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threw it into the water , which sup-Dlied the camp ? All this seems absol utely inexplicable , if we exclude that awful authority which he deflfecl from above ; but if we admit it , ail follows in a natural course . Or , how Vrill the objector account for the solem n , pathetic , repeated appeals to
the people ' s experience and perfect remembrance of tho&e miraculous events ,, intermixed with upbraiding wil provoking reflections on their insensibility and stubbornness of temper , expressed with a native dignity and force of language equal if not superior to the most animated strokes of Raman or Grecian eloquence ? In
these we find an appeal to their consciousness of a continued miracle , not so much as mentioned in the historical part , viz . that neither their clothing nor their shoes or sandals were gone to decay in forty years . . Deut , xxix . 5 . The A ddress of Joshua , after his
recapitulating the capital facts , seems to merit a particular recital , Joshua xxiv . 14 , to the end of the 24 th- verse , " And now therefore fear the Lord , and serve hftn in sincerity and in truth , and put away the gods which \ oor fafcliers served on the other side
of the flood , and in Kgypt : and serve ye the Lord . Arid if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , choose you this day whom you will serve , whether the gods which your fathers served , that were on the other side of
fte flood , or the gods of the A morites , in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord . And the people answered and said , God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods . for the Lord our God , he it is that % ^ ^» ^^ ^*» - ^ ^ Vk ^ F ^* ^*^ ^^ " ^ V —* " ^ ^ v ^ ^ l ^ T ** ^ S * ^ K J ^ J ^ m S ^ m * ¦
fought us * up , and our fathers , out ° » the land of Egypt , from the house ° f bondage , and which did those great ^ gnsin our sight , and preserved us 111 all the way wherein we went , and ^ ong al ] the people through whom vz passed . And the Lord drove out rom before us all the people , even fte Amorites which dwelt in the 1 I . -- •• '" ^ u vy MAI «_ JJI UWCll All * sM . * KJ
tw ¥ therefore will we also serve lt ^ e Urd for jhe is our God . And ^ hua sai d u nto the people , Ye canvlT r l ^ Lord ; for h * « ho'y m f * a J ealous God ; he will \ nn » l £ lve" ^ transgressions , nor ^ si ng . W ye forsake the Lord , ty ^ " ^ stran ge gods , then he will awl do you hurt , and consume
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you , after that he hath done you good . Arid the people said unto Joshua , Nay , but we will serve the Lord . Atid Joslnaa said unto the people , Ye are witnesses against yourselves , that ye have chosen you the
Lord , to serve him . And they said , We are witnesses . Now therefore put away ( said lie ) the strange gods which are among you , and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel . And the people said unfo Joshua , The Lord ' our God will we
serve , and his voice will we obey . ' * Will the unbeliever fly to the subterfuge of supposing that these nddresses were the forgeries of after ages ? Till some face of probability be put upon that supposition , to use it for an evasion seems not very consistent with an ingenuous mind .
It is the office of an impartial writer to give all the weight he is able to the arguments on both sides . It is the business and duty of the reader to hold the balance with a steady hand , and to decide with an
impartial eye which scale preponderates . Probably the balance may seem like that in Milton , where one side quick flew up and kicked the beam * Or the author may be accused of partiality on both sides , wliich would be no
weak argument , in proof of his perfect integrity , in offering ^ this summary or abstract of all that hath been or may be written by ingenious authors on each , side .
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Dr . Parr on the first Crusade against Frante * 277
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Dr . Parr on the first Crusade against Franc * . f ^ HERE is some resemblance be ~ JL tween the crusade now projected against Prance , and that which was attempted in vain in the year 1793 ; and the spirited and eloquent language
of Dr . Parr against the one may perhaps be applied to the other : we therefore copy the following passage from a pamphlet , ( pp . 7 % 73 ) published in 1792 , entitled , A Sequel to the planted Paper , fyc . to the Preface of which ( p . x . ) the subscription is S . Parr .
" After all the intrigues of politics , all the devastations of war , and all the barbarous excesses of despotism which disgrace the annals of mankind , the black and lowering storm which threatens soon to overspread thie face of all Europe , and to overwhelm in one common ruin every loose rem-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/13/
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