not independently of the written Word, but by means thereof: appointing that every thought, every doctrine, should be tested thereby. Thus, and thus alone, is secured liberty from the tyranny of man, who is ever ready to impose the yoke of his own opinions on his fellow.

All who give heed to the message of reconciliation preached through the atoning blood of Jesus and cast themselves on the efficacy of that one finished sacrifice, receive of these blessings. But they who scorn this one way which God's grace and love have opened, will be left to eat the fruit of their own devices. They will be numbered among the despisers who will "wonder and perish."

"Ecce Homo" sufficiently shows us what is the nature of the conclusions to which "the Enthusiasm of Humanity," or "the verifying faculty" leads. It leads to the unholy, presumptuous, and forbidden attempt to form for ourselves, apart from revelation, an estimate of Christ. That attempt is in itself sin. It leads to the forming an estimate of Christ which is altogether destructive of the great distinctive characteristic of Immanuel; for it speaks of Him as if He was of earth merely. It allows not that He was from above-that He was God manifest in the flesh. It sees not in the Babe born at Bethlehem One whose "goings forth were of old from everlasting." It leads too to a total rejection of all that Scripture reveals respecting the condition in which sin has placed us: for it teaches that we are able to be so attracted by the presentation of perfect holiness as to love and delight in it; whereas it only needs that perfect holiness should be presented to us in its fulness, and we instantly show that we have not only no power to love or delight in or hold communion with it, but that we have in us enmity against and hatred of it. Hence our guilt-hence our need of that refuge which is provided for us, not in the living holiness, but in the expiatory death of the Holy One. Christ in death-Christ made a sacrifice-Christ stricken judicially, is a sinner's hope. But it is a hope that "Ecce Homo" repudiates and abhors. Nor is the personal existence of the Tempter recognised. In a word, the light that the revelation of God has shed on the past, the present, and the future, is utterly set aside, and other light substituted in its room. Can such substituted light have any other origin than the pit? No. It comes from the pit and to the pit it leads.

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The following Extract is from an excellent Speech of Lord Shaftesbury at the Annual Meeting of "the Pastoral Aid Society," in May, 1866.

"The other day a great Dissenting minister put to me in conversation this question, 'From which do you think there is the greatest danger, the progress of ritualism or the progress of neology?' I replied, 'To the Church of England as an Established Church I apprehend there is the greatest danger from ritualism, but as regards the Church of Christ and the cause of religion in the Church of England I apprehend there is the greatest danger from neology.' Neology is now growing up in such a way that even from a large proportion of the pulpits of the Church of England we no longer hear, as we used to hear, sound doctrinal, dogmatic, practical teaching. Many of our ministers if you remonstrate with them on this will tell you that they feel it and regret it, but that their congregations would not bear now what was borne formerly. This is, I believe, true, and a more awful fact, a more dangerous state of mind or of moral existence I cannot conceive to exist in any nation under heaven. See how men are deluded, how they are misled by those who should be their guides. I confess I was perfectly aghast the other day when speaking to a clergyman and asking him his opinion of that most pestilential book ever vomited, I think, from the jaws of hell, I mean Ecce Homowhen I asked him what was his opinion of that book, he deliberately told me-he being a great professor of Evangelical religion-that that book had excited his deepest admiration, and that he did not hesitate to say that it had conferred great benefit upon his own soul. Why, if we are to have this miserable and uncertain teaching, if the guides to whom we look for light and help can approve such works as that, how can we expect that the mass of the people, the mass even of the educated middle classes who are supposed to think for themselves, will not be led to wander out of the right way? Look at the policy on which the neological party proceed. They are praising a sensuous religion. They hope to get rid of doctrines by sentiments. They hope to get rid of creeds by feelings. Take up the writings of the most gifted and fascinating among them, and you will find them conceding almost all that you desire. You will find that they concede to you the incarnation and divinity of our Lord, and almost everything that you could wish in the history of our Lord and the history of our religion. But when you come to the great fundamental work, when you come to the great turning-point of our religion, without which there is nothing in it worth having, when you come to the atonement which was made on the cross, when you speak of the atoning blood of our blessed Lord, there they stop short, and they refuse it to you altogether. While this Society has determined to 'know nothing but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified,' the Neologists and all who belong to that school will tell you that you may claim everything else but that you must not claim. Now this is the way that we are going on. Through a false and foolish policy many persons are surrendering a little to ritualism on the one side, and to neology on the other, saying, 'We cannot be altogether behind the generation in which we live; we cannot be entirely opposed to the society in which we move.' A great many persons of good intentions, but, I am sorry to say, weak minds, fall

in with that miserable idolatry which has now begun to pervade educated society -the idolatry of humanitarianism and intellect. Men must have something to adore, and many persons, having ceased to adore Christ, will adore man instead. They will fall on their knees and worship intellect; nay, they will even worship themselves, their own ignorance, their own vices, their own abominations, rather than worship that God who has revealed Himself in his blessed Word. This is what is creeping over the laity in the present day with regard to dogmatic statements of truth. Let me allude for a moment to those two Bills which have been recently brought into the House of Commons for the regulation of the Universities. The promoters of those Bills would be offended if you charged them with a desire to extinguish religion; but when you tell them that their object is to shut out the dogmatic and specific teaching of religion, they will not deny the imputation, but will tell you they think that young men ought to be educated in the Universities only in the general principles of religion,-which may mean everything or nothing, -and that doctrinal and dogmatic teaching should be reserved for their homes, for their fathers and their mothers. That is the way that we are going on; that is the way that delusions are being imposed upon us; that is the way the young are being flattered in their intellectual pride, and made to think that they are wiser than their ancestors, and wiser than those who first taught them."

May God, in His mercy, grant that many hearts may be opened to give heed to these words of truth, before it is too late.

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