Minutes and Discourses, 11 April 1844
Minutes and Discourses, 11 April 1844
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Council of Fifty, Minutes, and JS, Discourses, , Hancock Co., IL, 11 Apr. 1844; in Council of Fifty, “Record,” pp. [94]–[141]; handwriting of ; CHL.
errors and fill the interstices where it was lacking. He had considered that a Theocracy consisted in our exercising all the intelligence of the council, and bringing forth all the light which dwells in the breast of every man, and then let God approve of the document & receiveing the sanction of the council it becomes a law. Theocracy as he understands it is, for the people to get the voice of God and then acknowledge it, and see it executed. It is necessary for the council to exhaust their wisdom, and except they do they will never know but they are as wise as God himself, and ambitious men will, like Lucifer think they are as wise as God and will try to lift themselves up and put their foot [p. [104]]
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