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Excerpt from The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London, Vol. 2 of 2: Illustrated by His Journals and Correspondence
This was the preacher's view, standing above the crowd with his eyes and his thoughts in the heavens but other eyes and thoughts were in the cloudy regions underneath, watching that lofty perilous career into the Divine mysteries, without either light to lead, or faith to follow. An idle clergyman, called Cole, of whom nobody seems to know anything but that he suddenly appeared out of darkness at this moment to do his ignoble office - heard by the wind of rumour, which at that time was constantly carrying something of the eloquent preacher's lavish riches about the world, Of what appeared to him a new doctrine. The imme diate cause was an address delivered by Irving in be half of a society for the distribution of Gospel Tracts, in which some of his audience discovered that the. Preacher declared the human nature of our Saviour to be identical with all human nature, truly and in actual verity the seed of Abraham. This, coming to the ears of Mr. Cole, apparently, at the moment, a man at leisure, and in a condition to set his laborious brethren right and find out their errors, filled the soul of that virtuous critic with alarm and horror. To him the world seems to be indebted for the disingenuous state ment of this new View, if new View it was, which, by giving the name of the sinfulness of Christ's human nature to that which in Irving's eyes was the actual redemption of human nature through Christ, inevitably prejudiced and prejudged the question with the mass of religious people. Few can follow those fine and delicate intricacies and distinctions which encompass.
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