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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 19

and Redemption, on the Divine Trinity, on the Sacred Scriptures or Word of God, on the Decalogue, on Faith, on Charity, on Free-will, on Repentance, on Reformation and Regeneration, on Imputation, on Baptism, on the Holy Supper, on the Consummation of the Age, the Advent of the Lord, and the New Heaven and the New Church, it seemed as if continually increasing blaze of new and re-creating light was poured forth on the delighted understanding, opening it to the contemplation of the most sublime mysteries of wisdom, and convincing it of the being of a God, of the existence of an eternal world, of the interior sanctities of the Holy Scriptures, of the true nature of creation, redemption and regeneration, in a manner and degree, and with a force of satisfactory evidence, in which those interesting subjects had never been viewed before.

" The mind, therefore, was no longer perplexed about the proper Object of its worship, because it was enlightened to see clearly — as by the light of a meridian sun — that Jesus Christ in his Divine Humanity is that Object, He being the Creator from eternity, the Redeemer in time, and the Regenerator to eternity, thus containing in his own Divine Person the sacred Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit; the Father being his hidden essence, the Son his manifested existence, and the Holy Spirit his proceeding operation. In