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[5] For a brief account of the subjects, the author, and the date of every
book in the Holy Scriptures, see the preface to each in Dr. Clarke's
Commentary; and also his "Clavis Biblica," a work that contains a fund
of most important information in a very small compass.—S.D.
[6] Those who wish to see an attempt to demonstrate, by arguments a
priori and a posteriori, the necessary existence of a supreme and eternal
Being, are referred to the doctor's Commentary, Heb. xi, at the
end.—S.D.
[7] The sentiments contained in the following letter are worthy the
attention of the reader:—
"Millbrook, Prescot, Jan. 21st, 1823.
"MY DEAR BROTHER DUNN,
"Last evening I received your letter of the 19th ult., and was not a little
glad to hear from you: and still more rejoiced to hear such good news. I
plainly see that every thing is going on as God usually conducts his work.
I do not regret your being shut out of the churches; to such God never yet
gave us a call: nor are we to build on other men's foundations. We have
a work to do peculiar to ourselves. We know our own sorrows in the
operation; and no stranger intermeddles with our joy. I should not wonder
to hear next that you are denounced from the pulpits as deceivers and
heretics. Boldly proclaim all the truth. Preach it with all its proofs and
evidences; and leave that villanous stuff that is in concert with the Eleven
Letters as perfectly unnoticed as if it never had existed. I am quite of Mr.
Wesley's mind, that once 'we leaned too much toward Calvinism,' and
especially in admitting, in any sense, the unscriptural doctrine of the
imputed righteousness of Christ. I never use the distinction of
righteousness imputed, righteousness imparted, righteousness practised.
In no part of the book of God is Christ's righteousness ever said to be
imputed to us for our justification; and I greatly doubt whether the
doctrine of Christ's active obedience in our justification does not take
away from the infinite merit of his sacrificial death: and whether by fair
construction, and legitimate deduction, it will not go to prove, if admitted