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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: The Church and the Census - A Tract for the Times - - -Author: James Skinner - - - -Release Date: March 20, 2021 [eBook #64877] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHURCH AND THE CENSUS*** - - -Transcribed from the 1860 Joseph Masters edition by David Price. Many -thanks to the British Library for making their copy available. - - A TRACT FOR THE TIMES. - - * * * * * - - - - - - THE CHURCH - AND - THE CENSUS. - - - * * * * * - - BY THE - REV. JAMES SKINNER, M.A. - - * * * * * - - LONDON: - JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET, - AND NEW BOND STREET. - - MDCCCLX. - - * * * * * - - LONDON: - PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS AND CO., - ALDERSGATE STREET. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHURCH AND THE CENSUS. - - -I DESIRE to say what follows, in all earnestness, to my fellow-countrymen -who have been, through GOD’S goodness, baptized into the Church of -England. I shall be thankful, also, if others will patiently consider -what is here set down. - -There can be no question that, in old times, GOD was pleased to set up a -visible token, whereby the world might be convinced of His power and -love. And this token was also a witness to GOD’S Truth. No one doubts -that the Jewish Church and nation were the witnesses of GOD; and that -they were His witnesses by His own express appointment. It is equally -allowed, on all hands, that the Jewish Church and nation failed in their -witness. They failed—not because the need of witnessing had been taken -away; or their authority to witness had been loosened. But they failed, -because, having the power of choice free—to stand by GOD or to desert -Him, they chose to desert Him. They failed, because they chose to blind -themselves to the need of witnessing. They failed, because they chose to -set at nought that authority to witness with which they had been clothed. -GOD’S law of always having His witness did not fail. The very failure of -the Jewish Church and nation, in the place of witness, _was_ a witness. -The Jewish Church and nation could desert its place of witness. It could -prefer its own will to GOD’S will. It could prefer the will of the -people to the will of GOD. It could prefer the kingdom of this world to -the kingdom of Heaven. And it _did_ prefer its own will, and the will of -the people, and the kingdom of this world. - -Look at the prophecy of Hosea, and what is there said of all Israel in -the name of Ephraim. Read the seventh chapter. The Prophet is reproving -the sins of the princes, and the great men of Israel. “All their kings -are fallen.” The flame of civil discord has spread, and dried up the -sources of legitimate authority among them. An anarchy of eleven years, -after the death of Jeroboam II., has terminated in the assassination of -Zachariah and his successors Shallum and Pekahiah. “And yet there is -none among them that calleth unto Me,” saith the LORD. - -And then, he denounces judgment against the people in the mass, for their -hypocrisy and unfaithfulness. Whereas, by GOD’S institution, they were a -peculiar people,—witnesses for GOD, and separate from the world, “they -have mixed themselves among the people,”—that is, among the idolaters of -the land,—they are “as a cake not turned,” as a cake baked only on one -side; serving GOD by halves, halting between two masters; worshipping GOD -a little, and worshipping idols a little, and worshipping nothing much. -And so, as a consequence, what must have followed, _did_ follow. The -Syrians, in the time of Jehoahaz, reduced them to great straits. They -had but fifty horsemen and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen. {5} -They were “made like the dust by threshing.” Shortly after, in the days -of Menahem, they became tributaries to Pul, king of Assyria. {6} And at -length they were carried away captive bodily by Shalmaneser. - -Now, all this has a forcible application to a spiritual state of things, -and sets forth the condition of the Church in the world, as at other -times, so especially at this time in which we live. - -Ephraim is the witness of GOD—testifying GOD’S Truth,—bearing GOD’S -commission—appointed in the world to win and attract the people,—to draw -them upward, far above worldly measures of things to the divine measure -of things—to the things which shall be in the eternal Future, and to the -fixed and unchangeable will of GOD, on which that eternal Future stands. -But “Ephraim hath mixed himself” with the people,—he has “learned their -inventions,”—he has adapted his witness to their demands,—he has lowered -his standard of GOD’S appointment to the people’s standard of human -construction. So that GOD’S teaching and man’s teaching have become -confused and indifferently accepted, and they who have fallen into grave -errors of faith are in no sense differently esteemed from those who have -maintained the truth as revealed by GOD, and as witnessed by the Church -in every land, in every age, by every tongue. - -And so, the spiritual Ephraim, who was set up for a witness to the truth, -has become “a cake not turned,” a half-equipped soldier in the fight, -with but half a heart to his Master’s service. - -What is the occasion which now presses? While many of us are praising -GOD in grateful love for His unspeakable mercy in vouchsafing us His -Truth—His determinate and fixed Truth—in which alone souls are saved—His -Truth, as divinely committed to the Church “the pillar and ground of the -Truth,”—and handed down from age to age in every land,—His Truth as -mercifully retained and maintained in the Prayer Book of the Church of -England,—set forth with categorical precision in the three Creeds of -universal Christendom, and expanded and applied in the offices of Holy -Baptism and the Communion of the Body and Blood of CHRIST—while we are -keeping solemn festival to the Glory of GOD, and the power of His Truth, -the “religious world” is exciting itself with vexing hopes and fears -about the decennial Census which the State is about to take of the -religious condition of the country. - -I do not believe that this question excites churchmen, or that they care, -except as a matter of political justice, what becomes of it. For -themselves they know what they are, and where they stand, and in Whom -they trust. And they are “ready always to give an answer to every man -that asketh them a reason of the hope that is in them.” With no -“uncertain sound,” or doubting heart, but with plainness and boldness, as -Christian men and women, “standing fast in one spirit, with one mind -striving together for the faith of the Gospel, and nothing terrified by -their adversaries.” {8} - -But it is a question full of importance, because of the evidence which it -draws out of the condition of men’s minds among whom we live, and because -of the lesson which that evidence reads to ourselves. - -I do not enter upon the question whether it is right or wrong for the -state to ask people about their religion. My own conviction is that, -under the distracting circumstances of religion in this country, it would -be better and wiser for the state to abstain. And yet in common sense -the state may as well demand information as to my religious profession, -as in respect of my age or worldly calling. But the question