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peared at the transfiguration , ( Mark , ix . 4 . ) and various saints , who arose at the crucifixion , ( Matthew , xxvii . 52 and 53 . ) must be added to the number .
Surely there is no improbability , in supposing with the Catholics , that all very holy persons , from th £ moment of their release from purgatory , pass into the coramujiity of saints , and are within hearing of our prayers and our praise . The apotheosis of Christ , which was revealed to the first martyr ,
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( Acts , vii . 55 and 56 . ) is so re peatedly vouched by John and Paul , that I need not refer to the specific texts ; and we know from Pliny , that the first Christians sang hymns to him , as to a God :
so that , from the commencement of the Christian church , botU Jesus , and his most conspicuous
followers and allies , appear to have been honoured with some subordinate species of worship . I remain , Your curious reader , CHARICLO .
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54 $ On the Testimony of the Jews to the Person of Christ . Letter 7 .
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fcE-TTERS TO MR . ( NOW BISHOP ) BURGESS , ON THE TESTIMONY OF THE JEWS TO THE PERSON OF CHRIST . LETTER VII .
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SIRj The testimony of the Jews is « jf very little importance , when cotnpared with that of our Saviour : and , though we have seen ,
that they had not the least notion of his being God or equal with God , yet it is incumbent upon us to examine , what our Lord
himself has said upon this subject . The first thing , that would strike an impartial inquirer is , that our Savioiir seldom gives a direct
testimony of himself ; and the reason is evtdeftt . - He had the business to perform , which his father had given him to do , and a public and open avowal of his character would have exposed him to very great difficulties in the execution
of it . We read that the people were willing at one time to set him xip for a king , and the temper of the Jew ' s was so adapted to rebellious outrage , that the least intimation on his part of a desire to &it on the throne of David , might have excited a tumult in the
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country , to be quelled only by military force . On this account , when Peter acknowledges him to be the Christ , the Son of God , he orders him not to divulge it abroad ; for this truth was to spread itself gradually , and to be founded on conviction from the
works which he had done . We find him , however , disco , vering himself to those , from whom no danger could be expected . The enmity between the Jews and Samaritans was so great , that the belief of the latter would have no influence on the conduct of the
former . Our Saviour made no scruple therefore of avowing himself to the Samaritans ; but the utmost of their belief was ; This man is * indeed the Christ , the Saviour of the world .
To the man , whose sight had been miraculously restored , and who had spoken so firmly before the Jewish Sanhedrim , no harm was to be apprehended in a declaration from Christ . Our Saviour
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/18/
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