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nefezarY image , sand was int ^ Dded to ^ pr
predicted , chap , xiiL 4- < c Mmy : shullv ? ua to anij fro * and knowledge shall be increased *! / t ' lie drivine oracle h ^ s ^ 4 ire ^| e 4 our views to the sam ^ eV ^ nt , / by the p&r ^ $ Q& k o £ j £ sfc& £ J ^ prip of" a grain of mustard , whieh -A ma ^ t (^ jk ^ an < i sow ^ l ? i »»? his
fields ; which is the least bf all Seeds * but > wfaeii it i&fgrowtl , it is the greatest among herbs , and becomes a tree ^ ^ d the birds of the air come arid lodgca in the branched thereof .: *' ¦ ap < l by another parable , of ** a littk leav ^ p , whitrh a woman took , and hid in three measufe ^ of me ^ l , till the vyhdle was leavened- ^
Matt . xiii . 31 ,- ^ -33 . Both thes ^ paf ^|> les !^ i : e ^ propj \ eti s ^ , apd point to oneererit ^ the growing and ^ my ^ rsal spread of ^ ( Christian truth s or of the religioti taughtrfoy . Christ ; of whiph one fundamental article is , " That tlie Lord our GpcJ i $ , pxie-J ^ p rd ; and the other is , that Jesus is the Chript a liian ^ ppr ^ c 4 of God , whotti God hath raised up atid pni ^ de bpthj . I # > nd and
Christ ;? Matt , xxiu 37 . compared with I > eyt ,: iyir 3 vand ilcts ti ,: S 2 ^ 3 ® , 36 * : ... , « . - - - ' i £ Di Vf ,,-r ¦ ,: i ::: . ,-. You will iiecal to memory , with ^ plc ^ igiiire and with hppe , these prdphetie declaratioiiSi as jui § ti | yii % ( be jexp ^ ctation that the faithvypu profess—r the belief thali | he Eatherb the qnjy true C 5 od . and that Jesus of Nazareth , is tb ^ Christy his r anointed
Messenger and Servant , John xvh . 3- is the truth wt ^ h which ail fleah ^ agreeably to thfe prayer of your Lord , sljalV in due iSeason ^ becomfe acquainted ; that prayer of subjime devotion to his Father , and of ^^ diffusive . b ^ n CTplence % manki ^ d > with which , by a predictive Spirit , * he closed his ministry . ; The " sure word of proohecy , ' uttered by the seers of old ,
and confimied by the words of JesUs , the true ami faithful Witness , hath predicted ( referring , iji panicujar , ta tjlerise ai > d spread , arid \ iuiversal influenGe of tbe Gospel ) . the 1 future prevalence of divine knowledge , Xhe propheticyfi ^ irit foresaw and pi ; edieted , that the GoSpcntsdf , after it bad been enibvaccd in its purity arid simplicity , would be corrupted and peryerted by hmnan inventk > ns » The -foresight ty ^ in mam-, many .
instances , through a course of ages , realized , Jt has been ^ vef consolatory to the friends of twfch aud fjure Christianity ^ that as the corrujptjoa of . the Gospel ^ sii . the recovery , qf ir to--Ua jpri $ U 0 ^ - " siiuplicUy ^ was pH » dictf 4 . The final cHirp ^ tioiv of religiouiiSkl ^^ ad amd enor fonps ^ Lgladdening subj ^ t of £ fcaT pheojr ... ^ r £ ver ^ pl ^ t / ' sftith ^ PW ^ iv ^ e Ala ^ tcr , " which " uiy Kt ^ y « xt \ y Smkwr haih v&x p \ m ) M ^ 9 ^ 4 \ b ^ rootcfi yp / Matt . XVi . ita , ; ; i ^ Qt btr \ ioun 44 Uon tt ^ fi no njap laW ^ ? aith the Apostkj iC ^ b aa ^ th ^ wi ^ cb i # l rf \ d ^ which is Jesu s Christ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/17/
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