having been -raised, what is this evidence which it has brought to light, and which I -say is so grave in its results? There is a vehement, almost a -_passionate_ resistance of the proposition, that men should give an -account of their faith. - -It is true that JESUS CHRIST, the very Saviour and Redeemer of our souls, -has said, “Whosoever shall confess Me _before men_, him will I confess -also before My FATHER which is in heaven; and whosoever shall deny Me -_before men_, him will I also deny before My FATHER which is in heaven.” -{9a} But people on all sides are saying, “not so—not before -men,—religion is a private and secret matter between GOD and me.” - -It is true that holy David declared that “he would _speak_ even before -kings and not be ashamed,” {9b} that S. John Baptist “confessed and -denied not, but confessed;” {9c} that S. Paul, for himself, “continued -_witnessing_ to small and great,” {10a} and in the name of all Christians -laid it down that “we believe and _therefore speak_,” {10b} and that -“every _tongue_ should confess.” {10c} But people on all sides are -saying, “Not so—not confess, not witness, not speak,—any other test you -please; number us as we sit here or stand there; but do not ask us to -speak. We prefer to take our place with the ‘chief rulers who believed, -but did not confess;’—we believe, but do not ask us to confess.” - -And this resistance has two sides—one political, and the other -quasi-religious. - -Political men resist, because they say the Church of England holds them, -and yet does _not_ hold them. It holds them politically, gives them, if -they demand it, baptism, or communion, or churching, or burial. Yet it -does _not_ hold them because they object to her services, and usages, and -prefer preachers of their own, and _other_ doctrines than hers. “We are -Churchmen,” say these people, “in one sense, though not in another; and -therefore we prefer not to define ourselves at all. We go to ‘meeting,’ -but we have not parted final company with the Church. And as -excommunication can alone sever the bond between us, we are glad that -excommunication is now unknown.” - -Such is one side of the opposition to the notion of defining their faith. -How shall they define it? Once perhaps when the Catechism was fresh upon -the soft and docile mind of their childhood they might have been able, -but now that is a mere reminiscence. They know not to-day what they may -believe to-morrow. Meantime they will hold on to the Church as to a -secular institution, and do what they can to secularize it. It will -become more useful and less mischievous in their opinion, just as men -cease to regard it as a “witness” for the glory of GOD, and a training -school for the salvation of souls. - -The other side of the same opposition has more appearance of religious -feeling about it. Men object to define their faith, because really and -conscientiously they _have_ no faith which they _can_ define. “False -shame,” “procrastination,” “self-distrust in honourable minds,” (as it -has been mischievously called, {11}) “consciousness of imperfection,” -such are the pleas with which they indulgently flatter themselves. They -are not yet ripe for any “visible Church;” so they ignorantly and -complacently express it; they mean to wait; they are not unchristian -because they dare not make choice of a denomination _yet_. Surely not. -By and by will be time enough. They will make a profession some day -though not now. - -When I hear on every side as I mix with my fellow men, and read in every -newspaper, as I strive to note down the voice of the public press as it -gains upon the popular mind, such sentiments as these, I am bound to say -that if this be not spiritually the reproduction of the picture of -Ephraim, as Hosea drew it in the days of Israel’s apostasy, and as such, -if it be not the accomplishment among ourselves of a prophetic -announcement which spiritually concerned the Church of CHRIST, I know not -where to find a prophecy fulfilled. “Ephraim he hath mixed himself among -the people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his -strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, grey hairs are here and there upon -him; yet he knoweth not.” {12} - -I will now presume to say something in the presence of this calamity -which afflicts the Church of CHRIST in England. - -I. First, I will say that as Truth is one and indivisible, so your faith -as English Churchmen, with the Cross of CHRIST upon your foreheads,—and -the bond of the “Apostles’ doctrine and fellowship” in your hearts,—and -the Prayer Book with its Catholic witness in your hands, is fixed, and -easily defined. - -It is fixed, because otherwise it could not be the Truth. And you -possess that which is fixed, because otherwise that which you possess -could not be true. The Church of GOD is “the pillar and ground of the -Truth;” {13} and you have the Truth from the Church of GOD. - -The Church of GOD does not create the Truth. The Church of GOD does not -even give force and power to the Truth. But the Church of GOD is the -depositary of the Truth. The Church of GOD has the Truth to keep, and to -maintain, and to hand down. The Church of GOD is the orb, out of which -the glorious light of the Truth shines and overspreads the earth. The -Church of GOD is the candlestick which holds the light. The Church of -GOD is the pillar on which the proclamation of the Truth is written, and -held up and heralded through the world. You learn truth from that -pillar. And that pillar is the Church of GOD? - -What Church of GOD? The one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of GOD. -The same which delivered the “decrees of the Apostles and elders at -Jerusalem:” {14} the same which confounded Arius at Nicæa: the same which -overwhelmed Nestorius at Ephesus: the same which silenced Macedonius at -Constantinople: the same which vanquished Eutyches at Chalcedon:—the one -Holy Church throughout the world. - -2. Next, I desire to lay down this—that, contrary to what the advocates -of a religious census seem to imply—truth and numbers have no relation -one to the other, unless it be that truth is with the few. The greatest -number of mankind is yet in darkness and error; as S. John says, “the -world lieth in wickedness.” - -All GOD’S Word testifies that, compared with the many who forsake the -truth, or who never accept it, or who deny it and lose its fruits, those -who receive it, and live by it, and enter into its reward, are few. Of -all the world at the time of the Flood only eight persons were worthy to -be rescued. Among all the guilty families in the cities of the plain, -only Lot’s escaped destruction. Of all the six hundred thousand Hebrews -delivered out of Egypt, though blessed with the same miracles, conducted -by the same Guide, and nourished by the same Manna, two only entered the -promised land. In the taking of Jericho, of all the houses in the city -only the harlot Rahab’s was spared. Of all the thirty and two thousand -soldiers of Gideon, but three hundred were found worthy to contend for -the LORD. And so, of all those olive berries and clusters of grapes set -forth by the Prophet to describe the called of GOD,—there shall be saved -only “as the shaking of the olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes, when -the vintage is done.” {15} - -Therefore Religion is not for show, but for reality. GOD