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Now ki the beginning of this chapter we ^ ead of Christ's ascrent to a nofoftntairi , and of his feeding on that npfowmtain five thousand persons with and and it clearl
a fe ^ v loaves fehes ; y appears that those whom h £ now adjtress ^ s , are the very same persons xtho had on the preceding day followed him up to the mountain , and were ftd by his iniraculous supply .
It seems , therefore , extremely natural to suppose , thai ; in the words , * wh ^ rS he tints before , " Jesus had an exclusive , and , to the part of his hearers , a welkonderstood reference tor the mountain on which he had wrought the miracle . By a natural association , his
allusion to the ^ moujitain would at once suggest the idea eft the miracle he had just wrought upon it . The sentence we * are naturally led to understand as implying that ,, . after having- seen him perform such a mighty and truly miraculous work for the supply of their t and the
wan confirmation of his mission , an 4 nevertheless remaining unconvinced of the truth of his pretensions and his doctrines , they wool ( f certainly remain so even though he should again ascend the mountain and perform on it the Same astonishing kind of miracle he had dohe before . J . S # H %
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SltL , IN the paper with which the Christian Reformer for the present year
is introduced , it is observed , that in the present day " high points of doctrine are only here and there asa ^ rted /* and that *' the majority of congregations calling themselves orttodoo ? lire contented with the name without tiie '
reaKty of uncifent brtkodofry ^ fa tkiS * representation which I have no doubt is just , I find , a& in many other things , an evil blended with a good . Tliat tto improved state of th ^ olo ^ ifeat knowledge should haVe l ^ d the : nohiinal followers of Calvin to moderate
their doetrine , so that tto hurtfan Heart g ^ ould not ahrink from ft Wittl lioirdr , ( in . u ^ hich cfas ^ -, however , it U Owlvii ^ fsto Mio ldnger ^) in its t ftffojti tmti $ f&ctioti $ o «\ eiy sincere ( JhristiAtt , tfte " * rw $ < Mvin&t eldQe e ^ cept « d Titt ^ ^ tate of ttjhla ^ * in ^ g ^ fely be regarded as an omen of stlH b ^ ft ^ r
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days , and portends # u * import an b change of opinion which vvill be experienced at nor vety dist ^ at period . Not mil any one who is acqtsauited with human nature be suirp ^ ised that the progress of religious inquiry
should , in a certain stage of it , exhibit : the ph ^ ioihekio ii abo ve described . Though here and there an individual has possessed mental energy enough to pass at opce from Calvinism to the simple doctrine of the Unitarian , this
is too muck to expect from the public mind , which always moves slowly , and' is obstinately tenacious of ancient prejudices . But , as I intimated above , the good of which I have been
speaking is not unnaixfed with evil . That an uuscriptural system , vrhich , if presented in its real colours , could not notv mairitaiii its ground , should be so -softened-and palJiated as to be admitted under a certain niodiiication ,
when otherwise it would repel belief , is a ciixumgtaaee whicii is calculated to prolong tl \ e dominion of error , and consequently to retird the progress of truth . Asa fixe m&cMef is the greater because the system ( if a system it can
be called ) Which £ sr sometimes substituted ior the genuine doctrine of Galvia , assutoes na frxed and definite ctmr&tti&t * A cried which is distinctly laid down , and so far ci ^ wly understood , submits itself to examination .
so that its truth or falsehood may by impartial inquiry be easily ascertained . But a doctrine ( or rather a phraseology ) which wears an aihbi ^ uous and inyetermiioate forin , and , availing itself of popular prejttdfeefei addresses itself
ta the ear rather than to the ] inder standing , eludes instead of inviting inquiiy , and retains possession of the feeling , \ vMl € it makes no distinct itnJ >^^ BiOrt 6 nr the mind When the ptetLcUet tellg his heai ^ rs , in iso many W 6 b&h il&& * h »^ Wodd'df Ghriist has
saved fiig elect fiftom the vindictive jtts $ & ? of tM Fftthftr trlie thoughtful miiia May start at the tl ^ claratiou , and uia ^ r *^ fll ^^ dsM € 0 ast in What part < rf * tM fiacred y < dutne t |^ -doctrine is to W ft > mut Biit Wjien , instead of bfei |^ tfu $ exploit , t % 6 oitetor contents hiai ^ iF < -mw- # &i &f . tozxmgms on t ^ litof •* & $ & of ttdvmpfm xi w ^ - oM ^ hmmfoWft it % every in an k mfWmmi ^ i f titokxM&m •«»» mkMimi ' & Ms preconceived opimnA $ m hs fcw hearers ^ W t * P ~
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/28/
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