TRUTHS MAINTAINED.

BY JAMES BIDEN.

1. THE Anti-Christ, not atheistic anarchy, but a false ecclesiastical system.

2. The Church on earth, not a body having an ecclesiastical organization, but composed of members of Christ's body in spiritual union.

3. The term "kingdom of heaven," as used by our Lord, has two meanings: one for the nominal kingdom, the other for the spiritual, or true, kingdom. The one meaning, as applied to the nominal kingdom, including good and bad, is not the Church. The other, as applied to the spiritual kingdom on earth, is the Church.

4. In the nominal, or catholic, kingdom are rulers and teachers, but not ecclesiastics. In the true kingdom, or the Church, is universal priesthood.

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5. The power of the keys, as it is called in ecclesiastical language, is not granted to a ministry, but is granted to the Church,-the faithful in Christ.

6. Water baptism admits to the outer or nominal kingdom; Spirit baptism, to the inner or true kingdom, -the one baptism being independent and irrespective of the other.

7. The Eucharist not a sacrifice, but a commemoration of a completed sacrifice.

8. Life is union with God: death is separation from God. Some have life here: all have life hereafter.

9. The creeds of Christendom being opposed to God's Word, and the religious practices necessarily heterodox which flow from erroneous doctrines, it becomes imperative, when God vouchsafes increased light, that a Reformation be entered upon.

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