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    sometimes are apt to imagine . I overtook on the road a person with a bible in his hand , taking his walk in the morning from a small country town . I took him to be a mechanic of the place ; and ., in passing him , congratulated his early application

    to study , and expressed my satisfaction , that his time was so well employed . This led to a conversation , in which I learned that he was not a mechanic but a man of study , acquainted with the bible in its original languages , and minister of the methodist congregation in the town , in Lady Huntingdon's

    con-. We chatted together on the importance of religious meditation , and the great duty imposed on every Christian , to form a true conception of his relation to God , through our Saviour ;

    and I observed , how much indebted I was to the study of my Hebrew bible , by which I was at first led to understand clearl y * - "what God had chosen to reveal of himself , and how to worship the God of Jesus Christ , who in earlier times was known by the names of Jehovah and the God of Israel . You do not

    then ^ he said Q < , worship the plurality . No , Sir > I replied , God fe $ s said , thou shait worship no other gods but me : " if ha had said to me , thou shalt worship the plurality , I should worship the plurality , I should undoubtedly worship it ; but leannot admit of any term in religious matters ^ which is ' iutfcripturaL and is the invention of human reason . He wished then

    to convince me , that a term might be used , which was not in the scripture ; talked of essence and trinity ; but I kept to the same point , that , as they were the invention of men , a true Christian could have nothing * to do with them ; he had a master * namely , Jesus ^ the Christ ; he was ordered by that master ^ to have no other master ; and all persons who set up formasters ^ and all persons who believe in these masters , were fallen from the truth , as it is in Jesus .

    After a little discussion on these points , he asked me , whether I thought Jesus to be a man merely , like myself . I replied , yes in every respect , except , that he was more highly favoured by God , was the appointed saviour of mankind , and for his obedience , was raised to be the head of all mankind * Upon this my companion ran into the usual strain of gentlemen of this persuasion ., assured me , that I could not be saved by this faith , and was necessarily doomed to perdition . To this I calmly replied , that such language was not very polite , and the mode of arguing was not good , for I might just as well say the same of himself ; but I was taught not to judge any man ; to his own Maker I leave him , and I did uot doubt , that the Judge of all the earth would do right .

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    A Theological Conversation * 581

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 581, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/17/