is for Truth, -and not for numbers. And they who are truly wise must be content, as the -Apostles of old were content, to have numbers against them, if so it be, -and to pass in turn through good and evil report, in the honest and -simple defence of what is true. - -This facing of the Truth against numbers is a necessity. And if you seek -to shun it, you are sure nevertheless to encounter it; and with all the -more roughness, for your efforts to escape it. If you side with the -multitude, you will probably be magnified by those who are in the wrong. -But you will hardly escape being censured by those who are in the right. -And their commendation, if it makes less noise, has more value. - -You must not be dismayed, therefore, because the world is against you. -You must not begin a course of action because it is popular; nor must you -abandon a course of action because it is decried. Look to what pleases -GOD, not to what will please the multitude. And then you will do what is -right. You will be wise for GOD. And GOD is over all. - -3. Once more. No earnest mind can entertain the thought of what is -passing among us, without feeling that these are sifting times. Times of -division, when errors abound, are always times of sifting; times in which -GOD is trying what men are made of; whether they are corn or chaff, gold -or dross, wheat or tares. - -Ephraim is “a cake not turned.” But who are guilty? “I will sift the -House of Israel,” saith the LORD, “as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet -shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.” {17a} This is the one -comfort in the midst of so much sorrow. Whosoever is true grain, shall -not be lost. See to it, then, that each soul among you is _true grain_. - -GOD is sifting your sincerity by the errors which He suffers to compass -you about. “I hear there are divisions among you, and I believe it,” -says the Apostle, “for there _must_ be heresies among you, that they -which are approved may be made manifest.” {17b} And your stability He is -sifting—whether or not you are as Reuben, “unstable as water,” weak, and -soft, and yielding, and inconstant. And your zeal, and your knowledge, -and your love,—He is sifting all these, in this your day of probation. - -You have had great gifts at GOD’S Hand, unspeakable opportunities of -knowing Him and His Truth—the Word of GOD, the witness of the Church, and -the “Spirit leading you into all Truth” through the ordained means of -grace—through Sacraments and Prayer. How is it with you? Are you yet -“men” in knowledge, with the “full assurance of understanding to the -acknowledgment of the mystery of GOD, and of the FATHER, and of CHRIST, -in Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” {18a} Or are -you “children in understanding,” “tossed to and fro and carried about -with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness -whereby they lie in wait to deceive?” {18b} - -Now is the test of your weakness or of your strength. Now it will be -seen _who_ is possessed by that enervated and timid spirit which inspires -so many faltering hearts, and directs so many enfeebled wills, in this -day of conflict for the Church of GOD. - -And, above all, your love is being sifted. Is your hold upon the Church -and her teaching “rooted and grounded in love?” GOD is trying your -_love_—your love to Himself, to CHRIST, to the Truth. The head is not a -casket in which Truth can safely lie enshrined. It is soon stolen from -thence. But, if you have lodged it in the heart, and embedded it there -in folds of love, men may take out your heart, but out of your heart they -cannot take the Truth. - -It is for want of love that so many men among us are cowards,—that so -much is sacrificed to the first appearance of danger,—that so much is -offered up to expediency, to popularity, to success. The world is a -worshipper of success. But the world has no love for the Truth. The -world knows nothing of the blessed joy of undergoing persecution and -danger, and making ventures, for the Truth’s sake. And so, as “Ephraim -has mixed himself” with the world, he is as “a cake not turned,” and -“strangers have devoured his strength,” in this age of concession and -falling away. - -But what says “He Who sitteth upon the throne?” “He that overcometh -shall inherit all things.” {19} But the “fearful” or cowardly, (the -_δειλοὶ_,) and the unfaithful or “unbelieving” (the _ἄπιστοι_,) the -deserters who fall off from want of faith and patience, what of them? -“they shall have their part with murderers, and whore-mongers, and -idolaters, and liars, in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, -which is the second death.” {20a} - -And what says the Apostle? When love is perfect {20b} then we have -“boldness in the _crisis_,” or judgment, or trial, of faith; and “love -casts out fear.” And fear is the parent of all unlawful concessions. - -We owe the Truth an external service as well as an internal devotion. -And they have no love for the Truth who withhold an external service. -The faith of the heart will no more avail without the confession of the -mouth, than the confession of the mouth will avail without the faith of -the heart. - -If it be enough for CHRIST that you know Him, though you confess Him not -before men, it will also be enough for you that He knows you, though, at -the last, He confess you not before men. It is not enough to say, “I -hold the Truth in my heart, but I am silent before the world.” And, -therefore, CHRIST does _not_ say, “he that confesseth Me in his heart;” -but CHRIST says, “he that confesseth Me _before men_.” They are vital -words, these words of CHRIST. Lay them up in your hearts, and live by -them. Hear them at length. “Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him -will I confess also before My FATHER Which is in Heaven. But whosoever -shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My FATHER Which is -in Heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not -to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance -against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the -daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s foes shall be they -of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than Me is -not worthy of Me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not -worthy of Me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after Me is -not worthy of Me. He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that -loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” {21} - - - - -POSTSCRIPT. - - -WHILE these pages are passing through the press, the Government has -yielded the point at issue. It has yielded, against its own convictions. -It has yielded to pressure,—and to pressure from those whom it considers -wrong-headed, and unreasonable, and unjust. - -The Government believed and declared that it was fair, and right, and -just, and necessary “for legislative purposes,” that the people of -England should _confess_ the religious profession which they make—each -man his own. The Government still believes in the fairness, and justice, -and necessity of such a declaration. But, because some persons object to -it, on the ground that no man ought to be asked what his religion is, or -whether he has any religion at all, and because those persons have -political influence, the Government has yielded its convictions