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Pistflliter ^ t believe , have ever m # < te a practice of celebrating thfe ordinance in privat * houses ; though ^ for my own part , if any professing Christian , who has been in the habit of attending upon it
in public , is confined to his own house by long sickness or infirmity , I see no sufficient reason why such person should not join with some Christian friend in partak - ing of it at home . In regard to
the expressions used by Paul , when reproving the Corinthians for the irreverent manner in which they attended it , nothing more need he replied , than that they were the re&ujt of the . occasion
that led to them , and are hardly applicable to a time when such customs as the Apostle censures , Ao not prevail And now , Sir ,
permit me to intreat , that you will again take the New Testament in your hands ; with a disposition ^ not to cavil at it , but to observe the real character and conduct of
that Jesus , who is the great subject of i 4 . Be in treated , to read it attentively , and to take notice of his doctrines and precepts , whether they were not every way wor * thy of God ; of his life , whether
it was pot a pattern of excellence ; of his miracle * , whether they were net most beneficial , and sufficiently welUattested ; of his prqp&eeies ^ particularly that of the destruction of Jerusalem and the
tfeiftple , ( as the punishment of your ancestors for rejecting and fcitKtifyfeghim , ) whether they have not b £ eri signally accomplished ; tif thfe proof exhibited that he was
•*« W 8 jd > ( r&m- the dead after his v fo * tfc * ifi # io *» , ¦ i vbetft # r ' it is notsuf-; # tfi * tft ? ^ satisfy « v « ry impartial 'uj to * J * &ire ^ flJnd of the hi story and ^ tftiftgfc 0 i 4 tf s A $ kosttes , whether
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ihete 4 o net plairrty 4 \ &m ti ^« & lib have been uprigh t md piou ^ men , and woll * itifdnned as To the facts , which they atte $ fc > and sealed with tfeeir blood . And be pleased to remember , l> , in order to the acknowledgment of Jesus as the
Messiah foretold by your- » own Scriptures , it is not necessary to degrade or vilify Moses ^; aifice Josus himself boie testimonyto that illustrious man of God ; and since the religion of Jesu 9 is faundfcd upon that of Moses , and indeed is no more than the continuance
and perfection of that series of divine revelations which began with your renowned tegislatorl I caranofr conclude ^ Sir ^ with - out expressipg-my sincere regtet , on account of the unjust afcd cruel treatment , ( alluded to i& y&tir
letter , ) wfrich your eaunttfyttten have , on many occasions , received , from person ^ who c&lfe d themselves Christiatts , yet ^ 4 fad nothing of the Christian about them but the name . Letf rite as * 1 > ure you , that many , as welt as
myself , look forward \ frith eager expectation to the time , when those that remain of you ^ shall be re-established 1 * 1 the land Of Ca . * naan , ( according to th £ assurances of your own prophets *) the twelve tribes united under the govern
ment of a prince of the house of David ; and all of you- ( I ^ fifist ) converted to the faith of ^ s « s ,-and living on terms € > f eoi ^ irf friiefiidship with Christian nation ^ ^ 1 &ea reformed from ^ their eo rW ^ ti ^ n s ^ and brought beck to the pnte ? doc ~ trine and benevolent fcpirit of their
great Lord and Mfest ^ en *" Be pleased to accept of ? c * Very good , wish fbr yout whole nation , from v-. . . ; ANtU ^ i-tfARiAtf € fmr ^ rriv » -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 613, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/27/
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