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Christian who is able may be a mouth for the rest ; and as for public instruction , any person who can may give it , provided he have the consent of his brethren :
for they who officiate in the Christian church , are not a sacred order , nor a separate family , but Christians may elect whom thoy please , jto preside in their assemblies , to instruct , and to administer ordinances , and all under
the great law , Freely ye have received , freely give / The relig ion of the Jews was splendid and costly , tha . t of the Christians plain and simple . Nothing but prayer is necessary to prayer , and ' where there are , 4 fwo or three gathered together in the name of Christ , '"there is he in the midst of them .
From all this , is it not most evident , that the ordinances of Christianity must be very different from the ceremonies of Judaism ? It was necessary , where a continual round of costly . rites was to be practised , of particular days to be observed , that the directions should be
detailed with the-minutest accuracy and precision . The Jews were a peculiar people , set apart from all the rest of the world : there was a complete wall of separation between them and the Gentile
nations ; their customs , laws , practices , an 4 ceremonies , were singular and unique . These very circumstances were of themselves
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To the Editor of the ]\ Ionthl y Repository .
Hackney , Nov . 9 , 1809 . sin , ^'• ' 1 bog leaA ' e to correct an erro - neous statement in a matter of tottj in irxy fir *} I . etUr of anjmad -
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sufficjent to render necessary the most minute detail , the most accurate explanation from their legislator ; bul the c easy yoke * and the ' light burden * of Christ
rendered these entirely unnecessary among his followers . One of Mr . Phillips ' s charges against our Saviour , is , c that his institutions were made regardless of time , place , and inaancr / This , in
my humble opinion , is one proof of ( heir excellence ,. His preaching was subject to none of the restraints of peculiar days , places , or postures . He used all places
indifferently , as they suited his purpose . Whenever an opportunity offered , that was the time he chose to convey instruction to the people , and convenience for the time was consecration of the
place * ' But that ' his commands were given with that mysterious ambiguity , which is calculated to mislead , ' I do deny ; and I believe , that Mr . Phillips will not find it very easy , notwithstanding his laboured attempt to involve the words of Paul in
obscurity , notwithstanding the l ^ ard and , to me , unintelligible words which he has coined for the purpose , to make ihe words of Christ , " Do this in remembrance of . me , " either ambiguous , mystcriotis , or calculated to mislead .
1 am , Sir , Truly your ' s , FAIR PLAY .
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version upon the Quarterly Review , published in the Repository for July , p . 380 . It is theremen- ' tioned , upon what I then believed to be Sufficient authority , that the
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Editions ' of Griesbach , 619
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EDITIONS OF CRIE 5 BACII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/33/
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