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offend them ! Is not the scriptural account more consistent , when it informs us that the prejudices were strong , —that our Saviour did not needlessly outrage them when there was no object to be gained by doing so , —that the apostles themselves needed supernatural direction to lead them beyond their own narrow views , —that miracles were necessary to vindicate them to the Jewish Christians *—and that , even then , Jewish
exclusiveness was not altogether satisfied ? The chapter on the doctrines of Christianity , as preached to heathens , presents little of importance . It is designed to show that divines have been mistaken in arguing that the nature of the doctrines ' acted as obstructions' to their diffusion among heathens . The only doctrines that can with any propriety be said to have
had this tendency are left unnoticed or misstated , perhaps through the fault of his orthodox authorities . Paul says * Christ crucified * was to the Greeks foolishness ,, but this obstruction is not alluded to . Our author quotes Bishop Watson as arguing that * a future life , as promulged in the Gospel / provoked the contempt of the philosophers . Did not their objections rather start up at the
doctrine of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ ? Our author , singularly enough , undertakes to show that the Christian doctrine of ' the damnation of hell' ( p . 51 ) was no objection in the minds of the heathen . They could not be of his mind , then , nor of the same mind with the thousands' who , he told us at starting , * reject Christianity , without further examination , from
abhorrence of the doctrine of eternal perdition alone . ' ( Pref . xiii . ) He might have spared himself this inconsistency , and avoided the absurd comparison which he draws ( pp . 56 , 57 ) between the supposed apostolic style of preaching and that which Wesley recommended to his preachers , of ' throwing men into strong terror and fear , and striving to make them inconsolable / Is it not
ludicrous , if we think it no worse , to give , ' as a specimen of the sort of preaching which may be supposed to have made Felix tremble , ' the following from * Southey ' s Life of Wesley , '— ' Mine and your desert is hell ; and it is mere mercy ,- —free , undeserved mercy , that we are not now in unquenchable fire ? ' * Art thou thoroughly convinced that thou deservest eternal damnation , ' &c . ( 7 b be continued . )
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¦ T 8 S "Orthodoxy and Unbelief .
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SCRIPTURE CRITICISM .
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Matt . xii . 31 . —Some stress has been laid by the advocates of the eternity of future punishments on this remarkable expression of our Saviour , ' All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men , but the blasphemy against the Jdol y Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men * ' Some have- thought that this
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 788, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/68/
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