GOSPET, - The Gospel Magazine

510 TIIE GOSPEL MAGAZINE.
Seconrlly. "It rid,icu,les reason." Such as his, rvho does not l Indeed as far
as hurnan reason is concerned, as far as the rvisdorn of rlre ,. rvise', and the
" Scribe" extends, as far as tlre fleshly argument of the ., rlisputer cf rhis rvorld',
goes, we do utterly reiect and dispise " reasolr.', For that sort of rar,iocination,
is certairrfy as this reliqious larlver says. "arrr 4ntuErtttist." lt rnilitates agairrst
tlre sirnplicity of truth, Indeed evelything tlrar man says or does /,r rnan is against
God. Hrrrnan reasorr is tlrus antagonistic to divine tea''lring. Heut'e Paul, rvheu
called by grace, lefr Garnaliel for rlre instrucrion of the Holy Ghosr. Faith begils
rvhere teason ends,
Tlrirrlly. " It hates itnagi,nrtti,on, for i,t has no taste.,, The irnaeinations of the
beart beingonly euil ar'd that',corrrinrrally,',rve certainly do hate them. .,The heart
of nran imagines deceits all rhe da,y long.', Does our pious limner love such
thorrghts I We presume he does, for it is tbese lre has io successfully painted
in his " ilark dash 0r trco." The rvicked imaqinations of a manrs hear.t aie'among
rhe-evil tl_rings that God_ hates (Prov. vi. l8,y and so do we .nirh a . p..?.ri
'l'hen
tiul
tred." as to our having " notaste." rve are free ts confess thafrvlrilst the
taste of ev-ery unc-hanged I\loabite remains in him, our scent (for carnal things)
rs changed, and therefore rve have " no laslet'for tLose flesL-pleasing qrali6eations,
rvhich the profesiing party (to rvhich our polite hero bellnss), io greedilv
deyours. BuI rue have a taste, anrl that for spirirual t,lrirrgs; and shen rve sii
under the slrarlorv of the Alrniglrty. with great dclighr, rhe fruit of this tree of life
is slveet and refleshing to our souls.
Fourtlrly. " It despises elegance and, el,'quence." Anrl rvho could love tltern
rvhen they are so coarsely represented ? lndeetl if the.'rnajestic man'rvho wrote
the tract a " porlraiture of Autinornianisnr', is to be ro lrr: taken as a specimen
of tlre elegant, anil the eloquent, lye thirlk tlrere is elt(rugh in hin to make us
hate and