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9 proofs of his divine mission were really what they profess to be ; since it is impossible to suppose the same person to have been at one time a divinely commissioned prophet , and at another a vile impostorl As far , therefore , ss the historical evidence , properly so called , of a divine revelation is concerned , a single indisputable example of the performance of such a work as no man could do unless God were with him , is all that is absolutely essential .
The great number of miracles recorded in the New Testament was , indeed , important at the time , in order powerfully to impress the minds of the people in whose presence they were actually exhibited , and to secure to the first preachers of the gospel the attention of their hearers while the proof derived from testimony of such works , performed in other places , had not as yet been fully authenticated and made known ; but to us , the complete esta * blishment of the reality of one such miracle as the cure of the blind man ,
the raising of Lazarus , to say nothing of the resurrection of out Lord himself , furnishes all the evidence for the divinity of his mission which can be derived from such a source . It is an evidence which , when fairly considered , cannot fail to be satisfactory to a candid and reflecting mind . For myself , I feel obliged , not only to a philosopher like Mr . Bentham , but even to such
writers as Paine and Carliie , for supplying by their objections or partial representations an additional motive for a renewed attention to the subject : for I am confident that the more frequently and carefully it is examined , the more decisive and complete the evidence will appear . To say that it is not the evidence of demonstration or of sense , is nothing to the purpose ; it is
merely saying that we do not possess a species of proof which the nature of the subject mil not admit . It is , however , a proof not only equal , but much superior to that upon which , if any man were to hesitate to act in the ordinary concerns of life , he would be universally contemned as a madman or a fool ; it is a proof which cannot be rejected without destroying the credit of all historical testimony , and refusing our assent to every fact for which we have not the direct evidence of our own senses . r T .
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The echoes of thy voice are heard afar , O Happiness ! through all the listening world ; While hov'ring over us , thy bright wings unfurl'd , Thou tellest us what heavenly raptures are . We hear them in the little skylark ' s song , In infant laughter , and they come and go In youthful breasts , and visit oft and long
The pious heart . —But still thine accents flow As of one warbling in an unknown tongue . The music is expansive , and v ( e know That we could comprehend the theme sublime , Now wrapt in mystery . —O come the time When all the understanding , all the soul , Shall join $ h * angelic lays which through heavVs regions roll ! *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/9/
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