Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-02-22

But if the Christian, in the investigation Of
the truths &c his religion, must Law aside HE
reasCn. % receive doctrines which arc manifesfs
" inconsistent with it what right Or power has
he To oppose the religion Of the heather How
can he say 90 the heathen that his rods are false
his religion false, or bis H6rshih vain? Reason
e the only test ON earth By which we can try
the truth o. falsehood of any system of religion.
And if our avn have doctrines in Il which will
not bsar the strength of test, how can we with
cOnfdencs o. justice. use il against other sys-
TENS Suppose, Tor instance, a Triniiarian
cruel talths him who wUFships variety Of Gods
and offers up to one. for an appeasing sacrifice,
the blood and mangled bodies Of hls own off,
springs your religion, sir, is false, because Il il
revolving so,pature and opposed 10 reason.-there
is bat one God in the Universe and he is too
good and pure 20 delight in tins savage Worship"
how might he be COMPOUNDED BY just reply
from the heather. 'syou have yourself, three
Gods;aRd one of them, too, is God ofvengeance:
and aith0ngh his nature may be ayerse to few
tanpotaI pangs inflicted upon his Iaithfnsubieefs
(the highest evidence of his faith and xeall 30 has
ten their admission into his immediate presence.
yet he creates the wicked for the very damDatiOn
which awaits them in a future state, 81 when :hey.
have rum their career of obedience to DEGREES
which he gives them no will or power 10 resist,
he sends them down to Hell, that their eternal
and excrutiating torments may illustrate his JUS
tice ~ With such q view of the Christians
Geds the heather might with reason, turn with
revolving from him and kneel with increased de-
votiOn before the idols of his former worship.
This doctrine, 400, Of Christi equality and
identity with God, has always hM@& . sfumhlipr
block in The way of those Hllo &c at all dis.
posed to cavil at religion. 6eeaaae violates the
laws of proba bility. This world Il but an atom
in the Universe, and in the great scale ofcrea-
tom, is infinitely less than one grain of sand
What then ID man that the great God Of the Uni>
verse should forget all else in this paetinhnitude
ofsystems, to come down to earth, to soiourn and
die, pilgtim and victim, amongst this feeble
race, that he might secure from his own throne,
pardon and plea of salvatiensfor them And
how can dilemma which called for such an act
from Ged be explained If mans condition was
such. that nothing short of an infinite atonement
could have saEed him from eternal ruin, and no
only could make such an atonement, his own
infinite nature must have suffered the penalty,
or else there was no infinite atonement made
and az he Is aliwise and omnipotent. and knew
all things even before man was made. why did
he make him subject to the certainty of this disl
lemma The truth is, no infinite atonement
was ever made, none was ever necessary !;
Christ died for Nan, It is true, but he is not Sod,
nor equal with God, bat his son and vicegsrent,
sent down TO earth to reveal God 10 man. and TO
make his plan of salvation known. This 10 ac-
cOrdant with reason and shall proceed inmy
next to show that such is the plain teaching Of
the Bible. VIR SIMPLEX.