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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3004, 15 October 1891, Page 5 (Supplement)

pRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY PUBLISHED FOR THE SPECIAL Bb.VEFIT OF NoXChurciigokrs. j True Christian Religion, intelligently under* J stood, comes not to add to men's burdens but to | remove them. " For God sent not his Son into ! the world to condemn the world, but that the I world through Him might be saved." John iH, ; 3.7 I Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use of j this New Age, are summarised as follows —• There is one God, in whom is a Divine j Trinity of Lore, Wisdom and Operation, , I and He is the Lord Jesus Christ. I Saving Faith is to believe in Him. : i Evils are to be shunned, because they ; are of the devi.' and from the devil. i i Good Works ought to be Jotio, because 1 ; they are of God and from God, and they 1 ought to be done by man as of himself, but j with the belief that they are from the Lord, operating in him by hi:n. ■ There are two things which constitute the 1 essence of God—love and wisdom. And there : are thre<* which constitute the essence of His ; love—to love others out of Himself; to desire to ; be one with them ; and to make them happy from ; Himself, The same three constitute the essence i , o| His wisdom ; because love and wisdom in j 1 God make one, and love wills these things, a:id ; ; wisdom accomplishes them. True Christian i | Religion, No. 'lii. ! ! The word of God is Divine truth clothed in i j human language, .'jnd adapted to the varied i states of the human heart, that thus a mail may i knew God, and learn to know and do His will, j "I f ye continue in My word, then are ye My j disciples indeed." John viii. 31. '■ Tlaerclore i all things whatsoever ye would that men should ! do unto jou: do ye evci so unto them ; tor this ; is the law andjthe prophets. .Matt. vii. 8. ! The Ten Commandments point out what o.vils i arc to be shunned in order that men may attain ; eternal life. ' "That it is not so difficult to ivc the life o' t j heaven as if ccmmonly believed is evident fron. , < this —that when anything presents itself that on# 1 7 knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his " J mind is disposed, he need not only think that it j j ought not to be done because it is contrary to . i the Divine commands. If a man accustoms him- ! ! self so to think, and from custom derives the j i habit, he is than by degrees conjoined to heaven ; I and in so far as he is conjoined to heaven, the j i higher degrees of his mind are opened ; and in so i ] ftir as these are opened he sees what is insincere I 1 and unjust.; and in so far as he sees theaj evils I they can bo shaken off, for it impossiole l.nak any j i evil can be shaken off until it be seen. This is a ! i state into which a man may enter from freedom ; | i for who is not capable from freedom of thinking i ! in this manner ? Hut when he has made a begin- j ning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, j ani? He causes him not only to see evils, but al- ! • sonot to will them, and finally to become averse j ' to them. This is meant by the Lord's words, j j "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." j ! Matt. xi. 30. But it should be known that the j | difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resisting j | evils, increases in proportion as a man from the I wills commit evils, for in so far he becomes j accustomed to them, until at length be docs not ] seethem, and afterwards loves tbem, and from i the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they j arc allowable and good. But this occurs with i those who in the age, of adolescence plunge into I evils as if without restraint, and at the same time i reject Divine things from ttie heart."—" Heaven j atnd Hell," No. 5u3. ' This advertisement, though containing truth for J all, is especially published for the benefit of those . who from any cause do not profit by ordinary j | religious ministrations. Those who approve of » I the doctrines here enunciated, and who desire to ' ' assist in the work of disseminating them, are in- ; j vited to communicate u*th Mr J. E. Hawley, St. ! j Martin's, Christchurch, New Zealand, who will < ! be glad to afford all necessary information, and j i supply a copy of " The Doctrine of Life," gratis : and post free to any one desirous of perusing it. ; The works of Emanuel Swedenborg, and cognate j

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