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effect, all this power, and authority, and love, and reverence, which cleave inseparably to his death and resurrection. In the next place, with a wonderful, and as it seems to me, a melancholy hardihood, they undertake to deny, and sweep away, all that solemn and attested history of the resurrection of Jesus in the Gospels; all that mighty influence produced by it on the minds of the apostles, and all the point and power of their preaching, as recorded in the book of their Acts; and finally all the importance and meaning of their references to it, as they are written down in their Epistles. Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, all are denied in this one denial. Is it not necessary that the resurrection of Christ should be preached now, as in the former time? Are there none who reject it; none who doubt it; none who receive it with a weak acceptance, insensible to its power and its connexion with all Christian holiness? Certainly it must be preached; not to the exclusion of other topics; not too frequently, as if Christians were not Christians, and needed to be converted to, what they already believe, but preached so that when denied it may be defended; so that when in danger of being forgotten, it may be kept in mind; so that when faintly spoken of as something not now important, it may be shown to be now and ever all-important; so that when other doctrines, perhaps of mortal manufacture, shall be thrust into its place as essential, it may be maintained in its place as the great essential. Here the apostles furnish our example in their epistles; writing to Christians as Christians, and therefore on a variety of Christian subjects, but always bearing in mind the resurrection of Christ, the gospel which they first had preached.

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BY REV. A. B. MUZZEY.

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