Truth is a common interest; it is every man's duty to convey it to his brother, if only it be a truth that concerns or may profit him, and he be competent to receive it. For we are not bound to say the truth, where we know that we cannot convey it, but very probably may impart a falsehood instead; no falsehoods being more dangerous than truths misunderstood, nay, the most mischievous errors on record having been half-truths taken as the whole.
But let it be supposed that the matter to be communicated is a fact of general concernment, a truth of deep and universal interest, a momentous truth involved in a most awe-striking fact, which all responsible creatures are competent to understand, and of which no man can safely remain in ignorance. Now this is the case with the matter, on which I am about to speak;
therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ!
Ib.
p. 176. A. B. C.
True Christian love not only permits, but enjoins, courtesy. God himself, says Donne, gave us the example.
Ib.
p. 177. A. C. E.
All excellent, and E. of deeper worth. All that is wanting here is to determine the true sense of 'knowing God,' — that sense in which it is revealed that to know God is life ever-lasting.
Ib p. 178. A.