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as bathers , or cpmp&nions of their families , w ' ho are seeking health from the sea breeze y and by communicating this , either through newspapers or to same permanent body , for , 1
suppose , such a body is or will be formed , a mass of evidence might be obtained that would be of national benefit . It is from little beginnings the greatest events often follow . Having been busily engaged in promoting the discussion on the Slave Trade ,
when the business was first brought forward / and having lived to see every remains of it viewed with abhorrence by my feJiqw-couiitryniei ) , I hope the same success will attend the measures now adopted for lessening the violation of our Redeemer ' s command , "swear not . " This is a cause in
which there appears to me to be no contending or opposing interest , and seems only to require proper exertion to call forth the publib to have the evil speedily removed . Since I read
your Correspondent ' s Letter , I have conversed with two persons of high rank , one from his office , the other from his birth , and both seemed convinced that the administration would
render every assistance to facilitate the measure , if pursued in a becoming manner . If you think these observations worthy of your notice , you will receive them as the good wishes , instead of the active efforts of SENEX .
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Mr . Manning on John Baptist ' s Message to Jesu * . 07 , 1
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them believed on them , others doubted , and others pursued him with implacable malice , emd sought to take away his life . His own disciples but ill understood the end of his manifestation and the design of his kingdom . And John , who had been his
harbinger , appears to have adopted the prejudices of the Jews . I am fully aware that the generality of interpreters , indeed i know of none but Justin Martyr and Tertullian of a different opinion , have supposed that , notwithstanding the message which he sent
by his discipJes to Christ , he never entertained any doubt of his being the Messiah . Nevertheless , if I mav venture to differ from so great and numerous authorities as concur in supporting this opinion , I cannot help apprehending that John was in some tfieasure infected with the universal
prepossession of the Jewish nation , that the Messiah would assume great outward splendor and magnificence ; and perceiving himself , who was his messenger and forerunner , confined in a prison , and forcibly restrained from
publishing his message ; and hearing that Christ wrought a variety of miracles wherever lie went , and that he sent out his disciples to do the same , he impatiently presumed that if Christ were really the Messiah , he would work some miracle in order to release
him . Not finding , after a considerable lapse of lime , that any thing of this sort was attempted in his favour , he grew uneasy , and began to suspect whether Christ might not be only some great prophet who was likewise to introduce the Messiah . And this
appears to be a supposition no way inconsistent with a due regard to JohnV prophetic character , which is very safe , notwithstanding we allow him to have been subject to the common frailties of human nature ; and that severe * afflictions might have begun to dishearten him .
Jolin had never named Christ expressly as the Messiah , but only had declared , that one who was coming after him was to be ** preferred before
him , whose shoe-latchet he was unworthy to unloose . " John ' s doubting whether he was right in supposing Christ to be the Messiah , though it was an evidence of his Weakness and instability , yet , at the same time , is a
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Exeter , Sir , October 7 , 181 J > . YOUR Correspondent Brevis , in his Brief Notes on Scripture , in your last Repository , [ p . 544 , ] makes
some very just observations on prolixity $ and that I may not incur the censure of so candid a writer , I proceed immediately , and as briefly as possible , to state my views of the subject of John the Baptist's message to our Saviour .
When our Lord entered on his ministry there were clear and illustrious signatures of divinity stamped on his mission , yet there were other circumstances also which gare a colour ,
through the ignorance of some and theperversenessof others , to represent mm ^ s an impostor . The Jews were , therefore , variously affected by his teaching and miracles . Some among
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/19/
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