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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 4 1

forma judgment of the soundness of its constitution. You will see, also, pointed out, the root whence such anti-Christian evils and errors have sprung — how they have all originated in mistaken ideas of the Divine Being, his nature and mode of existence and operation, and in the consequent separation of the three essential of Christian life and salvation, viz.: charity, faith and good works.

  • ' And while you lament the unhappy causes and consequences of such an unscriptural and irrational theology which you will here see figuratively depicted under the significative images of Dragon^ Beast, false Prophet, and the great Whore, mentioned in the Revelation, you will not fail to rejoice in the prospect of an order of pure truth and doctrine about to be manifested from Heaven to mankind, signified and represented by the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, whereby all false, perverted principles of faith and life will be dissipated in such minds as are meet for its reception ; and the understanding be enlightened, the will purified, and the life be restored to the order of heaven ; a near and blessed conjunction will again take place between the Creator and his creatures, predicted and described in these words : ' The tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them their God'
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