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with evefy " motive from education , authority , popularity ^ ati 4 interest to attach them to those principles , hav £ > ajt the end of their inquiries , been convinced that they had no solid support in Scripture . What is to be expected , but that this will be more and more the case ? What is to be expected from continued , spreading , and growing inquiries , but new convictions and a wider diffusion of truth ?
The commeticetnent of your measures , for the dissemination of the true knowledge of God and of his Christ , is favourable to such anticipations * It omens well . You behold the swn > cqss of ypur efforts : you look forward to their future efficacy ^ attd , with devaut exultation , you say , within yourselves , f * Great
is the truth , and it will prevail / ' But , besides probabilities , besides conclusions drawn from the natural tendency of . freeN and serious inquiry—besides appearances that augur the , pfo ^ i gress of truth—you have * a more sure word of prophecy * ctot ^ which to forrp your hopes . The sure * word of prophecy realises anticipations , and converts conjectures iato fiaith , M QsiNfeh 4 : t
authority of divine oracles , you may build your hopp ^ of ^ th e ^ prevalence of sacnred knowledge—of the extirpation of error-r--and of the final general reception of just views concerning thei unity of God , in particular . > h . , , ^ The divine oracle spoken by Isaiah declares , chap . xi . 4 v €€ The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord , as th ^
waters cover the sea . Chap . n . s ,. " It shall come to passia ' the last days , that the mountain of the Lord ' s house shall-be established in the top of the mountains , and shall be exalted above the hills , and all nations shall flow unto it . " Chap * xxix , 18 . cc In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book ; and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity , aad * out of darkness /* Verse 24 , " They also that erred in th < 3 spirit shall come to understanding ; an < d they that mfcrmurecl-8 halMearn doctrine / ' The divine oracle declares , by Jeremi $ lv
xxxi . 31—34 . " Behold , the days come , saith the Lord , that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel , and with the house of Judah . I will put iny law- in their inward parts , and write it in their hearts , and I will be their God r and they shall fee niy people . And they shall teach no more every matt
his neighbour , and evety maw his brother , saying , ; Know the-Lord ; for they shall all knowme , fromthe least of them urtto ^ the greatest or them * saith the Lord . " This declaration is re-4 pearl f ed by the Apostle , Heb * viii . 8 . to reviv ^ tixc expectation ^ it raises , and to lead forward our views to its-full ^ aGcbfl | aplfeh >;
me ; ntf The 4 ivine oracle has declared this , in Baftiel ^ both !/ by wdrds anil symbols * The Stone whicli \ 8 ]^ te ^
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73 To the Supporters of the Unitarian Fund .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/16/
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