The written Word, the Spirit and the Church, are co-ordinate, the indispensable conditions and the working causes of the perpetuity and continued re-nascence and spiritual life of Christ still militant.

The Eternal Word, Christ from everlasting, is the 'prothesis' or identity;--the Scriptures and the Church are the two poles, or the 'thesis' and 'antithesis'; the Preacher in direct line under the Spirit, but likewise the point of junction of the written Word and the Church, being the 'synthesis'.

And here is another proof of a principle elsewhere by me asserted and exemplified, that divine truths are ever a 'tetractys', or a triad equal to a 'tetractys': 4=1 or 3=4=1.

But the entire scheme is a pentad--God's hand in the world.

[2] It may be not amiss that I should leave a record in my own hand, how far, in what sense, and under what conditions, I agree with my friend, Edward Irving, respecting the second coming of the Son of Man.
I.How far?
First, instead of the full and entire conviction, the positive assurance, which Mr.Irving entertains, I--even in those points in which my judgment most coincides with his,--profess only to regard them as probable, and to vindicate them as nowise inconsistent with orthodoxy.