Excerpt from Testimony of Jesus, the Spirit of Prophecy: A Sermon Preached at the Re-Opening of the Church of Augustus (Evangelical Lutheran), Trappe, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, September 5, 1860 Had the temper and spirit of moderation of those good men generally prevailed in our two communions, we should have found some way of coming together ere this, instead of remaining apart as we now do, adding to the unhappy divisions of the Christian world. No others of the reformed bodies ought rather to be one, for no others have so much in common. In all the great matters of the testi mony, we are one. We adhere to the ancient and univer sal creeds often found in your old Lutheran bibles as well as in our prayer-books. Lve have the same theological doctrines, seeing that your Augsburg. Confession was the basis of our XXXIX Articles, which confession, Bishop Bull, one of the great lights of the Church of England, after. Stating the fact that our articles were framed on it, pro nounces the noblest symbol of the Reformed Churches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.