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1 10 Different Interpretations
CHAP. iv.
them, had taught the truth and there was but one Author
;
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of nature, i.e. God.
But is not
gentile philosophy only referred to Divine
inspiration generally as its source, but especially to our
of that truth which
Lord as the Logos ; being a fragment
afterwards issued from the Incarnate Word as an harmo
nious whole. 2 The estimate of the heathen world thus
gained another important step ; and natural goodness, once
admitted to belong to it, did not rest simply such, but rose
above nature and claimed affinity with grace. The dispen
sation of Paganism, so far as it contained truth, was but a
lower part of one large dispensation, which our Lord, as
the Divine Reason, had instituted and carried on for the
enlightenment of the human race, and of which the Grospel
was the consummation heathens and Christians ;
were,
of that
though in a different measure, still alike partakers
one Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the
world ; and all mankind, as brought into union and fellow
ship by that common participation, formed one religious
3
society and communion one Church.
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