the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. Matth. v. 46. Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. (vi. 9.) After this manner, therefore, pray ye, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, &c. Exod. xiv. 31. The people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and his servant Moses. Hosea iii. 5. After that shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king. 1 Cor. ii. 10. But God hath revealed unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God. John xiv. 16. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever. 1 John iv. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Ezek. xxxiv. 23. I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd. Jer. xxiii. 4. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I will set up shepherds over them, which shall feed them. John x. 11. I [Christ] am the good Shepherd. Is. xix. 20. And he shall send them a Saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. Neh. ix. 27. Thou gavest them saviours, which saved them out of the hands of their enemies. REMARKS. Many more similar passages might be quoted, but these are probably sufficient. If not, more may be found, of a like nature, in all parts of the Bible. I therefore request all Christians, of every denomination, candidly to consider these texts; and to form their opinions, from a view of the whole, and not of a part only, without taking for their guide any extraneous matter, any humanly invented creeds, catechisms, litanies, doxologies, dogmas, dissertations, expositions, systems, writings, or preachings whatever, even of the most pious and learned uninspired men. For I am persuaded, that, if there never had been, and were not now, any theological writings whatever, except the Bible, there would be very little, if any, dissention in the religious world. All Christians, believing in one God and Father, and one Lord and Saviour, holding the Bible to be their only sure guide and director, would unite in one pure Scriptural doctrine, unclouded with unintelligible mysteries, contradictions, or impossibilities; would establish but one church, untrammeled with sectarian names, but adorned only with the glorious name of their Lord and Master, and so called The Church of Christ on earth. But as different opinions unhappily exist, and men's minds have been, in various ways, more bewildered than enlightened, I, with diffidence, request all who believe the Bible, all who are required to believe it, to aid me, to go along with me, into a particular, clear, and general investigation of the passages of Scripture above cited, and such others as may be important, in the examination. And may that Allwise Being, who cannot direct amiss, who is able to enlighten our minds with true and holy knowledge, direct us, and show us "the truth, as it is in Jesus." CHAPTER III. THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. In the preceding chapter we have introduced, from the Sacred Scriptures, sufficient light, for a pole star in our theological voyage, to direct us aright in our course to the haven of truth, righteousness, and salvation. The first, the most important, the greatest subject of consideration, on all occasions, in all matters, is the existence of an almighty, overruling first cause, or source of all things—not only the Creator, but, also, the Preserver and Director of all. For, without such cause, we could have no assurance, no expectation, that the vast, the glorious material or immaterial creation could exist for a moment; but all nature, all thought and being must dissolve and perish, "Swallowed up and lost, In the wide womb of uncreated night, The existence of a God, or first cause and governor of all things, is acknowledged by almost all intelligent beings. It is so fully made known by all the works of creation, by nature, reason and common sense, even without the confirmation of the Bible, that none but fools, in every sense of the word, will presume to say- "There is no God." But there has been and still is a difference of opinion, in some respects, concerning the nature and character of Jehovah; both in respect to the mode "It of his existence, and the quality of his attributes. But it is agreed, by Christians of every sect, that God is an immaterial, purely spiritual Being; that he is Almighty, Omniscient, Selfexistent, and Eternal. And the Unity of God is professed by all—it is proved by all his works-it was proclaimed in a voice of thunder from Mount Sinai, and all Nature cries aloud" It must be so!" Besides, the revealed word of God is full of this solemn, wondrous truth, "God is a spirit; and they, who worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. The Lord our God is one Lord. I, even I am he, and there is no God with me. I alone am God, and there is none besides me. For I am God and there is none else. I am God and there is none like me. To us there is but one God, the Father." The Scriptures are full of such sublime declarations. Bishop Pearson has said, in a plain, but forcible style, "God is a God of order and not of confusion, and therefore, of unity not admitting multiplicity. Now God is not only one, but hath an unity peculiar to himself, by which he is the only God, and that not only by way of actuality, but also of possibility. In the Divine Nature there is an intrinsical and essential singularity; because no other being can have any existence but from him; and whatsoever essence has its existence from another is not God." The Bishop here quotes, John xvii. 3. "This is eternal life; that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." But it is said by some, that the great body of |