to those -persons. - -The Government loves its convictions a little. It loves political -influence much. And so, this has come out clear—whatever is just, and -fair, and right, and even necessary for “legislative purposes,” has no -chance of prevailing in the counsels of Government, unless, _first_, the -political influence of the Government shall be secured. If on the side -of injustice, and unfairness, and the entanglement and perversion of -legislation, there should be political influence, that will be the side -of the Government. Evil consequences in the future are nothing. Present -place and present power are everything. - -I think this ought to be a lesson to Churchmen not to put faith in -Governments. The Church can never lose by any measures which are just, -and fair, and straightforward, and open. And, therefore, the Church had -nothing to lose from the “religious profession” clause of the Census -Bill. But as Governments do not bind themselves to keep their faith, and -are always ready to sacrifice their convictions of justice to their lust -of power, the Church must have no trust in Governments. - -The object of this tract is not affected by the weak and pitiful conduct -of the Government. It never was my object to defend the “religious -profession” clause. I have said that, considering the religious -distractions of this country, I think it would be wiser for the -Government to leave the religious profession of the people alone. And I -say so still. Never to have proposed a Census of religious opinions at -all would have been wise. But, to have proposed it—to have stoutly -maintained the justice of it—to have asserted the necessity of it for -equitable legislation,—and then, to have withdrawn it to satisfy an -unreasoning handful of Dissenters, who make themselves heard in the House -of Commons, is not to be characterized by any negative form of judgment. -This is not simply want of wisdom. It is more like that moral imbecility -which, in men whom GOD has burdened with a high trust, is really a crime. - -The object of this tract remains. And therefore, notwithstanding the -course which the Government has taken, I send it forth to effect that -object, as opportunity shall be found. I ask my countrymen and -countrywomen—Christian men and women—simply to consider, as in the -presence of GOD, these two appalling facts, which the discussion of the -Census Bill has forced to the surface, in this day of _Crisis_ for the -Truth. - -1. That thousands of baptized souls in England are content to believe -nothing in particular. - -2. That thousands more who protest that they _do_ believe something in -particular, protest also that they cannot “confess” that something -“before men.” - - * * * * * - - _Price_ 2_d._, _or_ 10_s._ _per_ 100 _for distribution_. - - * * * * * - - * * * * * - - JOSEPH MASTERS AND CO., PRINTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET. - - - - -FOOTNOTES. - - -{5} 2 Kings xiii. 7. - -{6} 2 Kings xv. 19. - -{8} Phil. i. 27, 28. - -{9a} S. Matt. x. 32. - -{9b} Ps. cxix. 46. - -{9c} S. John i. 20. - -{10a} Acts xxvi. 22. - -{10b} 2 Cor. iv. 13. - -{10c} Phil. ii. 11. - -{11} See _Daily News_ of May 11, 1860. - -{12} Hosea vii. 9. - -{13} 1 Tim. iii. 15. - -{14} Acts xv. - -{15} Isa. xxiv. 13. - -{17a} Amos ix. 9. - -{17b} 1 Cor. xi. 19. - -{18a} Col. ii. 2. - -{18b} Eph. iv. 14. - -{19} Rev. xxi. 7. - -{20a} Rev. xxi. 8. - -{20b} 1 S. John iv. 17, 18. - -{21} S. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: The Church and the Census - A Tract for the Times - - -Author: James Skinner - - - -Release Date: March 20, 2021 [eBook #64877] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHURCH AND THE CENSUS*** -</pre> -<p>Transcribed from the 1860 Joseph Masters edition by David -Price. Many thanks to the British Library for making their -copy available.</p> -<p style="text-align: center">A TRACT FOR THE TIMES.</p> - -<div class="gapshortline"> </div> -<h1>THE CHURCH<br /> -<span class="GutSmall">AND</span><br /> -THE CENSUS.</h1> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> -<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY -THE</span><br /> -REV. JAMES SKINNER, M.A.</p> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> -<p style="text-align: center"><span -class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br /> -<span class="GutSmall">JOSEPH MASTERS, ALDERSGATE -STREET,</span><br /> -<span class="GutSmall">AND NEW BOND STREET.</span></p> -<p style="text-align: center"><span -class="GutSmall">MDCCCLX.</span></p> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> -<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page2"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 2</span><span -class="GutSmall">LONDON:</span><br /> -<span class="GutSmall">PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS AND -CO.,</span><br /> -<span class="GutSmall">ALDERSGATE STREET.</span></p> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> -<h2><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 3</span>THE -CHURCH AND THE CENSUS.</h2> -<p>I <span class="smcap">desire</span> to say what follows, in -all earnestness, to my fellow-countrymen who have been, through -<span class="smcap">God’s</span> goodness, baptized into -the Church of England. I shall be thankful, also, if others -will patiently consider what is here set down.</p> -<p>There can be no question that, in old times, <span -class="smcap">God</span> was pleased to set up a visible token, -whereby the world might be convinced of His power and love. -And this token was also a witness to <span -class="smcap">God’s</span> Truth. No one doubts that -the Jewish Church and nation were the witnesses of <span -class="smcap">God</span>; and that they were His witnesses by His -own express appointment. It is equally allowed, on all -hands, that the Jewish Church and nation failed in their -witness. They <a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -4</span>failed—not because the need of witnessing had been -taken away; or their authority to witness had been -loosened. But they failed, because, having the power of -choice free—to stand by <span class="smcap">God</span> or -to desert Him, they chose to desert Him. They failed, -because they chose to blind themselves to the need of -witnessing. They failed, because they chose to set at -nought that authority to witness with which they had been -clothed. <span class="smcap">God’s</span> law of -always having His witness did not fail. The very failure of -the Jewish Church and nation, in the place of witness, <i>was</i> -a witness. The Jewish Church and nation could desert its -place of witness. It could prefer its own will to <span -class="smcap">God’s</span> will. It could prefer the -will of the people to the will of <span -class="smcap">God</span>. It could prefer the kingdom of -this world to the kingdom of Heaven. And it <i>did</i> -prefer its own will, and the will of the people, and the kingdom -of this world.</p> -<p>Look at the prophecy of Hosea, and what is there said of all -Israel in the name of Ephraim. Read the seventh -chapter. The Prophet is reproving the sins of the princes, -and the great men of Israel. “All their kings are -fallen.” The flame of civil discord has spread, and -dried <a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 5</span>up the -sources of legitimate authority among them. An anarchy of -eleven years, after the death of Jeroboam II., has terminated in -the assassination of Zachariah and his successors Shallum and -Pekahiah. “And yet there is none among them that -calleth unto Me,” saith the <span -class="smcap">Lord</span>.