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serting that each of the divine persons wills and does the same things ; but could he suppose his bare as . sertion was to supply the place of all proof ? This communication being sufficiently long , I shall reserve the
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
SIR , Your readers cannot be surprised , that in the only work open
to free religious inguiry , the doctrines of rational Christianity are attacked both openly and covertly ; that a Churchman i Chariclo ^ and now a man who calls himself a
Jewr are desirous of throwing their darts at the doctrines and institutions of the Gospel . I much suspect ^ that ^ this Jew is of the same tribe with the two persons
above mentioned ; but however that may be , I will , with your leave , make a short remark or two upon his curious letter . He says that * 4 c as forms and ceremonies
are necessary to religion , the only question is , whether Jesus or Moses , as an institutor of divine ordinances , is to be preferred /' Now this does not rest the question at all upon fair grounds . It by no means follows , because forms »« d ceremonies were
necessary in the Mosaic dispensation , that they should be so in the Christian . The very nature and spirit of the two dispensations are essentially different ; but Mr . Phillips places the New Testament upon
the same ground with the Old , the teachers of Christianity with Aaron and tfae Levites , baptism and the Lord ' s supper with circumcision and the passover , the } aw& of a state , with the rules of
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remainder of my rep ^ ly to the J « constant Reader ' s defence of th $ Trinity , for another lettter . I remain , Your ' s , &c . A Constant Reader .
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an assembly met together only for the purpose of worshipping God . ^ The following extract from one of Robert Robinson ' s admira . ble Sermons , will mark a few of the materal points of dissimilarity between Judaism and
Christianity : " The Jewisji ( Jhurch was national , all the females were members of it by birth , and all the males were admitted members at eight days old by circumcision : but the Christian Church consists
only of believers , and no person can properly be admitted a mem * ber of it , but by a profession of faith and repentance ; and every person making such profession , hath right from the Lord , of the Church to all the benefits of his
community . - The Jewish church was confined to the little country of Judea , but the Christian church . is of all countries , and in Jesus Christ , . ' whether we be Jews or
Gentiles , bond or free , we are all baptized by one Spirit into one body / The men who officiated in the Jewish worship were a distinct order , of one family , and on account of their attendance
upon the worship of God , were supported by a tax on the people ; their persons were held sacred , and their presence necessary for every act of worship : but the worship of Christians consists only of prayer and raise , and any
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tflS Reply to An Argument against Christianity ; ' *
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REPI . Y TO " AN ARGUMENT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/32/
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