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    ration of the Spirit on the mind of Jesus , then the words in or by the Spirit cannot in this instance imply a vision * and if not , when manifestly used to denote the cause of our Lord ' s departure

    from Jordan , ( and they are not employed afterwards in the narraxative ., ) there can be no just reason for assigning to them at the same time another import , 'and ipaking them denote also a vision , Unless the context force us to

    understand them in a double sense , which it clearly does not . Before X conclude this paragraph , I shall avail myself of some passages in Mr . F . Vpiece , from which the same fact of Christ ' s removing in ger&on from the side of Jordan

    under an impulse of the Spirit , ^ which , however , according to my apprehension has been satisfactorily established already , ) may be farther proved . In p . 62 . we rea 4 , " Though it could not with any propriety be said , that Christ was at this time carried into the

    wilderness in a corporeal manner , in which sense he was there already ; yet there is nothing improper in saying , he was now conveyed into a wilderness in a spiritual manner . " The time here referred

    to was when he was led by the Spirit . Jn page 82 . note p . Mr . F . says , It appears from the history , that Christ was in the wilderness bordering on - Jordan when the temptation ended , as well as when it btfgan , pursuing

    Jiis journey into Galilee . " From note f . p . 55 . quoted above , it appears , that Mr . F . thought Jesus was not upon the banks of Jordan , when he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness . Now , if Christ was corporeally in the wilderness which bordered on Jordan ,

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    but not on its banks , when the vision came upon him , he ipust have gone in person from the side of Jordan , before he fell iatd thg

    vision or trance ; and ( sts before ^ observed ) it was , agreeably to the ? concurring testimony of the Qvangelists , some Operation of the Spirit on his mind , which made him go thence . The effect of this

    operation , then , ' as already noticed , cannot be fairly concluded to have been also the exciting of a vision * I shall only add here * that the words which speak of the operation , whatever it was , are tho&e , 6 n which Mr . F . lays great stress in attempting to prove the tempta *

    tion a vision . In direct opposition , as it should * seem , to this statement , Mr . F » in his explanation of Mark i . 10 —? 13 k p . 71 j " 74 .. observes , No

    Sooner did the Spirit descend upon Jesus of his baptism , than by his inspiration fye was carried into sk frightful desert in a prophetic trance or vision . In this situatioa

    and in this state he remained for forty days , during all which space he was , according to his own apprehension , assaulted by the temptations of Satan , and exposfed to danger from the fury of wild beasts /'— -Where and when it was

    that the Spirit descended upon Jesus , the evangelists leave us no room to doubt . It was upon the banks of Jordan , * to which he went up straightway from the water

    after he had been baptised , Matt , iii . l £ , Marki , 10 . Luke iii . » 1 , 2 $ . If , then , the Spirit descended upon him , while he was on the side of Jordan- and

    certainly in the sight of John the baptist , ' who saw the Spirit descend upon him , and if , assoou as the Spirit descended upon him .

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    Objections to Mr . farmers Hypothesis . 19

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/19/