</p> -<p>And then, he denounces judgment against the people in the -mass, for their hypocrisy and unfaithfulness. Whereas, by -<span class="smcap">God’s</span> institution, they were a -peculiar people,—witnesses for <span -class="smcap">God</span>, and separate from the world, -“they have mixed themselves among the -people,”—that is, among the idolaters of the -land,—they are “as a cake not turned,” as a -cake baked only on one side; serving <span -class="smcap">God</span> by halves, halting between two masters; -worshipping <span class="smcap">God</span> a little, and -worshipping idols a little, and worshipping nothing much. -And so, as a consequence, what must have followed, <i>did</i> -follow. The Syrians, in the time of Jehoahaz, reduced them -to great straits. They had but fifty horsemen and ten -chariots, and ten thousand footmen. <a name="citation5"></a><a -href="#footnote5" class="citation">[5]</a> They were -“made like the dust by threshing.” Shortly -after, in the days of Menahem, they <a name="page6"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 6</span>became tributaries to Pul, king of -Assyria. <a name="citation6"></a><a href="#footnote6" -class="citation">[6]</a> And at length they were carried -away captive bodily by Shalmaneser.</p> -<p>Now, all this has a forcible application to a spiritual state -of things, and sets forth the condition of the Church in the -world, as at other times, so especially at this time in which we -live.</p> -<p>Ephraim is the witness of <span -class="smcap">God</span>—testifying <span -class="smcap">God’s</span> Truth,—bearing <span -class="smcap">God’s</span> commission—appointed in -the world to win and attract the people,—to draw them -upward, far above worldly measures of things to the divine -measure of things—to the things which shall be in the -eternal Future, and to the fixed and unchangeable will of <span -class="smcap">God</span>, on which that eternal Future -stands. But “Ephraim hath mixed himself” with -the people,—he has “learned their -inventions,”—he has adapted his witness to their -demands,—he has lowered his standard of <span -class="smcap">God’s</span> appointment to the -people’s standard of human construction. So that -<span class="smcap">God’s</span> teaching and man’s -teaching have become confused and indifferently accepted, and -they who have fallen into grave errors of faith are in no sense -differently esteemed from those <a name="page7"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 7</span>who have maintained the truth as -revealed by <span class="smcap">God</span>, and as witnessed by -the Church in every land, in every age, by every tongue.</p> -<p>And so, the spiritual Ephraim, who was set up for a witness to -the truth, has become “a cake not turned,” a -half-equipped soldier in the fight, with but half a heart to his -Master’s service.</p> -<p>What is the occasion which now presses? While many of us -are praising <span class="smcap">God</span> in grateful love for -His unspeakable mercy in vouchsafing us His Truth—His -determinate and fixed Truth—in which alone souls are -saved—His Truth, as divinely committed to the Church -“the pillar and ground of the Truth,”—and -handed down from age to age in every land,—His Truth as -mercifully retained and maintained in the Prayer Book of the -Church of England,—set forth with categorical precision in -the three Creeds of universal Christendom, and expanded and -applied in the offices of Holy Baptism and the Communion of the -Body and Blood of <span class="smcap">Christ</span>—while -we are keeping solemn festival to the Glory of <span -class="smcap">God</span>, and the power of His Truth, the -“religious world” is exciting itself with vexing -hopes and fears about the decennial <a name="page8"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 8</span>Census which the State is about to -take of the religious condition of the country.</p> -<p>I do not believe that this question excites churchmen, or that -they care, except as a matter of political justice, what becomes -of it. For themselves they know what they are, and where -they stand, and in Whom they trust. And they are -“ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh -them a reason of the hope that is in them.” With no -“uncertain sound,” or doubting heart, but with -plainness and boldness, as Christian men and women, -“standing fast in one spirit, with one mind striving -together for the faith of the Gospel, and nothing terrified by -their adversaries.” <a name="citation8"></a><a -href="#footnote8" class="citation">[8]</a></p> -<p>But it is a question full of importance, because of the -evidence which it draws out of the condition of men’s minds -among whom we live, and because of the lesson which that evidence -reads to ourselves.</p> -<p>I do not enter upon the question whether it is right or wrong -for the state to ask people about their religion. My own -conviction is that, under the distracting circumstances of -religion in this country, it would be better and <a -name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>wiser for the -state to abstain. And yet in common sense the state may as -well demand information as to my religious profession, as in -respect of my age or worldly calling. But the question -having been raised, what is this evidence which it has brought to -light, and which I say is so grave in its results? There is -a vehement, almost a <i>passionate</i> resistance of the -proposition, that men should give an account of their faith.</p> -<p>It is true that <span class="smcap">Jesus Christ</span>, the -very Saviour and Redeemer of our souls, has said, -“Whosoever shall confess Me <i>before men</i>, him will I -confess also before My <span class="smcap">Father</span> which is -in heaven; and whosoever shall deny Me <i>before men</i>, him -will I also deny before My <span class="smcap">Father</span> -which is in heaven.” <a name="citation9a"></a><a -href="#footnote9a" class="citation">[9a]</a> But people on -all sides are saying, “not so—not before -men,—religion is a private and secret matter between <span -class="smcap">God</span> and me.”</p> -<p>It is true that holy David declared that “he would -<i>speak</i> even before kings and not be ashamed,” <a -name="citation9b"></a><a href="#footnote9b" -class="citation">[9b]</a> that S. John Baptist “confessed -and denied not, but confessed;” <a name="citation9c"></a><a -href="#footnote9c" class="citation">[9c]</a> that S. Paul, for -himself, “continued <i>witnessing</i> to small and <a -name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>great,” -<a name="citation10a"></a><a href="#footnote10a" -class="citation">[10a]</a> and in the name of all Christians laid -it down that “we believe and <i>therefore speak</i>,” -<a name="citation10b"></a><a href="#footnote10b" -class="citation">[10b]</a> and that “every <i>tongue</i> -should confess.” <a name="citation10c"></a><a -href="#footnote10c" class="citation">[10c]</a> But people -on all sides are saying, “Not so—not confess, not -witness, not speak,—any other test you please; number us as -we sit here or stand there; but do not ask us to speak. We -prefer to take our place with the ‘chief rulers who -believed, but did not confess;’—we believe, but do -not ask us to confess.”