Mammon or Covetousness the Sin of the Christian Chruch. By Rev. John Harris; Anti-Mammon, or an Exposure of the Unscriptural Statements of Mammon [pp. 222-239]

Maimmon, and dnti-Mlamrnon.
God-who, as our Priest, offered up himself a sacrifice to reconcile us to God, and now makes continual intercession for
us-and who, as our King, subdues Lus to himself, rules and
defends us, and restrains and conquers all his and our enemies-when such an account of this adorable Saviour is presented before him, exclaim, in bitterness of soul, " Ye
have taken away my Lord, and I know not where ye have
laid him."
If Christ, in his offices and dignity is thus lowered and
debased, the crown being taken from his brow, the sceptre
from his hands, and all power and authority from his mediatorial work, we may be sure that the church will be proportionally magnified and exalted in her official character.
"He instituted a church for the express purpose of employing it for the benefit of the world," p. 15. "Feeling themselves reinforced with the benevolence of heaven they
would meditate the conversion of the world." "Nothing
less than the salvation of the whole world would be regarded by them as the complement of their number, the fulfilment of their office, and the consummation of their joy,"p. 17.
"They felt they were constituted trustees for the world;
executors of a Saviour who had'"bequeathed happiness to
man; guardians of the most sacred rights in the universe."
"No elements essential to success has been left out of its
arrangements (i. e. the church); all those elements have
always been in the possession of the church. Why has the
gospel been threatened, age after age, with failure? Owing
entirely to the selfishness of the church," p. 22. "That
our blessed Lord consecrated his church to the high office
of converting the world is evident," see p. 123. "He is
yearning for the happiness of the perishing world-but the
church is so steeped in the spirit of selfishness (and that is
all he has to work by), that his grace is held under restraint. And even the limited d(legree in which their selfishness has allowed him to bless their agency," &c. p. 171. In
p. 225, the church is described as now "hastening to atone
for the past by instituting one society after another," &c.
See also pp. 131, 169 and 197.
The representation which is thus made of the office, duty,
and power of the church, we regard as a most melancholy
perversion of the truth. Mr. Harris probably supposed that
by elevating the standard of dtity the members of the church
wvould be awakened to activity and zeal. But in thus magnifying the office of the church he commits sacrilege upon
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