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    any tjiing like / absolute certainty is ^ unattainable . Yet I suspect , ; that the thought isJDr . Prices * an 4 that most of the circumstances of the itpagery fir < $ [ supplied 4 by Mr . Worthington . Jfcly readers will , perhaps , be of the

    same opinion , when they have perused the sentences that I shall next quote , and that are taken from Price ' s Pasthumous Discourses , p . 76 . That venerable man , having recommended , as , " the best remedy for narrowness , "

    ( subsequently tQ a correct judgment and a , candid hea ^) "a free and open Intercourse with : persons of different sentiments / ' observes , ** We are likje children wearing different garbs in the middle of a mist . We keep at a distance from one another , and therefore appear to one another like monsters . Did we come

    Dearer to one another , and associate more , our silly prejudices would abate , and we should love one another better /' But I return to Mr . Worthington—Ser . II . 17 , &c . [ John vii . 45 ] :

    ** These words ( never man spake like this man ) were spoken by the officers or soldiers sent by tjhe chief priests and Pharisees to apprehend Christ . "—And the preacher , assuming that they might have been either * ojficers , " jn our present acceptation of the term , [ i . e . persons invested with

    some military command , J or " com mon soldiers , " draws from his as sumptions certain lively , though un warrantable , inferences .

    , The noun , in the original , is vitygi-Tai . Now the scriptural , if not the classical , sense of it , has no relation to soldiers or to military officers . The mejn employed , on this occasion , " to apprehend Christ , " were the high priest ' s servants . la a n , o ( , e below * ¦ I will refer to some authorities

    for this interpretation . Ibid . p . 22 . "Dr . Ha ^ vvoqd has remarked , that two of the best of them ; [ our Lord ' s parables ] , namel y ^ the rich man and JLassnrus and the pv < HHff <* l &on 9 were spoken extempore , at the moment . "

    > Besides the Concordances of Tromra . andi pf ScBniid ., and the Lexicon of Schleusner , the Syriac , Vqlgj , Germant [ JLuthtfrJ v Italian , [ DtodatQ aad Er-Gq » 3 v . translations are decisive .

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    I r do not , coajjrovert the remark which Dr . JdL ha ^ s ixia 4 e , and which Mr . WV has ' adofit f S . " ' What I am desirous o ^ noticiiig ^ is the fac t , that most , if I must not add all , of the parables of Jesus Christ were of this description , were suggested by the scenes and circumstances of his ministry , and do not seem to have been the effects of what we call study and preparation .

    Ibid . p . 26 . " You deny the resurrection , and the existence both of angel and spirit ; but has not the Almighty declared himself the God of Abraham , and the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob ? Is he then the God of the dead ? No ; though their bodies have long since mouldered in the tomb , their souls remain a sacred

    deposit in his hand , till that great day when they shall rise to everlasting life . " This is Mr . W . ' s comment on our Saviour's reasoning in Matt . xxii . 29 —33 ; Mark xii . 24—28 ; Luke xx . 34—39 . Accordin g to the Evangelists . 34—39 . According to the Evangelists

    , Jesus Christ says not a single word concerning the bodies and the souls of the departed patriarchs . His only design is to shew , " that the dead are raised . " This truth he establishes on principles admitted by the Sadducees themselves . The clause , " he is not

    a God of the dead , but of the living , " has its explanation in what immediately follows , " for ail / ' ( i . e . they all , meaning Abraham , Isaac and

    Jacob ) , ** live unto him : " the Supreme Being calleth the things which are not , as though they were . Efad our Lord ' s argument been that of Mr . W ., his language would Jtmve been tl * e same with Mr . . W . ' s . I do not enter ,

    at present , into the controversy respecting the state of men between ( leath and the resurrection : upon this subject Christ is sjlent . Let me , however , take occasion to observe , that the sense of the Scriptwes jnust be ascertained by the study of them , and not by our prevapijsty-fojCined hypotheses .

    Ibid . pp . 29 , 30 K * ' I am &o * rv that any celebrated characters , latel y deceased , shoul d have dfceried prudence I am grieved that any author or minister sjiould think lightly of it . " The preacher alludes , 1 concjeive , % f ^^ ' ^^ i lff ^^ W ^ not quite have agreed mfh . Jifr * in >

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1785/page/8/