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more true of parts of the Gospel which are more important than any of which I have spoken.
Can one part be more important than another, if all is the Word of God?
Yes; the smallest parts of the Gospel are more precious than any other thoughts that were ever written or spoken; but some are more precious than others, since some are written to explain others. The things which were done were of God through Christ, while the words which explained them were of men. — Jesus came forth alive from the sepulchre on the third day after he had been known to die. This miracle was done by God alone. The Apostle Paul wrote to show that as Christ rose, other men would rise from the dead. God knew what he wrote; God gave him to understand the thing of which he wrote; and God permitted what he wrote to be spread abroad in the world, and to be believed in by all who believed the Gospel. Therefore I receive what Paul wrote, and am thankful that his wisdom has thus come to me; but I think it less important than the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. If the epistles which Paul wrote had been lost, I might still have under-
