A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 101
101 who came to establish the unity and the glory of God is charged with having claimed to be the Son of God; and it is alleged that Jesus and the Holy Ghost are partners in the Godhead. Can there be greater blasphemy? There is no greater sin than to put the sovereign and the subject, the master and the servant and the creator and the created on the same level. But all this is being done in the name of Jesus and is believed in as the very truth! Again, to secure their own salvation they hold that a righteous man “was made a curse” and say that he continued thus for three days and three nights; and to establish this doctrine they represent God, whose Mercy encompasseth all, as a wanton tyrant, and they put Him on a level lower than that assigned to an ordinary mortal, for the latter forgives those who have sinned against him but God cannot. Again, it is said that the Law is a curse; ∗ or, in other words, that Noah and Abraham and Moses and other prophets came with the curse of God; but we are not told which part of the Law is a curse. Is this a curse that is written: Thou shalt not steal nor commit adultery nor murder? Or, is this a curse that is written: Thou shalt not tell a lie, nor transgress, nor trespass against others? Or, is this a curse that is written: Thou shall not behave ill, nor backbite, nor cause disturbance? Or is this a curse that is written: Thou shalt speak truth and love mankind and forgive those who trespass against thee? Or, is this a curse that is written: Thou shalt keep the ∗ Galatians iii, 13.