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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 39

boldness to oppose the conclusions of a sound philosophy, as well as of a sound theology; and you need not be informed that, had the voice of prejudice prevailed, the brightest discoveries of the most able philosopher that ever contemplated the works of the God of nature, had still laid buried in obscurity.

" I wish only further to observe on the subject, that it is impossible for you to read many pages of the writings in question, seriously, and in a Christian spirit, without discovering some things of importance which must needs affect every well-disposed mind. You will see, for example, the Divinity of the Christian Redeemer, and his oneness with the Father, principally insisted upon, and demonstrated with such a power of solid proof, deduced from the Sacred Scriptures in general, as will supply the most effectual antidote against the poisonous tenets of modern Arianism and Socinianism. You will see, also, the sacred doctrine of the Holy Trinity explained, and elucidated in a manner so simple and yet sublime, so agreeable to the Word of God and at the same time so consonant to sound reason, so satisfactory to the understanding and so edifying to the life, that you will wonder how so much darkness could ever prevail in the world respecting so bright and clear a truth; but you will wonder still more, that now the

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