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10/1/03
"The sacred record states: 'Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He
revealeth His secrets unto His servants the Prophets.' (Amos 3:7).
From this we learn that if there are no prophets of the Lord, then our
Heavenly Father is doing nothing in a religious sense among the people of
this earth; but if He is doing a work among them for their redemption, then
there must be prophets. By this it will be easy to ascertain whether the
prediction of Amos has been verified or not. Who, previous to the year 1827,
for many centuries has found in his researches an inspired prophet who could
stand in the midst of the people and say, 'Thus saith the Lord? Have not the
people denied the prophets and visions of heaven? We learn from the
nineteenth chapter of Revelations that 'the testimony of Jesus is the spirit
of prophecy.' Therefore, if any have had this testimony they have been
inspired with the spirit of prophecy. And again, we are informed by the
Savior, as written in the sixteenth chapter of John, that the 'Spirit of
truth shall guide into all truth,' and 'show you things to come.' Who has
seen things to come? And where is the word of the Lord? Surely not with
those who deny prophets and apostles." - Matthias F. Cowley,
"Cowley's Talks on Doctrine," p. 23-24
11/1/05
"No Latter-day Saint has any right or title to the
fellowship of the Spirit of God if he entertains an acrimonious spirit against
any living man or woman." - Matthias F. Cowley, "Conference Report," April 1901,
Afternoon Session, p.18
6/28/09
“The following passage of Scripture is often cited to prove that the Savior is
the only personal being in the Deity: ‘Neither pray I for these alone, but for
them also which shall believe on me through their word; that they all may be
one; as Thou, Father, art in me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us;
that the world may believe that Thou hast sent me. And the glory which Thou
gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.’ (John
17:20-22). The very wording of this Scripture shows that the Father and the Son
are not one in person, because He prays that all the disciples may be one in the
same manner that the Father and the Son are one, and one in that sense only, for
the simple reason that the oneness of the Father and the Son is perfect and
complete. Their unity consists in being one in wisdom, one in knowledge, one in
power, one in council, having a unity of purpose in the accomplishment of man's
salvation to the tallest extent and in every conceivable respect. The disciples
of Jesus could not be one in person, for each of himself is a separate
individuality; they can be one, however, as the Father and Son are one, in the
accomplishment of one great purpose—the salvation of mankind—because they are
baptized by one Spirit into one body, even the church of Christ; they have one
Lord, one faith and one baptism, and are all taught of God, having ‘access by
one Spirit unto the Father’ (Eph 2:18), who is not the author of confusion, and
cannot consistently, with His own attributes, contradict Himself.” -
Matthias F. Cowley, “Cowley's Talks on
Doctrine,” p. 80
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