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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 35

duty, and have made it your business, to see and hear the wonderful man yourselves? to examine his doctrines and pretensions impartially? to acquaint yourselves with the tenor of his life and conversation? to remove from your own hearts every unreasonable suspicion, jealousy, or prejudice, which might pervert your judgment? in short, so to consult, by sincerity and purity of intention, the divine will and wisdom in yourselves, that you might know of the doctrine whether it were of God^ or whether the speaker spaker of himself? ....

A COMMON OBJECTION CONSIDERED.

" But methinks I hear you urge, as a final and unanswerable argument against acceding to the testimony of Swedenborg, that the dispensation of grace and truth in Jesus Christ, when he became incarnate here on earth, is the last and crowning dispensation which God hath to offer unto mankind; that it is all- complete and all-sufficient for every purpose of salvation, being the end of the law and the prophets, and containing so full and perfect a revelation of the will of the Creator to his creatures, as to supersede the necessity of any further dispensation; consequently no further dispensation is to be expected, and nothing is required of the ministers of the gospel but to believe in and preach Jesus Christ and obedience to his com-

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