What he agrees with he thinks is heavenly, and what
he disagrees with is of hell. He has made his own god for himself
out of himself. His own prejudices are his god, and he worships them
right worthily; and if the Lord were to come down on earth again, and
would not say the words which he is accustomed to say, it would go
hard but he would crucify the Lord again, as the Pharisees did of
old.
My friends, there is too much of this bigotry, this blasphemy against
God's Spirit, abroad in England now. May God keep us all from it!
Pray to Him night and day, to give you His Spirit, that you may not
only be loving, charitable, full of good works yourselves, but may be
ready to praise and enjoy a good, and loving, and merciful action,
whosoever does it, whether he be of your religion or not; for nothing
good is done by any living man without the grace of Christ, and the
inspiration of the Spirit of God, the Father of lights, from whom
comes down every good and perfect gift. And whosoever tries to
escape from that great truth, when he sees a man whose doctrines are
wrong doing a right act, by imputing bad motives to him, or saying:
"His actions must be evil, however good they may look, because his
doctrines are wrong,"--that man is running the risk of committing the
very same sin as the Pharisees, and blaspheming against the Holy
Spirit, by calling good evil.
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