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Primitive Truth and Order Vindicated from Modern Misrepresentation
Primitive Truth and Order Vindicated from Modern Misrepresentation Author:John Skinner Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the force of irony and declamation, even when aided by the ftill more powerful influence of worldly intereft. And having thus, as we think, fully efta- blifhed w... more »hat was propofed as the fubject of this chapter,—That a part of the holy, catholic and apofto- lic church of Chrift, though deprived of the fupport of civil eftablifhment, does ftill exift in this country under the name of the Scotch Epifcopal Church, whofe doctrine, difcipline and worfhip have been happily found to agree with that of the firft and pureft ages of Chriftianity; it will now, we truft, be an eafy matter to fhew, that thefe ought to be fteadily adhered to, by all who profefs to be of the Epifcopal communion in this part of the kingdom ; the fhewing which, in as plain, inoffenfive, and concife terms as poffible, will, in our humble opinion, form a very fuitable conclufion to the defign for which thefe perfons have been addrefled on the prefent occafion. A Con- A CONCLUDING ADDRESS TO THE EPISCOPALIANS OF SCOTLAND, RECOMMENDING THEIR UNITED ADHERENCE TO THE PRINCIPLES, BY WHICH THEY ARE DISTINGUISHED. IT has been juftly obferved, that no part of the hiftory of man's redemption is more worthy of our devout admiration, than that myfterious union, by which God and man became one Chrift, one Mediator, who was both to fuffer, and to fave; as man to fuffer, and as God to fave. But by the union of God and man in the perfon of Chrift, another union was eflected between Chrift and his church ; and as the head is joined to the body, fo " we " being many, are one body in Chrift." Now the church is that body ; which he has united to him- felf in the fame manner, according to another allu- fion of his own adopting, as a branch is in the vine, fo as to receive nourimment from the root that feeds and fupports it. But ...« less