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    instructions of Jesus Christ are unpa » allHiedf The precepts recorntn-e . ndinor .-lo ' ve to God and to

    our neighbour appear first in the writings of Moses ; bqt the grand universal rule of justice and of social conduct , cc whatever ye would that others should do unto

    you , do ye even so unto them , " is to be found only in the New Testament . What have-been called the natural arguments ibr a future state , may be only respectable presumptions compared with the full revelation of that

    doctrine in the holy scriptures , alone with its confirmation and exemplification in the resurrection of Jesus Christ . But that even fishrrmen and husbandmen , Jo whom the Jewish scriptures were familiar , who had been

    daily favoured with the jnstructi ns of the Messiah , who wore thus persuaded , that the Divine mercy would be extended to penitent reformed man , and assured that the Divine favour

    for ever would be bestowed on those who work righteousness , that men thus circumstanced were unable , without ' supernatural assistance , to relate the history of

    Christ ' s life , especially with the aid of those early memoirs , which it seems from the introduction to Luice ' $ gospel were in being long

    before he wrote , is I fancy much more than your correspondent the Churchman will be able to prove , at least to the gejieral satisfaction of the Christian world . JNec deu $

    mtcrsit ^ nisi digtius vindict nodus inciderit . Let wot a god appear , but for a purpose worthy Of a god . Such was the advice given by Ho * race to those writers of poetics *

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    fictions , who were accustetped to feign divine interpositions , to redeem their heroes from the difficulties and dangers , to which they were exposed * The observation is applicable to the students of the heavenly records , who wisa to decide what human nature cati

    and what it cannot do without unusual divine assistance . Ac * cording to 'Mr . G . Walker ' s excellent representation in his 52 nd sermon , the New Testament , as well as the character of Jesus

    Christ , may be as great a miracle as any which , is recorded 5 both may be unaccountable phenomena ^ without the supposition of a divine revelation , or of a divine spirit or providence . Yet still the apostles were not all fishermen or husbandmen . Matthew was a

    publican and belonged to an order of men , who like excisemen in modern days , were probably at least not ill educated in the common arts of life . The nature of

    their office , so nearly allied to extortion and oppression , might render them unpopular characters , but Cicero has observed , that most of the publicans , col-, lectors or farmers of the revenue

    in his time were of the equestrian order , in pnodern language , knights inferior only to senators hih ! forming a kind of . connecting link between the patricians and the piebians . Luke ' s profession , that of a physician , might enable him to form that elegant and correct

    style , which appears in his writ- * - ings . Besides , who was more active in spreading the gospel than the apostle Paul , and yet he it is certain was acquainted even with Grecian literature-. * , And re-

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    A National Christian ' s Ansxker to the Churchman . 409

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    * Att £ * V & ' * & r Cor . rv \ 33 , Titus L t % *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/9/