It were surely preferable to labour under the blindest mistakes concerning the essence of God, or the person of Christ, than be guilty of believing such atrocious representations as these of their moral character. The zealous may scout us if they choose, as infidels; but if Calvinism and Christianity were identical, infidelity would be virtue, it would be but the righteous rebellion of human nature against creeds, in vindication of the truth of its own affections, and the rectitude of its God.
Footnotes for Lecture IV.
[151]. See Note on [John xii].
[152]. John x. 34-36.
[153]. Acts xvii. 30, 31.
[154]. 1 Cor. xv. 21, 47.
[155]. Acts. x.