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Mr. Wright, on the Person vf Christ* 637
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MR, WRIGHT^ REPLY TO C€ AN OLD DISCIPLE ...
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To Sir, The Cry Of €C No Popery," Has Re...
imitate ly ape the dress of the clergy of either church " M _y who P pompoustheir manners , —who talk of y eople , —My
C hurch , — -My Pulpit / ' I reply , " No Popery , " gentlemen , iQ is our master , even Christ , and all we are brethren / ' I trace the departed spirit of Rome also , where it is Least suspected to take up its residence , and find it lurking with an ill grace under the broad brim and plain garb of our quaker friends ; and when I read the proceedings of the . Society against Hannah Barnard _^ —when I find those ornaments to human nature * a Rathbone and a Matthews , I voice " No Popery /' are of the disowned , call with a louder friends .
Having thus traced the persecuting spirit for whichthe Church of Rome has been so eminently distinguished into our _various assemblies for public worshi p * I hope you will allow me a place in your valuable publication * which promises fair to be the rallying point for the friends of truth * liberty and peace * to concentrate their forces * aad chase the monster Persecution into eternal oblivion . Hertford , July 10 , I remain , Sec R . F 1807
Mr. Wright, On The Person Vf Christ* 637
Mr . Wright , on the Person vf Christ * 637
Mr, Wright^ Reply To C€ An Old Disciple ...
MR , WRIGHT _^ REPLY TO C € AN OLD DISCIPLE * ' ON THE _PJETHSON OF CH 3 UST . _Jft _j _'/} Sir Your correspondent ( see p . 469 ) has statedI attend " the Unitarian ] ' To the Editor of the Monthly Repository t , who signs himself An old Disciple , two difficulties , which he supposes to hypothesis of the person of Christ ; * and
he seems to expect I should notice them . I have no objection to doing this , and it certainly would give me pleasure to satisfy so candid an inquirer after truth . How far it will be in my power to obviate his difficulties is another thing ; however , I will make the attempt . His first difficulty _« - « * m apostles , as the spirit was given without measure to him . It is declared ( John iii . 34 . ) _iC God giveth not the S Spirit by measure to him . " It is granted that in this passage the word Spirit relates to miraculous gifts and supernatural communications ; It is also granted that , according to the words of Jesus , ( John xiv _, 12 . ) the apostles , after his exaltation , did greater works than he had done before his death . But then it ought to be rememrelates to ChristV being superior to his was given without measure to him . It is . ) _iC God giveth not the pirit by measure
bered that the above words are in the present tense , and _include not merely the gifts he received during his personal ministry , but those also which were given him when he ascended up o _&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/17/
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