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c > E < dmd * Aug . 11 , 1809-. Petfuii ^ me , S £ r , to request ^ vlr ^ atteatiott ) to some remarks # oyotir late : letter to the Editor
¦ iofi the Monthly Repository ; ' premising , that the great question , between those who believe in Jesus , and those who reject him is to he decided , not by emptv sneers
but by solid arguments . Unitarian Christians , Sir , cannot sf ) eak disrespectfully of the venerable Lawgiver of the people of Israel . They acknowledge the wisdom , the c-
quity , the humanity , of his institutions : and among them have been found some of the mbst able defenders of his cftvine mission . You , Sir , however , must have noticed a prediction of this venerable man , contained in your own Scriptures , that the Lord would
raise tip unto his cduntiymen a Prophet from among their brethren , like unto him . And , in whatever respects some of the succeeding prophets may be thought to ha vie resembled Moses , yet it appears to us Christians , that no
prophet has « ver risen in Israel so nmeh like unto Moses , as Jesus of Nazareth , Do you appeal , in p ? o 6 f of the divine mission of Mo . s to the excellence of his
doctnaes i 6 r to the miracles which OW' - ^ trought by him ? or to the fulfillm ent of ( prophecies which he delivered ? We Christians conte&d , fliEtt we have precisely the sfctoe cadence ' of fti 6 divine
mission t ) f je $ tte $ to which we add t « i * farther circumstance , not to ** paralleled in th ^ histo ry of Mo . * es : ~ thatj after baying been put t 0 d mh by ^ hwe who would not r eceRre iftrij " ' ^ Was . raised from
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the dead , and appeared anipng the living ; as is manifest from the testimony of credible witnesses On the ground of this evidence , we acknowledge Jesus as a teach
er sent from God , And it ' appcars to us , from the records of his life , that he always considered Moses as a messenger from God , and that he appealed to the writings of Moses , as establishing his own
claim to that character . As to the question , whether the ceremonial laws of Moses are abrogated by the Christian dispensation , it appears to us , that the observance
of them ViTrs not enjoined upon ad ^ Gentile , even after he became a Christian , ( excepting in a few instances , in which a conformity to some of them was recommended
to the early Christian converts , that they might not give offence to their Jewish brethren ;) that it was enjoined on your own people only to prevent their adopting the idolatrous practices of the surrounding nations ; and that ( in
regard to your own countrymen ) it has not been formally abolished , but rather , been rendered impracticable , by your removal from Canaan , and by the destruction of the temple ; but that it may be set aside even in regard to tkemf
ifon your expected" return to your own country , it should be found no longer necessary . That the reli gion of Jesus js a spiritual religion , we argue from rhe very cir ^ ,
cumstance which has drawn your censure upon it ; narn ^ l y ^ the vague and _ indeterminate manner in which r its ritual precepts bav % been given ; which , shews , we think , thnt in the estimation of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 611, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/25/
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