It is ruinous, but let it be repaired by thee," &c.
The Unitarian Church, as Mr. Brownson thinks, indicates truth,
in so far as it insists on the life of Jesus as being that wherein we
find grace; but in so far as it does not perceive that this life is
something more than a series of good actions, which others may
reproduce, it leans on an arm of flesh, and puts an idol in the place
of Christ. The Trinitarian Church, he thinks, therefore, has come
nearer the truth, by its formulas of doctrine; and especially the
Roman Catholic Church, by the Eucharist. The error of both Churches
has been to predicate of the being, Jesus, what is only true of his
life. The being, Jesus, was a man; his life is God. It is the
doctrine of John the Evangelist throughout, that the soul lives by
the real presence of Jesus Christ, as literally as the body lives by
bread. The unchristianized live only partially, by so much of the
word as shines in the darkness which may not hinder it quite. This
partial life repeats in all time the prophecies of antiquity, and is
another witness to Jesus Christ, "the same yesterday, to-day, and
forever.
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