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reader , do you imagine the author gives so plump a negative to the question ? Hear him— * Aaron was called of God ; but he was publicly ordained by Moses . The example of Moses and Aaron is , to be sure , an excellent model for the construction of a Christian church ! But let the conduct of these two Jews be appealed to throughout , and not in partial instances , and it will suffice to point out a more liberal church ^ establishment than any which has been hitherto framed by ecclesiastical statesmen . I refer the Bishop to an anecdote told
of the Jewish legislator , whom he seems unaccountably to mistake for the head of the Christian church , in which there appears a degree of liberality which a modern priest would reprobate as latitudinarianism . < c And there ran a young man "a member , probably , of a society for promoting church-union" and told Moses , and said , Eldad and Medad "—two soldiers
who had not been to receive ordination at " the tabernacle " - — s do prophesy in the camp . And Joshua , the son of Nun , the servant of Moses , one of his young men "—a loyal , hi ghspirited officer— - " answered and said , My lord , Moses , forbid them . And Moses said unto him , Enviest thou for my sake ? Would God all the Lord ' s people were prophets , and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ! " Ah ! ye Christian ministers , who , trampling on the humility of Jesus , climb into * Moses' seat , ' how long will ye forget that even Moses is a pattern of meekness ! C € There is one that cbndemneth you , even Moses , in whom you trust /* With regard to the < c inward call , "" the Bishop further asks , Who are now to Cf
judge whether the call be of God or not ? " and answers—The bishops of the church , who have public authority given unto them for this purpose "—by the scriptures , and from the one only Master of Christians ? No , — " according to the ancient
usage of the church and the laws of the land . " We have before heard of the omnipotence of Parliament and the infallibility of the church : they are here invested with the power , indisputably divine , of communicating the attribute of omniscience , the capacity of searching men ' s hearts , and trying their reins !
Immediately after this follows a section which , in point of logical precision and strength of argument , may vie with any part of the writings of the most profound fathers or schoolmen * ; a true Athanasian specimen of theological writing , * " In school-divinity as able As he that hight irrefragable * A second Thomas , or , at once , * J \> name them all , another Z > w »< vf—Hudiura ** f Duns Sfcotus .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/19/
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