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Indeed , if the chief study of the political advocates of the Church had been to make the people think religion all a cheat , they could not have taken better means . None but a divine
religion could have stood in spite of such villanous supporters . * But were it possible , by means of persecution and the stifling of knowledge , to preserve the appearance of a more universal acquiescence in the doctrines of religion , of how little real value would this be ! The real value
of religion must depend on its being the subject of individual choice ana belief ; and the free examination , which is the very means of giving it every valuable quality , necessarily
supposes a certain proportion of doubt and unbelief ; -f which , moreover , where freedom of inquiry is allowed , is mainly instrumental in discriminating truth from falsehoodand in strensthtrutli from falsehoodand in
strength-, , ening the evidence of the truth . Thus we have to take our choice between implicit faith or nominal belief—and a well-founded and rational belief in the majority with a certain proportion of scepticism , and that not without its uses , in the remainder .
The continuance of these persecutions is also enlisting the best feelings of the people against Christianity . Men of spirit naturally dislike and reject that which is forced upon them : and are induced to applaud and sympathize with those who suffer ; the best part of whose character is certainly exhibited while under
persecution . On all these grounds , and many more which might be mentioned , J it has become the duty of all friends of liberty , and especially of Christianity , firmly , but with due prudence and
? Boccaccio , Giorn . I . Nov . 2 . -f- Christianity does not seem to have been intended in the scheme of Providence for immediate universal reception . This would not be consistent with its very nature , as designed to produce its
effect by operating gradually , and by natural process of conviction , both in individuals and in society , —as leaven in the mass . Christians so represent it when Its want of universality is objected to them by unbelievers .
X I say nothing of the argument from the total inefflcacy of thetfe prosecutions , lest I should seem to admit their justice .
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discrimination stating their reasons , to make their public protest against these renewals of persecution . R . T .
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072 An Essay on the Nature and Design of Sncrtftcei under the Mosaic Law .
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An Essay on the Nature and Design of Sacrifices under the Mosaic Law , and the Influence which Jewish Ideas and Language concerning them had upon the Language of the New Testament . By the late Rev Henry Turner .
( Continued from p . 338 . ) WE think that having now sufficiently shewn that sacrifices under the Mosaic law cannot be proved ( from any indications contained in the original records , describing their institution and attending ceremonies )
to have had a vicarious import , and in all likelihood had none such , what remains for us to do , is first to make a few general observations on what may be conceived to be the real nature and design of the institution of sacrifices under the Mosaic law :
secondly , to inquire whether there is any antecedent plausibility in the supposition that they were intended to have a prospective reference to distant events , or , in other words , that they were typical of Christ - y and , lastly , to account for the language of the New Testament respecting them .
In the first place , then , we propose to make a few general observations upon what may be conceived to be the real nature and design of the institution of sacrifices under the Mosaic law . This we undertake , the rather ,
because the supposed absence of any inherent meaning or propriety in it , such as can be conceived worthy of the Divine Being who appointed it , has been used as an argument for imposing a foreign and ulterior sense , which
does not appear warranted by the original record , in which we should certainly expect to have the surest declaration of its true meaning . How irrational it is thus to argue , we have seen alread \ r .
Now it is obvious that the great purpose of the institution of sacrifice was to afford a method of visible and public worship , and that its various modifications , under the Mosaic law , included every different attitude and intention of mind with which men ever
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1823, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1786/page/4/
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