, in which, according to my conviction, the Scriptures must be read and tried, is no other than the earnest,
What shall I do to be saved?
with the inward consciousness, — the gleam or flash let into the inner man through the rent or cranny of the prison of sense, however produced by earthquake, or by decay, — as the ground and antecedent of the question; and with a predisposition towards, and an insight into, the
a priori
probability of the Christian dispensation as the necessary consequents. This is the holy spirit in us praying to the Spirit, without which
no man can say that Jesus is the Lord:
a text which of itself seems to me sufficient to cover the whole scheme of modern Unitarianism with confusion, when compared with that other, —
I am the Lord (Jehovah): that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another
. But in the Unitarian's sense of 'Lord,' and on his scheme of evidence, it might with equal justice be affirmed, that no man can say that Tiberius was the Emperor but by the Holy Ghost.
Ib.