</p> -<p>And this resistance has two sides—one political, and the -other quasi-religious.</p> -<p>Political men resist, because they say the Church of England -holds them, and yet does <i>not</i> hold them. It holds -them politically, gives them, if they demand it, baptism, or -communion, or churching, or burial. Yet it does <i>not</i> -hold them because they object to her services, and usages, and -prefer preachers of their own, and <i>other</i> doctrines than -hers. “We are Churchmen,” say these people, -“in one sense, though not in another; and therefore we -prefer not to define ourselves at all. We go to -‘meeting,’ but we have not parted final company with -the Church. And as excommunication <a -name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>can alone -sever the bond between us, we are glad that excommunication is -now unknown.”</p> -<p>Such is one side of the opposition to the notion of defining -their faith. How shall they define it? Once perhaps -when the Catechism was fresh upon the soft and docile mind of -their childhood they might have been able, but now that is a mere -reminiscence. They know not to-day what they may believe -to-morrow. Meantime they will hold on to the Church as to a -secular institution, and do what they can to secularize it. -It will become more useful and less mischievous in their opinion, -just as men cease to regard it as a “witness” for the -glory of <span class="smcap">God</span>, and a training school -for the salvation of souls.</p> -<p>The other side of the same opposition has more appearance of -religious feeling about it. Men object to define their -faith, because really and conscientiously they <i>have</i> no -faith which they <i>can</i> define. “False -shame,” “procrastination,” “self-distrust -in honourable minds,” (as it has been mischievously called, -<a name="citation11"></a><a href="#footnote11" -class="citation">[11]</a>) “consciousness of -imperfection,” such are the pleas with which <a -name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 12</span>they -indulgently flatter themselves. They are not yet ripe for -any “visible Church;” so they ignorantly and -complacently express it; they mean to wait; they are not -unchristian because they dare not make choice of a denomination -<i>yet</i>. Surely not. By and by will be time -enough. They will make a profession some day though not -now.</p> -<p>When I hear on every side as I mix with my fellow men, and -read in every newspaper, as I strive to note down the voice of -the public press as it gains upon the popular mind, such -sentiments as these, I am bound to say that if this be not -spiritually the reproduction of the picture of Ephraim, as Hosea -drew it in the days of Israel’s apostasy, and as such, if -it be not the accomplishment among ourselves of a prophetic -announcement which spiritually concerned the Church of <span -class="smcap">Christ</span>, I know not where to find a prophecy -fulfilled. “Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the -people: Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have -devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, grey hairs are -here and there upon him; yet he knoweth not.” <a -name="citation12"></a><a href="#footnote12" -class="citation">[12]</a></p> -<p><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>I will -now presume to say something in the presence of this calamity -which afflicts the Church of <span class="smcap">Christ</span> in -England.</p> -<p>I. First, I will say that as Truth is one and -indivisible, so your faith as English Churchmen, with the Cross -of <span class="smcap">Christ</span> upon your -foreheads,—and the bond of the “Apostles’ -doctrine and fellowship” in your hearts,—and the -Prayer Book with its Catholic witness in your hands, is fixed, -and easily defined.</p> -<p>It is fixed, because otherwise it could not be the -Truth. And you possess that which is fixed, because -otherwise that which you possess could not be true. The -Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> is “the pillar and -ground of the Truth;” <a name="citation13"></a><a -href="#footnote13" class="citation">[13]</a> and you have the -Truth from the Church of <span class="smcap">God</span>.</p> -<p>The Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> does not create -the Truth. The Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> -does not even give force and power to the Truth. But the -Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> is the depositary of the -Truth. The Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> has the -Truth to keep, and to maintain, and to hand down. The -Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> is the orb, out of which -the glorious light of the Truth shines and overspreads the -earth. The Church of <span class="smcap">God</span> is the -<a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -14</span>candlestick which holds the light. The Church of -<span class="smcap">God</span> is the pillar on which the -proclamation of the Truth is written, and held up and heralded -through the world. You learn truth from that pillar. -And that pillar is the Church of <span -class="smcap">God</span>?</p> -<p>What Church of <span class="smcap">God</span>? The one -Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of <span -class="smcap">God</span>. The same which delivered the -“decrees of the Apostles and elders at Jerusalem:” <a -name="citation14"></a><a href="#footnote14" -class="citation">[14]</a> the same which confounded Arius at -Nicæa: the same which overwhelmed Nestorius at Ephesus: the -same which silenced Macedonius at Constantinople: the same which -vanquished Eutyches at Chalcedon:—the one Holy Church -throughout the world.</p> -<p>2. Next, I desire to lay down this—that, contrary -to what the advocates of a religious census seem to -imply—truth and numbers have no relation one to the other, -unless it be that truth is with the few. The greatest -number of mankind is yet in darkness and error; as S. John says, -“the world lieth in wickedness.”</p> -<p>All <span class="smcap">God’s</span> Word testifies -that, compared with the many who forsake the truth, or who never -<a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>accept it, -or who deny it and lose its fruits, those who receive it, and -live by it, and enter into its reward, are few. Of all the -world at the time of the Flood only eight persons were worthy to -be rescued. Among all the guilty families in the cities of -the plain, only Lot’s escaped destruction. Of all the -six hundred thousand Hebrews delivered out of Egypt, though -blessed with the same miracles, conducted by the same Guide, and -nourished by the same Manna, two only entered the promised -land. In the taking of Jericho, of all the houses in the -city only the harlot Rahab’s was spared. Of all the -thirty and two thousand soldiers of Gideon, but three hundred -were found worthy to contend for the <span -class="smcap">Lord</span>. And so, of all those olive -berries and clusters of grapes set forth by the Prophet to -describe the called of <span -class="smcap">God</span>,—there shall be saved only -“as the shaking of the olive tree, and as the gleaning -grapes, when the vintage is done.” <a -name="citation15"></a><a href="#footnote15" -class="citation">[15]</a></p> -<p>Therefore Religion is not for show, but for reality. -<span class="smcap">God</span> is for Truth, and not for -numbers. And they who are truly wise must be content, as -the Apostles of old were content, to have <a -name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>numbers -against them, if so it be, and to pass in turn through good and -evil report, in the honest and simple defence of what is -true.