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From the time of the Prophecy being delivered by Isaiah , Ahaz reigned sixteen years , 2 Kings xvi . 2 . Hezekiah reigned twenty-nine years , 2 Kings xviii . 2 . But Samaria was taken , and Ephraim broken , that it was not a people in the
sixth year of Hezekiah , ch . xviii . vers . 9 —li . These six years then being added to the sixteen of Ahaz ' s reign , this event happened about twenty-two years after the prediction , that is , it was much withiu the limited time of sixty-five years , that Ephraim was broken * that it was not a people .
From the time of the Prophecy being delivered by Isaiah , Pekah reigned three years , 2 Kings xv . 27 , and xvi . l % He was cut off in the third of Ahaz , by Hoshea , who began to reign in the twelfth year of Ahaz ' s reign . Consequently there was an interreign of
nine years . — Hoshea reigned nine years , ch . xvii . ver . 1 ; Pekah reigned three , making together twenty one or twentytwo years , agreeably to the result of the reigns of the kings of Judah . Thus , then , is this prediction of the prophet fully verified .
3 . It is again added , that if Ahaz did not believe , surely he should not be established . The Lord would bring upon him , his people and his father ' s house , the king of Assyria and the Egyptians . By them the country would be laid desolate , the people led
away captive , and every thing destroyed . For the accomplishment of this , see 2 Chron . xxviii . 20 ; xxxii . 1 , 9 ; xxxiii . 11 ; xxxv . 20—24 > and xxxvi . throughout . These passages ,
with the corresponding- ones in 2 Kings , and their parallels in several of the prophets , abundantly verify this third prediction delivered in the name of the Lord , by J Isaiah to Ahaz himself .
I am now come to a conclusion of what I had to offer on this very plain prophecy ; which appears , methinks , with so much consistency , clearness and unity , from the beginning throughout , that I natter myself
we cannot be far from seeing it in its true and proper light . I am not conscious of the least force put upon the natural construction or meaning of the words . Unbelievers can no longer deride us for admitting a fact for a S 1 £ n , which , both on account of the
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time of its exhibition , and tlie verynature of it , could not possibly answer any such purpose . For how , said they , not without some show of reason , could a person be persuaded of a future event , which he was disposed to question , merely from being
told , at the same time , and upon the same authority only , that a second event , not less improbable than the first , should succeed it in after ages ? The answer has been already given , and the sign shewn to result from a
precurrence of facts , well attested by credible witnesses , and , therefore , impossible to be overlooked or mistaken ; not posterior to , but preceding , what was meant to be established by them . " See Blayney ' s Sermon , pp . 14 , 15-
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Dr . Fletcher ' s " Thoughts on Church and State . " 507
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ItJi 27 ete 7 * Sir , August 17 , 1823 . TN your monthly list of New
Pub-JL lications you have omitted to notice a very extraordinary work by Dr . Fletcher , a Catholic Priest , entitled , " Thoughts on the Rights and Prerogatives of Church and State . '
I caught a glimpse of the book as it passed through Exeter , and in that cursory view of it met with assertions which astonished roe and will surprise those readers of the Repository who have not met with the publication .
At page 86 , he says , " It is not true that the constitution of this country is Protestant . It is on the contrary much rather Catholic . When it is said that the constitution is Protestant , is the meaning of the
assertion this , that therefore the king and bis ministers , the members of the legislature and of the government are or ought to be , the believers of the thirty-nine articles , or the professors of the doctrines of the Church of
England ? Is such the import of the term ? No , it is not , because we may remark the state for ever admits into its councils and its cabinet , into its parliament and various offices , men of very different and even opposite religions , Calvinists , Presbyterians ,
Methodists , &c , nay even sometimes , men of no religion , £ for we have seen even this , ) Socinians , Unitarians , De . ists and unbelievers . Therefore the consequence is , that the constitution is not Protestant in this sense , that men . are bound in order to enjoy the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/11/
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