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    ous ejiquijicr , what he concealed from his sincere and avowed ^ folluwcrs . But it is farther to be observed , that Jesus is here speaking of himself'as one . having ; a human form

    and nature , as " the Son of Man /' and we are told by the apostle , if we needed any assurance upon thissubjectj " that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God . ** That Jesus , as . tfre Son

    of IWan , could ifi ^ a ^ literal sense have ascended into hearv ^ enyhave descended from heaven , and have been at the same moment

    in ^ heaven , is only consistent with the faith of ^ hose who ' admit , that the bread and wine used in the eucharist , after the benediction of the priest , are actually

    transformed into the body and blood of Christy though , to the human senses , and in every asccrtainable property and quality , they are certainly still bread and wine , as much so as those which have not

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    been transformed by the priestly benediction . It is very evident however , that Jesus is not speaking of himself , but of his authority and doctrine ; of the commission and communications which he had received from heaven ^ which he was authorised to make known

    to mankind ^ und in the exercise of which commission he was then engaged . It is equally evident , that he is alluding to the autho . rity and mission of other prophets ^ particularly of Moses , and inti - mating that his own \ v ^ s much superior , his characteH Bre-eminent , and the communications

    which he had to make much more extensive .. The following verse decidedly proves that Jesus had the ^ ejvrsh lawgiver in his mind , when lie made use of the figura * tive language . See Jones ' s Illustrations of the Gospels ^ in locum , Halifax 9 J . W . June 16 , 1809 *

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    sufficient number of copies be distributed among his parishioners , he adds , I would not have the said sermons published for sale . ' Under thc ^ c circumstances , and without any reference tp the $ u& - lity of jthc sermons , we have \} Q hesitation in saying that they

    * A copy of the firsc edition is before us : we have seen the fourth advertized

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    44 * 8 Review . ' - ^—Paleys Sermons

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    Art . I . Sermons , on several Subjects , by the late Rev . William Pdley IX i ? . $ c . fyc . Longm ^«? aj 3 icl Co . pp . 543 . * 8 vo . 1808 .

    An advertisement prefixed to these . discourses , informs us that tfcu'y were not originally composed for publication ; that it was undoubtedly thuv ^ natbor ' s intcntioti that they sh ^ l d ^ not Ijave been publishTed ; and thstt in a codicil to his will , after directing that a

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    tc still pleas e d to traise , y et not afraid to blame . ' * Pope

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/32/