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CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR.

M DCCC LVIII.

JANUARY-DECEMBER.

"IF GOD REVEAL ANY THING TO YOU BY ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT OF HIS, BE AS READY TO
RECEIVE IT AS EVER YOU WERE TO RECEIVE ANY TRUTH BY MY MINISTRY; FOR I AM VERILY
PERSUADED-I AM VERY CONFIDENT THE LORD HATH MORE TRUTH YET TO BREAK FORTH OUT
OF HIS HOLY WORD. FOR MY PART I CANNOT SUFFICIENTLY BEWAIL THE CONDITION OF THE
REFORMED CHURCHES, WHO ARE COME TO A PERIOD IN RELIGION, AND WILL GO AT PRESENT
NO FURTHER THAN THE INSTRUMENTS OF THEIR FIRST REFORMATION. THE LUTHERANS CANNOT
BE DRAWN TO GO BEYOND WHAT LUTHER SAW; WHATEVER PART OF HIS WILL OUR GOOD GOD
HAS IMPARTED AND REVEALED UNTO CALVIN, THEY WILL RATHER DIE THAN EMBRACE IT. AND
THE CALVINISTS YOU SEE STICK FAST WHERE THEY WERE LEFT BY THAT GREAT MAN OF GOD;

WHO YET SAW NOT ALL THINGS! THIS IS A MISERY MUCH TO BE LAMENTED."-Robinson's
Advice to the Pilgrim Fathers.

VOL. VIII.

LONDON:

HOULSTON & WRIGHT, 65, PATERNOSTER ROW.

EDINBURGH

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

LONDON:

COCKSHAW, YATES, AND ALEXANDER, PRINTERS, LUDGATE-HILL.

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