| and his kingdom, preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; | but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Tim. iii. 13-17; iv. 1-?4. |
EXTRACT VI.
Only begotten son of God.
"No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him; and what is the only begotten? Nothing but that which is begotten in every soul can manifest God to the soul. You must know this for yourselves, as nothing which you read in the Scriptures can give you a sense of his saving and almighty power.—Now, the only begotten, is what the power of God begets in the soul, by the soul uniting with the visitations of divine love, it becomes like a union,—the soul submits and yields itself up to God, and the revelation of his power, and thus it becomes wedded to him as its heavenly husband. Here now is a birth of the Son of God; and this must be begotten in every soul, as God can be manifested by nothing else." p. 97.
This fearful mysticism is consistent, from a man who doubted the miraculous conception of our Lord; but
What saith the Holy Spirit by the Scripture?
| "I will declare the decree; Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my | son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the Hea- |
