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The religion of genuine Christianity is a revelation so distinct and specific in its design, and so clear and intelligible in its rules, that a man of philosophic and retired thought is apt to wonder by what means the endless systems of error and hostility which divide the world were ever introduced into it.
What means this hollow cant--this fifty times warmed-up bubble and squeak?
That such parts are intelligible as the Barrister understands?
That such parts as it possesses in common with all systems of religion and morality are plain and obvious?
In other words that ABC are so legible that they are legible to every one that has learnt to read?
If the Barrister mean other or more than this, if he really mean the whole religion and revelation of Christ, even as it is found in the original records, the Gospels and Epistles, he escapes from the silliness of a truism by throwing himself into the arms of a broad brazenfaced untruth.
What! Is the sixth chapter of St.John's Gospel so distinct and specific in its design, that any modest man can wonder that the best and most learned men of every age since Christ have deemed it mysterious?
Are the many passages concerning the Devil and demoniacs so very easy?
Has this writer himself thrown the least light on, or himself received one ray of light from, the meaning of the word Faith;--or the reason of Christ's paramount declarations respecting its omnific power, its absolutely indispensable necessity?
If the word mean only what the Barrister supposes, a persuasion that in the present state of our knowledge the evidences for the historical truth of the miracles of the Gospel outweigh the arguments of the Sceptics, will he condescend to give us such a comment on the assertion, that had we but a grain of mustard seed of it, we might control all material nature, without making Christ himself the most extravagant hyperbolist that ever mis-used language?
But it is impossible to make that man blush, who can seriously call the words of Christ as recorded by St.John, plain, easy, common sense, out of which prejudice, artifice, and selfish interest alone can compose any difficulty.

The Barrister has just as much right to call his religion Christianity, as to call flour and water plum pudding:--yet we all admit that in plum pudding both flour and water do exist.
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Socinus can have no claim upon my veneration: I have never concerned myself with what he believed nor with what he taught &c.
The Scripture is my authority, and on no other authority will I ever, knowingly, lay the foundation of my faith.
Utterly untrue.

It is not the Scripture, but such passages of Scripture as appear to him to accord with his Procrustean bed of so called reason, and a forcing of the blankest contradictions into the same meaning, by explanations to which I defy him to furnish one single analogy as allowed by mankind with regard to any other writings but the Old and New Testament.