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488 Questions concerning the Old and Istw Testaments .
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ji QUESTIONS TO MR . EEJLSIIAM * , CONCERNING TFIE OLT ) AND KEW TESTAMENTS .
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Woburn , silt , July 10 , 1808 . From the candour and liberality displayed in the letters of Mr . Belsham , particularly in his replies to a correspondent who signs
himself " A , " and to "A Churchman / ' in the Repository for May , I am induced to propose to his consideration the three following questions ^ and shall think myself greatly obliged by his unreserved
opinion respecting them . Should a replication on my part become necessary , I trust the discussion will be conducted in such a man - ner as becomes men who have nothing more ardently in view than the discovery of truth wherever it may be found .
First . Why the manifestation of the Supreme Being to mankind under the Old Testament , should be of a nature so different to that under the New , as in the former case , to command the Jews to destroy ibe surrounding nations , and in
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the latter to command us to love our enemies ? Secondly . Why , under the Old Testament , the rewards and punishments were of a temporal nature , whilst under the New , they are asserted to be future And eternal ?
Thirdly . Why the writings both of the Old and New Testaments , should be so ambiguous , as to produce among mankind such a variety of opinions respecting the true intcrnretation of them ?
I have stated these queries in as plain and concise a manner as possible ; and as you readily admitted a former communication
from mo respecting the " Inward Light of the Quakers , " I trust that your indulgence will be so far extended , as to admit the present article . With respect , I remain , Sir , Your ' s , &c . VERITAS .
* . Since this communication was sent to the press , -we have received the following note from the -writer , occasioned by a remark in our last number , correspondence ^ p . 456 . " Veritas was not at first aware of the impropriety of addressing Mr * Belshaiu personally ! he however readily admits it : and therefore considers the queries , proposed , as addressed to the correspondents in general of the Monthly Repository . Ep *
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fair inheritance , on any one able and willing to convey it unimpaired to posterity . Such an oikj whs Dr . Kippis , especially in the
case of Lurdiu . w , with whose latter years he had been personally acquainted , whose connexions were in many instances the same < aiu \ their pursuits congenial .
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I never heard that Lardner ' s relations took any other means to avoid the unpuiation of 7 having consented that Dr . Kippis should become his biographer . Perhaps
on re-consideration ot the subject they mi " ht even regret their interierencc . Your ' s , R . C .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 488, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/32/
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