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AGAINST.-AOTS. XXVIII. 22.

EDITED BY

MR. ARTHUR WILCOCKSON,

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.

VOL. VIII.

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VOL. VIII.

ZION'S WITNESS.

OCTOBER, 1865.

No. 85

THE PATHWAY OF "TRUE LIGHT.”

"No heights of guilt, or depths of sin,
Where His redeem'd have ever been,
But sov'reign graee was underneath,
And love eternal, strong as death.”

THE following pages were originally written in a series of letters to a friend in Derbyshire, without any intention of being published, until he suggested that they might, after a careful revision, appear in "Zion's Witness:" but as his time was too much taken up with business to transcribe them, at my request, he returned them to me. I again looked them over, and really wondered how I could have written them. For the life of me I could not write them again; therefore I believe that they were written at the right time, in the right place, and under the right circumstances. This proves to

me that there are times when we can and must write, and times when we have no power or inclination to write. I am sure that it is so, and the living in Zion will bear me out in the statement; and this causes me to have a very poor opinion of those very nice sermons which many of our very nice preachers can make and arrange in such pleasing order just when and where they like. These so-called well-got-up or manufactured sermons are nothing but the production of pride and impertinence; and though a few of them may be sound in the letter, they are as destitute of the unction, life, and power of the Spirit, as void of love was the heart of Jezebel the witch when she vowed vengeance against Elijah the Prophet. I expect to be called a liar, if not a fool, for this my opinion, not only by the Arminian and letter Calvinists, but by some of the Lord's people; but notwithstanding my so-called bitterness against the "good ministers" and their very "highly

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