We were lately so much struck
with two independent testimonies to this fact, proceeding from
persons, one in sympathy with the Quakers, and the other with the
Calvinistic Church, that we have begged the privilege to transcribe
an extract from two private letters, in order that we might bring
them together.
The Calvinist writes to his Correspondent after this manner.
"All the peculiarities of the theology, denominated
Trinitarian, are directly or indirectly transcendental. The
sinfulness of man involves the supposition of a nature in man, which
transcends all limits of animal life and of social moralities. The
reality of spirit, in the highest sense of that holy word, as the
essence of God and the inward ground and law of man's being and
doing, is supposed both in the fact of sin, and the possibility of
redemption of sin. The mystery of the Father revealed only in the
Son as the Word of Life, the Light which illumines every man,
outwardly in the incarnation and offering for sin, inwardly as the
Christ in us, energetic and quickening in the inspirations of the
Holy Spirit, -- the great mystery wherein we find redemption, this,
like the rest, is transcendental.
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