IN RELIGION. /33 you," are the words of inspiration ; the new and living way, therefore, now so much depreciated, is only a continuation in the good old way so tong ago recom- mended by the Prophet. Nor is Christianity, as the recent party seem to suppose, a superannuated thing, which wants repairing .; nor is it an incomplete thing, which wants filling up ; nor is it a redundant thing, whose excrescences want lopping ; nor a de- fective thing, whose deficiencies must be supplied ; nor an erroneous thing, whose errors must be expunged. But to do these malecontents justice, they do not resemble those reformers who arecontented to expose the defects of an existing system, without providing a remedy. This restoration, this purify- ing, this repairing, this expunging, this lopping, this grafting, this perfecting, they have actually and gratuitously taken into their own hands, with a view either to improve the old religion, or, as their progress in error rather threatens, to' pro-
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