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    the unhappy condition of his apostate follower . The traitor having been pointed out and left the com . pnny ? he carries his eye beyond the period of suffering immediately before him , and represents himself , in the language of holy triumph , as being glorified ,

    hereby showing the full assurance he felt of being raised again from a state of death , and advanced to a rank of distinguished honour by his heavenly Father . Thus supported in a situation , in which , his external circumstances alone

    considered , every thing calculated to overwhelm his mind with dejection was combined , he with a compassion , which seems to have entirely overcome all selfish regards , endeavours in language plainly dictated by the warmest affection to console his sorrowing

    disciples , whose hearts were filled with trouble and fear at the idea of parting with a friend , in whom they had been accustomed to behold an unequalled assemblage of great and amiable qualities

    adapted to engage their highest respect , affection and confidence- lie afterwards exhorts them to the exercise of mutual love , gives them his peace , tells them it was

    necessary ibr him on their account , to leave them for the present , and assures them of his return to take them unto himself , that they might be where he himself should be . All this could

    bear no resemblance to the behaviour of a person of a deranged understanding . Now to deliver in such circumstances , with calm dignity and unhesitating confidence , the most pathetic and consolatory address to his desponding followers , and moreover to institute at tbe sa * no

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    time a rite , professedly designed to perpetuate the remembrance of himself , was not only to betray no symptom of insanity , but bespoke a consciousness of integrity

    and a reliance on God for the support of his character and cause , which one can hardly imagine any thing but gross ignorance of human nature , or most determined scepticism capable of

    suspecting to be nothing better than wild enthusiasm or well-disguised hypocrisy . By enjoining the observance of a rite , which by its very nature was adapted to bring under review , the public disgtace and infamy in which he died , he chose the most likely method , had he been really acting the part of an impious deceiver , of transmitting his name to posterity * loaded with contempt and detestation . It does not seem possible to conceive , that ho could have acted with such deliberation as h # appears to have . done in appointing the ordinance of his supper ,

    without being aware , that , it he were an impostor , which would be soon discovered , he was abort to fix ( as far as it was in his power to do it ) an everlasting brand of infamy on his character . And what motive could he possibly have had for acting in so foolish

    a manner , to say the least of his conduct ? All worldly views , if he had been weak enough to have indulged any , were soon to be

    terminated by a . public execution of the most disgraceful kind ; and no future ones , which can be conceived to have operated on his mind in the way of motives , ha , d he been conscious of being an impostor , could have been entertained ; for such , if he could liatve evev had them in contemplar

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    An Address at the Lord ' s Supper , by Mr . Bretland , of Exeter . 19 . 9

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    VOL . IV . S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/9/