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The Epistle to the Ephesians is evidently a catholic epistle, addressed to / the whole of what might be called St. Paul's diocese. It is one of the / divinest compositions of man. It embraces every doctrine of Christianity; -- / first, those doctrines peculiar to Christianity, and then those precepts / common to it with natural religion. The Epistle to the Colossians is the / overflowing, as it were, of St. Paul's mind upon the same subject.
The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to / make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in / my judgment, a sin to do so. The Jews' oath is an adjuration by the judge / to the witness: "In the name of God, I ask you. " There is an express / instance of it in the high-priest's adjuring or exorcising Christ by the / living God, in the twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew, and you will observe / that our Lord answered the appeal.[1]