</p> -<p>This facing of the Truth against numbers is a necessity. -And if you seek to shun it, you are sure nevertheless to -encounter it; and with all the more roughness, for your efforts -to escape it. If you side with the multitude, you will -probably be magnified by those who are in the wrong. But -you will hardly escape being censured by those who are in the -right. And their commendation, if it makes less noise, has -more value.</p> -<p>You must not be dismayed, therefore, because the world is -against you. You must not begin a course of action because -it is popular; nor must you abandon a course of action because it -is decried. Look to what pleases <span -class="smcap">God</span>, not to what will please the -multitude. And then you will do what is right. You -will be wise for <span class="smcap">God</span>. And <span -class="smcap">God</span> is over all.</p> -<p>3. Once more. No earnest mind can entertain the -thought of what is passing among us, without feeling that these -are sifting times. Times of division, when errors abound, -are always times of sifting; times in which <span -class="smcap">God</span> is <a name="page17"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 17</span>trying what men are made of; whether -they are corn or chaff, gold or dross, wheat or tares.</p> -<p>Ephraim is “a cake not turned.” But who are -guilty? “I will sift the House of Israel,” -saith the <span class="smcap">Lord</span>, “as corn is -sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the -earth.” <a name="citation17a"></a><a -href="#footnote17a" class="citation">[17a]</a> This is the -one comfort in the midst of so much sorrow. Whosoever is -true grain, shall not be lost. See to it, then, that each -soul among you is <i>true grain</i>.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">God</span> is sifting your sincerity by -the errors which He suffers to compass you about. “I -hear there are divisions among you, and I believe it,” says -the Apostle, “for there <i>must</i> be heresies among you, -that they which are approved may be made manifest.” <a -name="citation17b"></a><a href="#footnote17b" -class="citation">[17b]</a> And your stability He is -sifting—whether or not you are as Reuben, “unstable -as water,” weak, and soft, and yielding, and -inconstant. And your zeal, and your knowledge, and your -love,—He is sifting all these, in this your day of -probation.</p> -<p>You have had great gifts at <span -class="smcap">God’s</span> Hand, unspeakable opportunities -of knowing Him and His Truth—the Word of <span -class="smcap">God</span>, the witness of <a -name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>the Church, -and the “Spirit leading you into all Truth” through -the ordained means of grace—through Sacraments and -Prayer. How is it with you? Are you yet -“men” in knowledge, with the “full assurance of -understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of <span -class="smcap">God</span>, and of the <span -class="smcap">Father</span>, and of <span -class="smcap">Christ</span>, in Whom are hid all the treasures of -wisdom and knowledge.” <a name="citation18a"></a><a -href="#footnote18a" class="citation">[18a]</a> Or are you -“children in understanding,” “tossed to and fro -and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of -men, and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to -deceive?” <a name="citation18b"></a><a href="#footnote18b" -class="citation">[18b]</a></p> -<p>Now is the test of your weakness or of your strength. -Now it will be seen <i>who</i> is possessed by that enervated and -timid spirit which inspires so many faltering hearts, and directs -so many enfeebled wills, in this day of conflict for the Church -of <span class="smcap">God</span>.</p> -<p>And, above all, your love is being sifted. Is your hold -upon the Church and her teaching “rooted and grounded in -love?” <span class="smcap">God</span> is trying your -<i>love</i>—your love to Himself, to <span -class="smcap">Christ</span>, to the Truth. The head is not -a casket in which Truth can safely lie enshrined. It is <a -name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>soon stolen -from thence. But, if you have lodged it in the heart, and -embedded it there in folds of love, men may take out your heart, -but out of your heart they cannot take the Truth.</p> -<p>It is for want of love that so many men among us are -cowards,—that so much is sacrificed to the first appearance -of danger,—that so much is offered up to expediency, to -popularity, to success. The world is a worshipper of -success. But the world has no love for the Truth. The -world knows nothing of the blessed joy of undergoing persecution -and danger, and making ventures, for the Truth’s -sake. And so, as “Ephraim has mixed himself” -with the world, he is as “a cake not turned,” and -“strangers have devoured his strength,” in this age -of concession and falling away.</p> -<p>But what says “He Who sitteth upon the -throne?” “He that overcometh shall inherit all -things.” <a name="citation19"></a><a href="#footnote19" -class="citation">[19]</a> But the “fearful” or -cowardly, (the -<i>δειλοὶ</i>,) and the -unfaithful or “unbelieving” (the -<i>ἄπιστοι</i>,) the -deserters who fall off from want of faith and patience, what of -them? “they shall have their part with murderers, and -whore-mongers, <a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -20</span>and idolaters, and liars, in the lake which burns with -fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” <a -name="citation20a"></a><a href="#footnote20a" -class="citation">[20a]</a></p> -<p>And what says the Apostle? When love is perfect <a -name="citation20b"></a><a href="#footnote20b" -class="citation">[20b]</a> then we have “boldness in the -<i>crisis</i>,” or judgment, or trial, of faith; and -“love casts out fear.” And fear is the parent -of all unlawful concessions.</p> -<p>We owe the Truth an external service as well as an internal -devotion. And they have no love for the Truth who withhold -an external service. The faith of the heart will no more -avail without the confession of the mouth, than the confession of -the mouth will avail without the faith of the heart.</p> -<p>If it be enough for <span class="smcap">Christ</span> that you -know Him, though you confess Him not before men, it will also be -enough for you that He knows you, though, at the last, He confess -you not before men. It is not enough to say, “I hold -the Truth in my heart, but I am silent before the -world.” And, therefore, <span -class="smcap">Christ</span> does <i>not</i> say, “he that -confesseth Me in his heart;” but <span -class="smcap">Christ</span> says, “he that confesseth Me -<i>before men</i>.” They are vital words, these words -of <a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 21</span><span -class="smcap">Christ</span>. Lay them up in your hearts, -and live by them. Hear them at length. -“Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I confess -also before My <span class="smcap">Father</span> Which is in -Heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I -also deny before My <span class="smcap">Father</span> Which is in -Heaven. