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Show IxTKr.PKEnxa Sciupture. Cecil says, the right of interpreting scripture scrip-ture is to take it as we find it, without any attempt to . force it into any particular par-ticular .- stem. Whatever may be fairly irdcmd from scripture, we need not fear to in.-ist on. Many pat! speak the 'uneutige cf what is called Calvanism. and that in almot the strongest terms. I would not liae u man clip and curt iil tbe.-e passage-, to bring them down to some system ; let him go wi:b them in their free and full sense ; f'er otherwise, if he do not absolutely abso-lutely pervert them, he will attenuate their energy. But let him look at us many nn'ro, which speak the language of Armenianisiu. and let him go ail the way with these also. (od has been pleased thus to stale and to 1'ave :he thing; and all our attempts to di-turt j it in one or way or the other ar- ;.uny an! contemptible. W e have had a reat many translations transla-tions of the holy scriptures; the best of all would be their translation into the daily practice of christian people. |