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1st. I believe in the Unity of
God, that
is, in Only One Almighty, All-Supreme, Unchangeable
God,
who is Indivisible without Comparison, as God Without
Co-Equal, Rival or Adjunct as God.
2d. I therefore cannot and do not believe in a "Trinity,"
or in the only one Indivisible God being divided; or in "Three Gods
being One," or "One being Three;" but I believe that we should "love
the Only One God, with all our heart, with all our soul, and with
all our might," Deut. 6:5, "and our neighbor as ourselves." Lev. 19:18.
3d. I believe in God's Most Holy Law, and the "Ten
Commandments," being the very best Law ever given to man to teach
him his whole duty towards his God, his neighbor, and himself.
4th. I believe in God's Most Holy Law being the very best
constitution, and strength of that incorporeal Being, or Existence, we call God; and as
the Law of the constitution of man is the strength of his corporeal Being, or Existence, here
on earth, so is the Law of God the constitution and strength of his incorporeal
Being, or Existence.
5th. I believe in the Resurrection of the Just
and Unjust, "some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting
contempt." See Dan. 12:2. I therefore believe in future rewards and punishments.
6th. I believe most firmly in the truth of all the words
and predictions of God's Most Holy Prophets, and that they will be all literally
fulfilled, first, and afterwards spiritually, most faithfully.
7th. I believe in the coming of the same
Prophet Elijah, in the very same Body that he ascended in, when
taken "up in the chariot of Fire," 2 Kings. 2:11 and 12.
8th. I believe most firmly in the coming of that
Messiah, or literally anointed of the Law and the Prophets, King David
in the Resurrection, and in Messiah Ben Joseph in the "time of
trouble," and in NO OTHER; and that they will come in these "Last
Days," and not 1800 years ago in the Meridian of time, and
that neither of these Messiahs can be God, nor never was God, nor never will be
God; but
God's most exalted, and most highly gifted creatures, next to himself.
WARDER CRESSON.
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