New Testament Theologu:

INDEPENDENT OF, AND UNFETTERED BY

THE TRADITIONS OF MEN.

BY

ELIHU JOHNSON.

BOSTON, MASS.:

A. D. 1883.

PON introducing this work to the public, the author first desires to say, that this volume is written to especially vindicate the character of of our Heavenly Father, which has been so grossly aspersed and defamed during many centuries, by those religious teachings which so misrepresent the true nature of the Most High. And this is desired, that man may become better acquainted with his Creator, the only true God, whom to know aright is life everlasting. And this remark applies not only to persons making no pretension to the religion of Christ, but also to very many who do. For every man's God is to him, experimentally, just what he believes that God to be, as his view and comprehension of God is in exact keeping with his belief in regard to God; and that belief is in harmony with his religious instruction and experience. This is readily shown from the following language of Jesus to the Pharisees of his day, who thought they knew God,— "Jesus answered, Ye know not either me, or my Father. It is my Father that glorifies me, of whom ye say that he is your God; and ye have not known him," John 8: 19, 54, 55. As religious teachers, the Pharisees presented their God to the people; but