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remark , what I de- / &c . cotttainsa reference to a future state . Jesus , in verses 12- —18 , explains the meaning both of this language , and of his symbolical action , in washing- the disciples' feet . * When once we have ascertained , from the context , and by
other means , the just import of ^ passage of Scripture , no different interpretation of it is admissible ; nor must we look for what is general and refined in observations that the speaker , or the writer , plainly limits to the occasion by which ttrey were suggested .
Ser . XII . pp . 172 , 173 . In the warmth of his zeal for social worship , a zeal which , if it be enlightened , I npplaud , Mr . W . does not distinguish between the Lord ' s day of the Christian and the sabbatical institution of the Jews . If my readers will turn to a concordance , they will perceive , that the distinction is real and important .
In some instances thi 3 preacher scatters his -censures with little judgment and discrimination . Of thrs character is the next extract . Ser . XIII . p . 183 . " Cold and frigid is that philosophy which denies the agency of celestial spirits on earth . "
l These tautological epithets can have no just application to any thing which merits the name of philosophy \ That alone is genuine and sound philosophy , which exercises belief on evidence , and
in the degree of the evidence afforded . * The agency of celestial spirits on earth / is a subject which I shall not now discuss . I transcribe a single observation from one of the hi g hly valuable works of the late Mr .
Farmer : f " The best tirgurnenfcs , " says he , " reason can employ to prove the existence of creatures of a superior order to man , do much more strongly prove , that they can act only within a certain limited sphere . " Ibid . p . 184 . It conies in the
preacher ' s way to treat of the proper interpretation and reading of Acts i . 26 ; " That he might go upto his own place . " Gries ^ ach sanctions here the received text . Mr . W . refers to the
Monthly Repository , IV . 44 D—443 . t Dissertation ou Miracles , Sec . p . 54 ( 8 vo . )
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Alexandrian [ Alexandrinej cctoy of the New Testament , and confesses , that the question is in his own jnind " undecided . " * Ser . XVI . p . 224 . Another example of Biblical criticism , arrests our
attention . Mr . W . seems to admit the genuineness of Aeta viii . 37 ; though from Gri&sfoach ' s text , it is very properly excluded . Thus we lose the simple confession of the treasurer of the queen of-Ethiopia . " I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God . "
However , the verse , as it stands in our Bibles , and considered as an interpolation , will at least sliow , that even in an age subsequent % o the apostolic , a very short , intelligible and general confession was deemed sufficient for those who received baptism .
Ser . XIX . p . 278 . " Let us foT a moment snppose our Saviour to have been a mere man—" Such language is always incorrect , and may sometimes he employed with an insidious design : scarcely shall we
hear it from any well-informed and reflecting believer in Revelation . The rank of Jeseis in the scale of being , is one thing ; his endowments and office ( both of them special and characteristic ) , are another . Let us adhere closely to Peter ' s doctrine and style in Acts ii . 22 , 36 .
Ser . XX . p . 287- " He has made atonemenUfor tire whole world . " I look in vain throughout the sacred volume for such a declaration . Our Lord , beyond all doubt , is the channel through which vve receive , from God , ( Rom . v . 11 , ) the atonement , or rather the reconciliation . That Jesus made
atonement , is neither the phraseology nor the sense of scripture . \ Ser . XXIII . p . 324 . " Some whom I am addressing , hmy be acquainted with a tract on this subject £ the Historical Conveyance bf -Christianity ] by a late Dissenting Minister , who wrote it with the idea , tl * a t no one had ever discussed it before him ; in this ,
* The authority of a single , unconfirmed , tUoiigh important JMUS . is insufficieut . f Similar unscriptural language is vsed by Mr . W . in p . 549 * where he speaks of UShe " nu ^ rits" of Jesus , as the ground of God ' s acceptance of tBc sirtner . ? 1 "
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3 ^ Retharks on Mr . fForthingiohU Serifr&ns .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1785/page/10/
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