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imagination to tlie summit of * a very lofty mountain , recollecting that his predecessor Moses saw the JaWdt of promise from the top of Pisgah . Conceiving * himself- to be surveying ^ from aa ^ exceedingly high eiaiiifeft ^ e a vast extent of
country aroctnd him ^ abounding with m & rks of great Wealth , splendour and power ,, the thought presently occurs ; upon whatever grounds the Jews build their hope o £ getting all these' things into tfieir po & sessipn ^ by what means
can I have the most distant pros . pect of acquiring them fW my own or their aggraadizernent , unless by paying the most servile adulation and homage to their present proprietors for the cession
of them , if there were anycliance of sucli a inethod succeeding ? B tit ' to employ it would T > e to violate the duty and allegiance which I owe to the MostHigh $ mhoruleth in . the kingdom of men ettdgivcth it to whomsoever he will ; and who , if he intended these ob .
jects For nie or my nation , ^ would make known his design , and pro . vide means for its accomplish . raent ,. This he has not done : and the thought of attempting , without his sanction and by im .
pious and idolatrous means , what is evidently contrary to Ris will , must be suggested by the devil ; ttitt though ^ is dismissed with sorereigm abhorrence ^ and the apof each
pnjhended' ^ utlroir msidious proposal bidden to depart . Accordingl y ^ no more tempting jJidtiglits suggesting themselves to hi $ mind for the present , the temptor left him for a season .
It mutit ftow be 6 een hy th $ sp ffl jj ' jffl & t re ^ d ^ rs , if any ^ such there ti & i ' , ^ jiKo JKife ^ 3 Ven-themselvfesk the trouble of reading : my letters on
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the terftptatioa already coimau ^ nicat ^ d , that though I agree vvith that excdleht { JhiAstian and ingenious critic , Mr ; CL , in ^ s ^ p * poaina th ^ trial s of our Lord iu the desert to hiw ^ keen thou ghts , which thetfe t ! krcarre 4 to hit mmd ,
yet I differ from him in opinion coricfernmg th ^ cm $ es to which Christ himself ascribed them , or from which he copceived them to proceed , as well as in © pinion concerning their real ca ^ ises ^ the situations and time * , wkere ahd
when they presented themseifcf to his mind ? and the space of time , within which they passed througk it . Whetbef Mr . G ; t hypothesis , as it came fipotri + the pen of the able and leatned pro * poser , or with the alterations , which I have ventured to suggest
as being , ia' my humble opinion , emendations , will , in the one ox the othey form , &* rec ^ vfed by se many in the literary wovld , as appeared till lately to adopt and may perhaps still adbpt Mr ., Far ^ mer % it must be left to tim & fe >
determine . My principal object at my outset was tah show , that this gentletnati s hypothesis doe * not stand on So firm a foundation as many seemed to < Imagine .,
If by what I have ialready venw tured , or may * fey- ? ydur teave , Sir , farther venture * to subiiritto the examihatioti of tihe public « Hi a question of some acknowledged importance , I should be happy enough to ; findk that i have thrown
any x | ew light into the miinJs of any religious inquifers ^ ojp th ^ t 1 have been an instruimefit i » pro curing such for ttnyiself or Qth & rb who may chatiice to have adapted sentiments similar to mine t ^ jori tftie subject of ? these letters , & t aity atliers ooiyuect ^ d vtith it * t * ti * H
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€ 44 v c > Qlhthe Temptjiijtum of Christ . ~*~ Letter IF *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/24/
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