. Matthew, ch. vii, ver. 7, and Lukty
ch. xi. ver, 9,13: "Ask and it shall be given you, seek
and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto
you." " If ye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your
Father which is in heaven give good things to them
that ask him. " Luke, ch. xi. ver. 9 : "I say unto you,
Ask and it shall be given you." After a due attention
to these and to numerous passages of the some effect, no
one who believes in the divine message of Jesus of
Nazareth, or even in the truth of his doctrine only can
be at all at a loss to find adequate means of attaining
those two ends, justly considered to be most essential by
the Reviewer.
4. The Reviewer imputes to the Compiler, error
in exalting the value of the moral doctrines above that
of the historical facts and dogmas contained in the New
Testament. This imputation, I humbly maintain, can
be of no weighUor force against the authority of Jesus
himself, as quoted in the above texts ; which clearly
shew, that there is ,no other means of attaining eternal
life except the performance of our duties towards God
in obeying his commandments. That the aim and ob-
ject' of all the commanclments of God is to teach us
AN APPEAL
God and the favor of his divine majesty maybe obtained
by sincere repentance, as required of sinners by the
Redeemer.
As to the second point, that is: How to be enabled
to overcome our passions, and keep the commandments
of God : —we are not left unprovided for in that respect,
as our gracious Saviour has promised every strength
and power as necessary consequences of earnest prayer
and hearty desire. Matthew, ch. vii, ver. 7, and Lukty
ch. xi. ver, 9,13: "Ask and it shall be given you, seek
and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto
you." " If ye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your
Father which is in heaven give good things to them
that ask him. " Luke, ch. xi. ver. 9 : "I say unto you,
Ask and it shall be given you." After a due attention
to these and to numerous passages of the some effect, no
one who believes in the divine message of Jesus of
Nazareth, or even in the truth of his doctrine only can
be at all at a loss to find adequate means of attaining
those two ends, justly considered to be most essential by
the Reviewer.
4. The Reviewer imputes to the Compiler, error
in exalting the value of the moral doctrines above that
of the historical facts and dogmas contained in the New
Testament. This imputation, I humbly maintain, can
be of no weighUor force against the authority of Jesus
himself, as quoted in the above texts ; which clearly
shew, that there is ,no other means of attaining eternal
life except the performance of our duties towards God
in obeying his commandments. That the aim and ob-
ject' of all the commanclments of God is to teach us