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1 I ^ tt y 6 ft % e HqlySpirit . ' Liverpool , June 18 , 1812 . S * K , Iri your Repository for March last ( p . l' 4 > 9 ) a correspondent who
signs himself M . H . pats some questions relating to the Holy Spir it . He asks , " why did Jesus Christ never offer up a single petition to this equal in
Omnipotence , " &ic . ; and further remarks , ( hat "in that most striking and comprehensive form of words which he delivered to us does he
exclusively teach us to pray to the Father . " Now , it is difficult to say , whether „ yoer correspondent is really ignorant what reply Trinitarians would make to this , or
whether he supposes , that none of the ; few . who may happen to see tbe Repository , will think it worth while to answer it , therefore ex . pects to claim a victory as though it was unanswerable . I would
refer your reader to two excellent books on this subject , viz . Dr . Owen ' s and Mr * Hurrion ' s , and advise him to read therm ; but
lest he should think this doctrine has no advocates in the present day , I would make one or two observations . And first respect , ing the Lord ' s Prayer , which
appears to me only suited to the Jewish state of the church . Every one who' attentively considers the New Testament must observe , that our Lord acted as a Jew and aU
tended all the Jewish leasts , rites and ceremonies ; and that the true nature and design of his kingdom and gospel were not revealed to his disciples until after his as
dension > when the Holy Ghost came upon them : and , previous to this , prayer Was offered up through the medium of the daily sacrifices , utd not through him or in his
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name ; that prayer , therefore , aptpears not to be intended for the Christian , but the Jewish state : had it been designed to be used when Christianity was established , how came Mark and John not to
notice it in their Gospels ? as thereby . those early Christians , who had only those gospels , would want this important form of prayer . And if you refer to the 16 th char > ter of John , our Lord , ju ' '
biffore his sufferings tells his disciplegf , Hitherto ye have asked nothing ito , my name ; and that whatsoever they should ask the Father in his name , he ^ would give it them evidently showing that prayer was to be offered in a different manner
and through a different medrtrat after his ascension , to what it had been during the Jewish polity . I have also said , that the disci pies did not understand the nature of the gospel , or Christ ' s kingdom , ufttil after his ascension , for we find , even
after his resurrection , his disciples asked him , Acts i . 6 . < Wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel ? " This he tells them it was not for them to know ,
but that they should receive * powcr after the Holy Ghost was ctfme upon them * So that it dtie ? riot appear , that every thing * which our Lord and his disciples practised as Jews "is to be a rrtodel for
Christians . But fimher . M 6 wfcvei * M < -H . may think of the . Holy Spirit ^ he appears to have been a person of considerable importance during our ; LonPs stay on earth , who
declares blasphemy against him to be H < a « unpardonable sin : and he also appears to have been con * ^ ider ^ d a $ of high impdrtinee kfter our Lpr ^ s ascension . When ^ bur Lord , according to hi $ promise , sent him to carry on the gospel ,
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Dttty-qftie Holy Spirit * 485
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/27/
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