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Memoir Of Tie Rev. §Amuel Stubbs,.; Birm...
situation allowed us but a few interviews in the course of fifty-three years , and but seldom had we , through our different and various engagements , exchanged letters . If it be not deemed impertinent , to the obituarv of Mr . Marshall
I would add , that he entered Mr . Coward ' s academy with myself in Sept . 1761 , under the Rev . Dr . David Jennings , and Mr * ( after . wards Dr . ) Samuel Morton Savage : that from the moment of
our meeting in that seminary an intimate friendship commenced between us , of the dissolution of wliich by death your Repository has given the writer of this para-
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graph the first information . Mr . Marshall began his ministry at Marl borough , in Wilts : and from thence he removed to Lidzit . The
character drawn by J . D . and J . T . is the finished portrait of th £ picture , the outlines of which he who now addresses you witnessed , and highly esteemed at the age of sixteen . An useful , may it be
an impressive , memento to your youthful readers , that the character , in general , in the great traits of it is formed and fixed in our earliest years . It takes its colour
in the bloom of life ; age crowns it with glory . J . T .
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324 Essay r > n the Evidences of the Jewish Revelation *
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Essay on the Evidences of the Jewish Heve / atiuH . Sir , May 23 , 1814 . From the existence of the Jews at this clay , their condition for ^ gonie ages past , the credit due to the books that they receive as sacred , the miracles and prophecies of which those books furnish an
account , the marks of impartiality and truth in the writers , the nature and object of their religion , and the excellence of their civil arid moral laws , we may establish the divine origin of the Musaic dispensation .
Jri this country , and in almost ^ Tcry other , families and individuals are found whose customs proclaim them to be entirely distinct from the res £ of the nations of the earth , ) et who , though
sufficientl y separated from the inhabitants of the territories where tb ^ y settle 6 r sojourn , have urjlilie all foreigners be * ides , ho Aome , no outward independence
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as a people . Such are the Jews-: their case is different in many respects from that of those races of men who have been subdued b y war or groaned under oppression :
and they are least numerous on the very spot to which we must in reason suppose that tneir attachment is greatest—I mean , the former seat of their government and religion . This singular
community , if such they may be styled , firmly persevere , whithersoever they go , in the worship of one God , the Father . So strict indeed is their adherence to the laws derived from their ancestors
which they obey as completely and punctually as their circumstances allow , that they have been charged by superficial inquirers with the grossest obstinacy !
The question to be considered is , whether the state of the Jews will be better explained on the principles of the believer or on those of trie unbeliever t Now on
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/4/
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