131 ON NOVEL OPINIONS IN RELIGIONc AMONG the numerous *innovations of this innovating age, it is deeply to be lamented, that religion should come in for so large a portion. Of this we have a melancholy instance in the system a the new secession. Many are distorting the sacred doctrines, and slighting the practical ethics of the New Testament. The religion of the Gospel is employed to furnish arms against itself. The truth, as it is in Jesus, is fearlessly controverted its sanctity is no security ; its Divine authority is no protection. In the new system - strange to say.! the hardihood of the sceptic is adopted for the professed purpose of purifying G 6
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