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I -came not to send peace but a sword. For I am come to set a -man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her -mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a -man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He -that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; -and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of -Me. And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after Me -is not worthy of Me. He that findeth his life shall lose -it, and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” -<a name="citation21"></a><a href="#footnote21" -class="citation">[21]</a></p> -<h2><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -22</span>POSTSCRIPT.</h2> -<p><span class="smcap">While</span> these pages are passing -through the press, the Government has yielded the point at -issue. It has yielded, against its own convictions. -It has yielded to pressure,—and to pressure from those whom -it considers wrong-headed, and unreasonable, and unjust.</p> -<p>The Government believed and declared that it was fair, and -right, and just, and necessary “for legislative -purposes,” that the people of England should <i>confess</i> -the religious profession which they make—each man his -own. The Government still believes in the fairness, and -justice, and necessity of such a declaration. But, because -some persons object to it, on the ground that no man ought to be -asked what his religion is, or whether he has any religion at -all, and because those persons have political influence, the -Government has yielded its convictions to those persons.</p> -<p>The Government loves its convictions a little. It loves -political influence much. And so, this has come <a -name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 23</span>out -clear—whatever is just, and fair, and right, and even -necessary for “legislative purposes,” has no chance -of prevailing in the counsels of Government, unless, -<i>first</i>, the political influence of the Government shall be -secured. If on the side of injustice, and unfairness, and -the entanglement and perversion of legislation, there should be -political influence, that will be the side of the -Government. Evil consequences in the future are -nothing. Present place and present power are -everything.</p> -<p>I think this ought to be a lesson to Churchmen not to put -faith in Governments. The Church can never lose by any -measures which are just, and fair, and straightforward, and -open. And, therefore, the Church had nothing to lose from -the “religious profession” clause of the Census -Bill. But as Governments do not bind themselves to keep -their faith, and are always ready to sacrifice their convictions -of justice to their lust of power, the Church must have no trust -in Governments.</p> -<p>The object of this tract is not affected by the weak and -pitiful conduct of the Government. It never was my object -to defend the “religious profession” clause. I -have said that, considering the religious distractions of this -country, I think it would be wiser for the Government to leave -the religious profession of the people alone. And I say so -still. Never to have proposed a Census of religious -opinions at all would have been wise. But, to have proposed -it—to have stoutly maintained the justice of it—to -have asserted the necessity of it for <a name="page24"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 24</span>equitable legislation,—and -then, to have withdrawn it to satisfy an unreasoning handful of -Dissenters, who make themselves heard in the House of Commons, is -not to be characterized by any negative form of judgment. -This is not simply want of wisdom. It is more like that -moral imbecility which, in men whom <span -class="smcap">God</span> has burdened with a high trust, is -really a crime.</p> -<p>The object of this tract remains. And therefore, -notwithstanding the course which the Government has taken, I send -it forth to effect that object, as opportunity shall be -found. I ask my countrymen and countrywomen—Christian -men and women—simply to consider, as in the presence of -<span class="smcap">God</span>, these two appalling facts, which -the discussion of the Census Bill has forced to the surface, in -this day of <i>Crisis</i> for the Truth.</p> -<p>1. That thousands of baptized souls in England are -content to believe nothing in particular.</p> -<p>2. That thousands more who protest that they <i>do</i> -believe something in particular, protest also that they cannot -“confess” that something “before -men.”</p> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> -<p style="text-align: center"><i>Price</i> 2<i>d.</i>, <i>or</i> -10<i>s.</i> <i>per</i> 100 <i>for distribution</i>.</p> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> - -<div class="gapmediumline"> </div> -<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">JOSEPH -MASTERS AND CO., PRINTERS, ALDERSGATE STREET.</span></p> -<h2>FOOTNOTES.</h2> -<p><a name="footnote5"></a><a href="#citation5" -class="footnote">[5]</a> 2 Kings xiii. 7.</p> -<p><a name="footnote6"></a><a href="#citation6" -class="footnote">[6]</a> 2 Kings xv. 19.</p> -<p><a name="footnote8"></a><a href="#citation8" -class="footnote">[8]</a> Phil. i. 27, 28.</p> -<p><a name="footnote9a"></a><a href="#citation9a" -class="footnote">[9a]</a> S. Matt. x. 32.</p> -<p><a name="footnote9b"></a><a href="#citation9b" -class="footnote">[9b]</a> Ps. cxix. 46.</p> -<p><a name="footnote9c"></a><a href="#citation9c" -class="footnote">[9c]</a> S. John i. 20.</p> -<p><a name="footnote10a"></a><a href="#citation10a" -class="footnote">[10a]</a> Acts xxvi. 22.</p> -<p><a name="footnote10b"></a><a href="#citation10b" -class="footnote">[10b]</a> 2 Cor. iv. 13.</p> -<p><a name="footnote10c"></a><a href="#citation10c" -class="footnote">[10c]</a> Phil. ii. 11.</p> -<p><a name="footnote11"></a><a href="#citation11" -class="footnote">[11]</a> See <i>Daily News</i> of May 11, -1860.</p> -<p><a name="footnote12"></a><a href="#citation12" -class="footnote">[12]</a> Hosea vii. 9.</p> -<p><a name="footnote13"></a><a href="#citation13" -class="footnote">[13]</a> 1 Tim. iii. 15.</p> -<p><a name="footnote14"></a><a href="#citation14" -class="footnote">[14]</a> Acts xv.</p> -<p><a name="footnote15"></a><a href="#citation15" -class="footnote">[15]</a> Isa. xxiv. 13.</p> -<p><a name="footnote17a"></a><a href="#citation17a" -class="footnote">[17a]</a> Amos ix. 9.</p> -<p><a name="footnote17b"></a><a href="#citation17b" -class="footnote">[17b]</a> 1 Cor. xi. 19.</p> -<p><a name="footnote18a"></a><a href="#citation18a" -class="footnote">[18a]</a> Col. ii. 2.</p> -<p><a name="footnote18b"></a><a href="#citation18b" -class="footnote">[18b]</a> Eph. iv. 14.</p> -<p><a name="footnote19"></a><a href="#citation19" -class="footnote">[19]</a> Rev. xxi. 7.</p> -<p><a name="footnote20a"></a><a href="#citation20a" -class="footnote">[20a]</a> Rev. xxi. 8.</p> -<p><a name="footnote20b"></a><a href="#citation20b" -class="footnote">[20b]</a> 1 S. 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