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It alters the character of Christianity to make it a system of commandments. Give me an express text, says one, and I will bow to it. Now this is an unholy and bad principle. If a child knew the will of its father, and yet demanded some express command before it would obey, that would be a bad child. It is a very common evil of this day to demand an abstract command. If I have the Holy Spirit I must do what I know to be the mind of God-of course checked by the written word-but wherever I have the knowledge of God's mind it is binding on me.
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There is nothing to be more cordially abhorred than the pretense of love and unity being used dishonor Him who is the center, life, and sole object and title of ti. There is no devil so bad as the devil who clothes himself with charity. It is the spirit of the day - latitudinarianism. "Charity is the bond of perfectness," but Christ is the test of this, as of all else, and He makes it so. " The poor ye have always with you, and me ye have not always." Thus we must judge - judge, I mean, our own conduct…Local unity, founded on abandonment or indifference to the truth, is a miserable hostility (in sparing oneself) to gathering with Christ, the only true and universal unity…I do not know what is meant by unity, if the foundations of all unity that is worth anything are denied.
End of Vol. 2.