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Tile Spiritual Experience of a Dutch Christian. 19
life"; to know the Lord Jesus Christ as the only mediator
between guilty and accused souls and a holy and righteous God;
to learn to know Him in all His beauties,'as He is given from
His Father to the Church. Oh, we can only use Him just as far
as He is revealed to and in us, and in that making use of Him,
we are, and remain steep and deep dependent of the influences of
that dear Spirit. I have also got that to the rejoicing and comfort
of me and you, as far as I, the least and unworthiest, am favoured
a little with that knowledge. When I learned to know the Three
Persons as I wanted them to my salvation-and the Lord defined and
taught me at once that all benefits, from the beginnmg to the end
in our conversion, descend from that one and the same fountain,
being applied from the Father, through the Son, and by the Holy
Spirit-then I cried, "Oh, then .there are no little things," upon
which the Lord brought home to me that the heir, as long as he
is a child, differeth nothing from a servant though he he lord of
all. And also in the last benefit, the Lord Jehovah, who contirmed
it by an oath, has spoken for all His Zion. Oh, that is as
sure for the least member as God is Himself, but that is at the
side of God, and has to be applied to our comfort. I hope the
Lord will give you grace not to deny what the Lord has done, but
to be granted to look out for to know Him as He needs to' be
known unto salvation.
When I got home, being in solitariness, I got for some moments
a view of the eternal glory in communion with our very dear
friend, now in glory. Now and then I feel the bonds with which
I am bound to her are not broken by death, but there is a union
of that life that is from God; she, in glory, I, still on earth; she,
in her home, I travelling in the desert; she, parted from all that is
not God, I, enveloped with a nature that is in enmity with God;
she, full of all glory and majesty to glorify the Lord, and I, only
now and then, seeing through a glass darkly. My dear friends,
may the Lord grant that we may have much of Him and little of
the world! May He acquaint us with Himself, and give us
peace!
With kindest regards to all the Lord's poor people.
Your very unworthy friend and brother in the Lord,
L. CAPELLE.
The Supreme Authority of Scripture.-When controversy
that happens, for the right understanding of any place or
sentence of Scripture, or for the reformation of any abuse written
the Kirk of God, we ought not so much to look what men before
us have said or done, as unto that which the Holy Ghost
uniformily speaks within the body of the Scripture, and unto that·
which Christ Jesus Himself did and commanded to be done.
For this is one thin~ universally granted, that the Spirit of God
which is the Spirit of unity is in nothing contrary unto Himself.­
Scotch Confession, 1560.