OP HUMAN NATURE. 287 We do not deny that there are, in Christianity, high and holy mysteries ; but these " secret things," though they " belong to God," have their practical uses for us ; they teach us humility, the prime Christian grace ; and they exercise faith, the parent attribute of all other graces. This religion of facts, then, the poor- est listeners in the aisles of our churches understand sufficiently, to be made by it wise unto salvation. They are saved by a practical belief of a few simple, but in- estimable truths. By these same simple truths, martyrs and confessors, our persecuted saints, and our blessed reformers, were saved. By these few simple truths, Locke, andBoyle, and Newton, were Saved ; not because they saw their religion through the glass of their philosophy, but because theirs was not " a philosophy, falsely- so called ;" nor their science, " a science of opposi- tion ;" but a science and a philosophy which were made subservient to Christi-
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