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ven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers;
all things were ereated by him, and for him, and he is before
all things, and by him all things consist;"*) even
" Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us ;"t He it is " in whom we have redemption
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins,t
He it is by whose agony and death on the cross, "mercy
and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed each other."§
This is a true mystery; in view of it we may all prostrate
ourselves before Hjm who has given us reason, and its
first dictate, confession to God that we are blind and sinful
.
Blind because sinful; and, if reason be in her right mind,
her requirement is, that we submit our will, our all, to Him
who gave us reason, and who sees the end from the beginning;
knows how to make wrath praise him, and who
chooses the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise; yea, and chooses " things that are not, to bring to
tiougfU the things that are"
u To whom no high, no low, no great, no small;
u Who fills, who bounds, connects, and governs all.''
Does the enemy of all truth enlist Free Masonry into the
war with sound doctrine ? Make her pretended mysteries
real teachers of infidelity ? Introduce her claims to antiquity
for the purpose of contradicting the inspiration and divine
origin of the holy scriptures ? And through her absurd
traditions of the priests of calves and leeks, her prophets,
; deny the God who died and rose again ?
This conduct puts me in possession of an argument for
* Col. i. 15,16,17. 1 Col. i. 14.
t Gal. iii. 13. \ Psalmr. taxv. 10.