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so existed in the counsels of the Deity . " Very true , " observed M . Rostaing ••¦ he ' was prophesied of before Abraham was , at the beginning of the world , when it was said , The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent ' s head . ' And why , " he added , suppose miracles where there is no occasion ? Our professor of theology , M . Marian , of Basle , used to tell us it was . sugeneral rule in the interpretation of Scripture , not to multiply miracles when all the appearances could be accounted for without them . " < I understood that this
was M . Rostaing ' s own application of a general maxim laid down by ^ the professor . I replied , I thought the maxim a perfectly sound one , and inquired in what way the professor himself employed it . «• An instance occurred to his recollection , " he said , "in the passage where ravens &re represented as coming to feed the prophet Elijah in the desert . I Kings xvii . 6 . The word translated ravens signifies also Arabians ; there is no difference in the letters , and only a slight one in the Masoretic punctuation *
It seems more probable , " said our professor , •* that Arabians should have been prompted by the Deity , through a feeling of compassion * to provide food for the prophet , than that a biiui of the air should have done so . ?¦ ( Ufod does not perform his wonderful works except where ther ordinary meatis would not answer the purpose . " ; f b ? i >> i On our arrival at Rioclaretto we found the congregation ^ wh ich ^ was but small , assembled on the outside of the churchy standing ! in the snofai
awaiting the arrival of their pastor . He greeted all andueacfri singl y ^ and was received with great respect and with countenance ® 3 iuB -q& ' kltisfaction . One of them called him aside , and , I suppose , ttohfc frim ^ of some injury he had suffered from the Catholics , {\ na wWspef , )^ fdo :. i ^ pastor immediately began to talk to the people about / theirt sufferings Jfefci
conscience ' sake . He observed , it had always been so fj ^ ra ^ fhe first s ; and > gave a short account of the persecutions endtired ky thei ready > 1 © hristianfe under the Roman emperors , adding , that our Saviour , likd a brave ; general led the way , and that the common soldier could not reasonably eoniplain <> £ the fatigues and dangers of the war when he saw his commander , partaking the same lot with the common men . After tm > we all entered tke iitifcle
church , a very poor building , with only one window * inwhijc ^> rjpAj 09 ^> i 8 t ^ plied the want of glass . After a short prayer ,- and * reciting the Apdstltfis Creed , the pastor took up Ostervald's Catechism , and calling @p a Venerable old man " with white hair , on his right , to stand up , he askedhiii ^ " IW ^ atlis the most essential thing of all ? " Religion , " replied the old nfcariv v < * iIk
what does religion consist ? " •« In knowing and serving , God ^\ « Here ? » the pastor entered into a short explanation of what was intended < by . the term God , that he was the Author of all things we beliold , and that as when we saw a watch with all its curious mechanism , we concluded that it must have had a maker ; so also with respect to the world , which was a wonderful machine of which God was the Maker . After a few miuutee '« address to the
old man , he called on the rest to stand up , until he had gone through the whole copgregation , male and female , explaining in a familiar manner Ip eacli ? bme fmpprtant point in religion . He spoke at l ^ rge ^ f ;^ Christ , his death , &c . ; but I discovered ¦? no marks of ttie peculiarities a > £ orthodoxy ; ' f | f " ' ! ¦ < ¦¦ .. . - ¦ < > . - <\ - ^\ ¦ - , i < i < . im- , ' . ' I ' ' ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ,, . . . ' II ilrl ! I , ) || m (/ i / u ' : i ' ? . •'* . v , , . ¦ ¦ m- . ¦ .. ( . ., ; ,- , . .- , , .. f ( , , r ir ,, ii . f ••„( : ., ' / . ' 1 \ . ¦ . i , ¦ , . . > i ; i ¦ ¦ - ¦ .. ¦ . ., (( ,, . ¦ . ¦ , . ; \ , i , i > t , , . t ) | ; i , [ /! / , , . ¦ i , , 1 1 ¦ i , 1 J - J > ( ' t I ' .. •! .. ' I ' '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 724, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/12/
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