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Ways more applicable to his gospel , than his person . It is therefore the gospel , and the spirit of Christ , by which irien are to be judged , whether in himself , or in his members . It is in this sense alone , that Paul can speak of men being * jtidgtd
hy kis gospel , Rom , x : L 16 . The term judgment , though condemnation generally attends it , does not necessarily imply any more than decision . As for the saints' being said to judge angels as ¦ well as the world ^ i Cor . vi . % 9 3 , can that mean any thing more than superiors
as well as inferiors are subjected to the judgment or decision of the gospel , of which the saints are both the depositories and the organs . Does it not imply that the Angels of the Church as well as the Church itself and the world are all subjected to this judgment ? And
are not temporal rulers though frequently called God ' s mesengers ol- representatives on earth , subject to the same law of condemnation or acquittal ? The decision or judgment pronounced by the gcspel , is no respecter © f persons . Hence Felix trembled—Hence Pilate the
representative or Angel of the Roman government , calling for water , declared his innocence of the blood of that righteous man . In fact the administration of the last or final judgment by Christ in person , * must be given up entirely , to understand the doctrinal scriptures aright ; but to enter into the prophetical parts of the New and Old Testaments ,
almost all that is said of the day of judgment , resurrection &c . in them , must be Understood as spoken of the nations , of which such circumstances are predicted . This is peculiar to the book of the Revelations . These national judgments are always attended by such calamities as wars , or revolutions . Then in the
prophetic dialect , God may be said to have a controversy with the nations , to plead . with them , &c . While treating on the subject , I am happy to find your learned correspondent in p . 463 , admit that the Revelations relative to the two witnesses , Chap . xi . 16 , may be quoted as scripture . 1 lonh upon the
reasoning powers of Mr . T * Belsham , on this or any other . controverted point , as -outweighing the critical objections of half a dozen Michaelises . But even B / shop Hurd , when treating of the prophecies had , as for as concerned them 4 nJy , pretty clearly established the posi-
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tion •« that Christ Will rot himself , personally , bear any part in the final judgment . ** The application of thm principle may be extended to other offices and circumstances ; that of att earthly Messiah for instance , may also be executed by a delegate . There 5 s n 6
necessity to repeat the panegyric yott have admitted upon a Very exalted per * sonage , in pages 5 Q 2 , 503 of ydur Mag . nor do I wish here to enlarge upon the propriety of £ them ; but in answer to the quotation , in which it is said , "
Without endeavouring to find the hero in . ancient prophecies as some have done * and we will not say they have done it injudiciously ; without implicitly relying on those who assure Us that he is the
man on the white clouds in the Revelations , with a golden crown on his head * \ vithout committing ourselves to declare that he is the angel of God , commissioned for high and important purposes , though it is to be noted that the moral qualities of the agent do not jprevent that epithet , being applied to him , &cv &c . ' * I reply that though some of my own publications are evidently alluded to in these indirect charges , ? I do not wish to enter into any dispute upon the subject , but only to acknowledge openly and without reserve that I do sincerely
helieve that every one of the e sublime qualifications , do actually and bona Jidt p apply to the potentate in question ; for as the act of judging the world is evidently not confined to the person of Christ , surely the inferior office of being his delegate on earth , to chastise the offending nations , to prepare the way of the Lord , and make the paths straight ,
rmy be intrusted to his harbinger—to one endued with the spirit of JElijah , who among sovereigns , has done more than all his predecessors , towards " turning the hearts of the fathers to the children , and th $ hearts of the children to the fathers ; " by taking the reproach front the Jews , and in a declaration to hi * Protestant Dissenters becoming the first
sovereign upon earth , who has acknowledged " that for religious toleration M * subjects owed him no obligation t that he did not wish men to think themselves indebted to him because he had hceii merely just ; and tha $ Conscience xs NOT WITHIN THf JURISDICTION Off human laws ! " Now if this potentate bad no other qualification to rectttanuwoK
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 613, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/49/
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