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S ' lRy IN your Number for this month , ¦* LPage 406 , ] J < abser * e Av&h pjea-* u" e , that you Jhwe agak * brought , ore the notice of your reader * , the r <* pectahle society of Quakers , by
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publishing their YfVJy JSputtle . But , Sir , when I compare it with various communications which have appeared in the Monthly Repository , respecting the dactriqe * of that people , I am surprised at the difference between the statements of some of your correspondents , and what now seems to . be the avo \ yed creed of the Quakers . I thought it had been hinted by aoqae ,
whose acquaintance with the Friends could not be doubted , that their real tenets were those of Uiritarianism , that many had actually confessed it , and that we were likely ere long to see them advancing in a body as the advocates of " rational religion . " With such statements , how am I to
reconcile the contradiction apparent in the Yearly Epistle ? ( which you have no doubt correctly copied ) * Here they come forward , publicly ac- > knowledging their belief in the Divinity of the blessed Saviour , " who
before the world was , ^ ondeseended , in order to effect our redemption , to come down from heaven ., and take upon bfcis ^ lf tUe nature of man , " The Yearly Epi&tle , I believe , is co # * r sidered as the voice of the whole
body ; hlHs perhaps you , Mr . Editor , can gke &eo > e explanation of , the enigma which has puzzled , Sir , your constant reader , A EftlEND to this QUAKERS .
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Quakers * Yearly Epistle , 46 ?
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the latter we know that within a verv recent period some have lived ** hjp a ^ e of a hundred and sixty , and upwards . Hence , Sir , I apprehend that the whole of the latter clause of the third verse of the sixth chapter of Genesis , relates to something very different from the mere duration of man ' s temporal life .
Ere concluding these hasty remarks , I cannot refrain from slightly adverting to what Dr . Jones has said respecting angels , by which he understands a race of supernatural beings or spirits , and to whom he says , the Jewish Scriptures apply the term
o'n ^ fc *^> &Pn $ ° f God- ^ tai s and other subjects of a similar nature , it might perhaps be as well to remain silent ; but the Doctor and your readers will perhaps once uiore pardon me if I candidly own that in the
numerous passages of the Old and New Testaments which I have been able to consult respecting the EZDOnVd of the original , or the uyysXoi of the Septuagint and the New Te ^ ainent , 1 cannot find one to whieh any idea
of a spirit or supernatural character seems to be attached- It is > in feet , one of those terms which it wore to he wished might be wholly exploded from our translation of the Bible , as no where bearing- in the original the
meaning we now assign to it , and the retention of which only serves to throw an air of romance oa what is , iu the strictest parlance , the word of God . The time , however , appears fast approaching when this and other incongruities are likely to be disposed
of , when the lover of truth and the Christian may expect to find many of those stumbling-blocks removed which have long annoyed him , and when our version of the Holy Scriptures
shall be purged -of anonaalie 3 and inconsistencies , whioii although sufficientl y ia unison with the style of an oriental tale , it is consolatory to know are not to J > e fouod in the ori gmal Hebrew . J . J .
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Clapton * Si « l , July 4 > 1833 .. MR , MANNING ( p . 324 ) doe * not appear to have f ^ oolleofced that Mr . I 4 » dsey closed his ' < Historical View , " published in , 1783 , with the c $ &e of Mr . Ross ; whose " declaration * ' $ s k " . stunUs upou record in the books of the Frasbytery of ^ ranrper /* he hm t } u * s mioted :
" I Andrew jRoss , tmmvtw of the gospel m Ae parish of fneh , < jfojr U ^ exonemtion of my oonagleBCG , jn@& $ particularly with re ^ peot | p tibe tem > * 0 f ministerial cominauipa eigomod fey this cbwcjh >) hvri&y d # ator # , ittwf . J
firmly Q . dh « yce to tJie funde 4 i \ enttd priajciples of the Pxotmitmt reU ^ iow ^ utainely , th » u ? tba Holy Scriptui ^ q £ < tfr £ OJkl wtl New T& 9 tovtom $ &f& the iwly rule of foith mA prac ^ See - > tk& > the exsreine of private jjgkd ^ rw ^ n t ie tine t *^ cb > nbtfid dghli jwd ^ auty of ^ wiy Christian , and jof every C&ri ^ tiftP
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1823, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1787/page/35/
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