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such person , as this day we believe him to be . " —{ Brief Hist . 1687 , pp . 161 , IC 2 . 4 to . 1691 , 45 . ) Can atty of your readers name the author of Fiat Lux 9 In . Cat . Williams , p . 23 S , I observe , " Animadversions on Fiat Lux . Oxford , 1663 . " OTIOSUS .
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celebrated characters , and the moat admired for piety , charity and learn * ing . Did not the author of the " Appeal , ' * &c . know that controversies concerning the miraculous conception , the genuineness of the Introductions to Matthew and Luke ,
concerning the doctrine of an intermediate state , the existence of angels and devils , and the case of demoniacs , existed long before the Improved Version was published , and that men of great learning and high character have taken different sides of these
interesting questions , and have defended their respective opinions with a calmness , dignity and gravity which became the subject ? Did he not know that the Editors in these cases have done nothing more than exhibit the versions or comments of their
eminently learned and distinguished ' predecessors , to whose authority they have commonly appealed , and whose words they have often cited ? What occasion then was there for treating the Editors with such contumelious
language and outrageous abuse , as I who have been pretty conversant with theological controversy never recollect to have witnessed before ? But let me ask , have the Editors given any just provocation for such rude and uncourieous treatment ? Have they
given any example of it ? Have they from the beginning to the end of their work suffered a single invective to escape them , either against the opinions or the ^ persons of those from whom they differ most -widely and essentially ? Have they in any one
instance done any thing more than simply state their judgment and assign their reasons ? And is it for this that they are to be branded with an accumulation of coarse and vulgar epithets , which if they had even btfen deserved , no man who has the feelings
of a gentleman and a Christian would permit himself to use ? Can the reverend appellant think that he consults , his own character , or the credit of his cause , by such intemperate
language ? He tells us , p . 93 , that " he believes there are Unitarians who are ashamed of the Improved Version / 1 There may be such : heaven bless them ! But can the author believe that he has a friend in the world , whose opinion is worth regarding .
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534 Interpretation of Matt . thlv .
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^ m Sir , MR . COG AN expresses a doubt , [ p . 369 , ] whether the conclusion of the twenty-fifth chapter of
Matthew relate to a future life . In Cappe ' s Life of Christ , Sect . Ixi . Ixii . and in Mr . Capped Dissertation on « the Kingdom of Heaven , " there are given , what seem to me very satisfactory reasons , for believing that the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth chapters of Matthew relate only to one event , namely , the destruction of Jerusalem . The Lord ' s reckoning doing goad to his servants the same as doing
it to himself , probably refers to assisting them , because they were the disciples of Christ , and notwithstanding the danger which in a time of persecution would attend owning any connexion with them . If some of the
expressions be thought too strong to refer to this event , is not the language used in xxiv . 29—31 , equally strong ? Yet it is taid in the 34 th verse , " this generation shall not pass away , till all these things are fulfilled T . . " C . H .
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On the Rev . Samuel Newton ' * Objections to the Improved Version . Loetteb . III . Silt , 6 . TTT is the custom of the author of JL the u Trinitarian ' s Appeal Defended / 1 who has undertaken to
demolish the credit of the Improved Version , whether from artifice or ignorance he best can tell , to represent certain doctrines and interpretations of Scripture as quite new and peculiar to the Improved Version , and then without any critical examination to denounce his anathemas
upon them , and to lavish the most unqualified abuse , and the bitterest invectives against the Editors , without seeming to be aware , and perhaps indeed without knowing it , that he is spitting his venom at some of the most
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/10/
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