SPEAKER, is called the SPIRIT OF TRUTH? And can life mean any thing but the GOOD of that DIVINE LOVE, which is the only source of all INTELLIGENCE and TRUTH? The WORD OF GOD then, it is plain, is the grand receptacle, or storehouse, of those two DIVINE PRINCIPLES, by and from which the heavens and the earth were originally created; and which, in that HOLY BOOK, are brought down for the reception and life of man; agreeable to what is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of GOD,” [Deut. viii. 3.; Matt. iv. 4.]. Accordingly, man, we find, is endowed with two distinct faculties, called will and understanding; his will being intended for the reception of the GOOD of the DIVINE LOVE, and his understanding for the reception of the TRUTH of the DIVINE WISDOM or INTELLIGENCE.
Behold here, then, the ground of the caution, which I am eager to press upon you, respecting the HOLY WORD of the MOST HIGH! In hearing this DIVINE RECORD, if you are not well upon your guard, you will hear nothing but sound, and will be deaf to substance; in other words, you will hear nothing but the dead letter and history, but will not hear the living principles of the DIVINE LOVE and INTELLIGENCE contained in that letter and history. Than you will
