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mandments, which will be abundantly competent to secure every possible blessing both to themselves and the people committed to their care. — It is granted: The dispensation of grace and truth in Jesus Christ is as you represent it, all-complete and all-sufficient; and it will assuredly be well with you and with your people, and you can want no other dispensation to secure your eternal happiness, if Jesus Christ be preached, and his commandments obeyed. But let me ask, is this the case?

" In the first place, is Jesus Christ preached? Do you believe on him yourselves as the one only Lord AND God of Heaven and Earth, and do you teach your people so to believe on him? Do you acknowledge the Father and the Son to be one in Him, as he Himself hath taught? and that of consequence He is the manifested Jehovah, the sole Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator of man? Or rather, have not some among you entirely rejected this your God, by denying his Divinity? And have not others divided this one only Lord and God into three, making one God of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost? Do you not regard Jesus Christ either as a mere creature, or as a Divine Person separate from, and subordinate to, the Father? Do you not regard the Holy Ghost as a Person separate from both, assigning to each separately distinct attributes

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