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410 Jews' Embassy to Cromwell .
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those " confessors of the Christian name , * ' whom the Apologist commissions for defensive war . They are such , according to Barclay , as have XMot attained to " the denial of self , and entire confidence in God . 11 They are ** not in the patient suffering spirit , " but " are far from the perfec-. tion of the Christian religion , " and ** hav ^ nnt r . ome to the nure
disnensation of the gospel / 1 What then is the amount of the arguments derived from Friend R o bert , but this , that professing Christians will continue soldiers till they have imbibed the true spirit of their religion , and no lonsrer ?
I . am surprised that the American Citizen [ p . 150 ] can derive any anthprity for the Lawfulness of Defensive War among Christians , from a recollection of the bloody and merciless deeds perpetrated by the Israelites , as executioners of the Divine vengeance , or as he expresses it , under " the sanction of the oracle of God himself . " -As little to the purpose of his argument is the conduct of our Lord and of his Apostle Peter towards Rojuan centurions , or John Baptist ' s cony ^ rs ^ tion with the common sold iery . These , if they proved any thing , vvould prove too much ; for in what defensive war would centurioes or soldiers have been engaged under Tiberius ,
t > ut in the defence of the imperial tyranny over their fellow-citizens ; or against a provoked rebellion in some oppressed and plundered province > As to " Christian soldiers in the army of Marcus Antoninus / ' I thought the learned Mr . Mov ie * in
" The Miracle of the Thundering Legion examined / ' ( Works , II . 79—S 9 O 9 TheoU JRepos . 1 . 75 , ) had been Ipng considered as having disproved the assertion u that there were then any Christian spldiers , " ( p . 163 , ) or , at least , as having , shewn " that either there were none in the army , or else that they were guilty of gross idolatry ; aud consequently their prayers wtt 0 not likely to work wonders /'
Paul ' s allusion to the military character , which is adduced ( p . 151 , col . &p ) will no more sanction a military profession among Christians , th ^ n his proposing to them the example of those who contended for a corruptible crown *) could sanction the rancorous emulation , severities and shameless in-
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decorum which were too often at tendants oil the celebrated exploits in the games of antiquity . As to JEfe * brews , chap , xi ., sp far from that passage being * sufficient to decide the whole controversy , " it has , I apprehend , no reference to the subject The heroes of the Old Testament professed to act under aft immediate divine direction , designed by the expression through faith . How then can they become examples to Christians who have no directions but the precepts and example of their Master and the spirit of his religion ? A
Christian so directed , will , I suspect , spend his whole life in the search before lie can discover , with the American Citizen , p , 152 , " a just and absolutely necessary war , " one from the tuitiult and carnage of which he could venture immediately to appear before the Judge of the whole earth , the Father of all , should he lose his own life in the attempt to take the life of a brother , who had become an enemy ; for such after all is this plausible defensive war , when seriously , contemplated by a consistent Christian * J . T . RUTT .
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Sir , July 1 , 1819 / HAI ) lately occasion to look into ICollins on Literal Prophecy , when I remarked an anecdote quite new to me . He says , ( p . 81 , ) "The Jews are so little agreed in their character of a Messias , that they sent out of Oliver
Asia a solemn emoassy co Cromwell , whose fame was spread throughout the world , asUiinking he might perhaps be the redeemer of Israel /* For this story the author refers to Acta Eruditorum . Can any of your readers give an account of this transaction , of which I can find nothing in any lives of Crofnwell to which 1 have access ? A . B-^—
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Chicliester , SiRi May 6 , 1 S 19-YOU have permitted several of your Correspondents to record their high sense of the excellence of ih , e late Sir Samuel Romilly , by inserting in the Repository , extracts from the sermons they were induced to deliver on the melancholy occasion of his death , I fully eftter into aM the observations in praia ^ of tlmdis-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/10/
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