[72]. Eccl. Hist. (Mosheim) vol. I, bk. ii, part ii.
[73]. I Cor. xii: 8-10.
[74]. That it was proper for the Christian bishops to increase the restraints upon the licentiousness of transgression, will be readily granted by all who consider the circumstances of those times. But whether it was for the advantage of Christianity, to borrow rules for this salutary ordinance from the enemies of truth, and thus to consecrate, as it were, a part of the pagan superstition, many persons very justly call in question.—Eccl. Hist. (Mosheim) book I, cent. 2, part ii, ch. iii.
[75]. Gen. i:26, 27. Jesus Christ was in the form of man, yet he is said to be the express image of God's person—Heb. i: 1-2.
[76]. Matt. iii: 16, 17.
[77]. Acts vii: 55, 56.
[78]. John x: 30, and John xiv: 8-11.
[79]. John xvii: 11, 21.
[80]. John xiv: 26. John xv: 26. John xvi: 13-15.
[81]. John xvii: 4, 5.