Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-03-27
Son Of God. The miracles which lie
wrought established in my mind His

personal authority, and render it
proper for me to believe whatever
He asserts; believe, therefore, all
His declarations, as when He declares
Himself the Son Of God rs when Ho
declares any other proposition. And
| declare there is no other way of
salvation than through the merits of
His atoncment.
| believe that things past, present
and to come arc all equally present
in the mind of the Deity; that with
Him there is no succession Of time,
nor of ideas; that, therefore, the rel
ativo terms past, present and future,
rs used among men, can not, with
strict propricty, he applied to Deity.
| believe in the doctrines of fore
knowledge and prcdcstination, as
thus cxpoundcd. | do not believe in
those doctrines as imposing any fa-
tality or necessity of mems actions,
or in any way Infringing free agency.
believe in the utter inability Of
any human being to work out his
own salvation without the constant
aid of the Spirit of all grace.
believe in those great pcculiari-
ties of the Christian religion-a
resurrection from the dead and day
Of Judgment
believe in the universal Provi-
dcncc Of God, and leave to Epicurus
and his more unreasonable followers
in modern times the Inconsistency in
believing that God made world
which he does not take the trouble Of
governing.
Although have great respect for
some other forms OF worship, be-
licvc the Congregational mode, on
the whole, to be preferable to any
other.
believe rcli igion to be a matter
not of demonstration, but of faith.
God requires us to give credit to the
truths which he reveals, not because
we can prove them, but because he
declares them. When the mind is
reasonably y convinced! that tho Bible
is the word OF God, the only remain
ing duty is to receive its doctrines
with full confidence in their truth
and practice them with pure heart.
believe that the Bible is to be
understood and believed in the plain
and Obvious meaning of its passages;
since | can not persuade myself
that book intended for the instruc-
ton and conversion of the whole
world should cover its true meaning
in such mystery and doubt that none
but critics and philosophers can dis
cover it.
believe that the experiments and
subtlctics OF human wisdom are
more likely to obscure than to en-
tighten the revealed will of God, and
that he is the most accomplished
Christian scholar who hath been cd
ucatrd at the feet Of Jesus, and in the
College Of Fishermen.
| believe that all true religion con-
sists in the heart and the affections,
and that therefore all crccds and con
icSsions are falliblc and uncertain
evidences Of evangelical picty.
Finally, believe that Christ has
imposed on all His disciples a life OF
active bcncvolcncc; that he who re-
Trains only from what he thinks to
be sinful has performed but part
and a small part OF his duty, that he
is bound to do good and commune
cate, to love his ncighbor, to give
food and drink to his enemy, and
to cndcavor, SO far us in him lies, to
promote peace, truth, picty and hap
pncSS in a wicked and fororn world,
believing that in the great day which
is to come there will be no other
standard OF merit, no other criterion
Of charactcr, than that which is al
ready established, "I'y their fruits
shall yc know them"
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