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¬" Some of the mysteries which you insist upon, and make the parents of a widely-spread- ing dissent, are so immaterial to the essential truth and character of divine revelation, that perhaps, on that very account, they are covered as with a veil from the presumptuous mind of man ; and so little do I seek to remove it, that if an angel were now standing upon the centre arch of the bridge I point to, I would not walk through the rain that is falling, to know from him which opinion concerning them was best, so as I knew that God had through re- demption received me, and in any manner had enlightened me with his holy spirit. — It is most fit, nevertheless, that your Scriptures should in those points be examined, and that the best expositions should be supported and illustrated by your church, but they should neither be made proscriptive articles of belief, nor subjects of contention amongst mankind. — Her establish- ment, as you have described it, is entitled to re- verence for its purity and wisdom, and if all her ministers would only preach their own evan- gelical ¬
