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prepossessed . By this consideration we are tempted to put the argument under still another aspect for the sake of those who may have connected the popular scandal of atheism or profane- * ness with the name of the philosopher of Samosata .
Dialogue , at the Gate of a Hebrew City , a . d . 50 . Samaritan , —Alas ! for the city of our habitation , for sore is the affliction Jehovah hath dealt unto her . The poor crieth for justice , and is scorned . The rich glory in their oppression , and no one gainsayeth them . Sadducee . —I marvel that thou shouldst persist to call on one who regardeth not . Speakest thou of a just and merciful Ruler while such things come to pass on the earth ?—If there had been such an one , there had been ' no need of judgment , for there had been no injury : there could have been no glorying in oppression , for into no rnan ' s hand would the power of oppressing be given . Where would be the thunder , if no hurtful vapours were gathered together ? Or how should the valleys be overflowed , if the streams of the hills were restrained within their channels ? There is none to guide , or overlook , or avenge . Let us , therefore , make our hearts merry , knowing that we cannot help that which is , nor foresee that which shall be .
Pharisee . —Nay ; but it is for the guilt of our people that Jehovah smiteth : and if he shall stay our desolation , it will be for the sake of thie ten righteous ( of whom his grace hath made me one ) whom he hath redeemed from his wrath . Blessed be his name for his wondrous works towards us his chosen ones !
Samaritan . —Blessed art thou in the light of his countenance Intercede for us that our plagues may pass away ; for they are heavier than we can bear . Pharisee . —Rather let his righteous will be done , for it is such as thou that have drawn down his wrath upon our city . Yet wilt I intercede , forasmuch as I was once as thou . From what wouldst thou be delivered ?
Samaritan . —From the iniquity of our rulers , and the disputes of them that contest one with another before the judgment-seat . From the plague of war also we would pray to be freed , but that our fields are small and the harvests scanty , so that the people are more than can be fed . —If we escape from one snare , we fall into another ; and thus Jehovah willeth the destruction of his people . Pharisee . —I will entreat him that he stretch forth his hand and save other than the few whom he hath brought nigh unto his footstool . —But whence is the smile on the lips of the stranger who hath overheard our discourse ? These Nazarenes account themselves wise . Let us hear how he regardeth the calamity o £ our city .
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Oh Mature and Providence to Communities * &&&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/39/
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