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spect to the representations of a vision , as with respect to the objects of sense . And consequently , the one may serve for the trial , display , and improvement of virtue , no less than the other .
11 par . p *~ 6 , note . The hisitory represents the tempter as appearing and acting uiider his proper character ; and consequently , without affecting any disguise . 12 par . p . 36 . The prophet
cannot distinguish a vision froiii outward objects which are seen \ vith the bodily eye ; and is affected . by the formed in the same mariner as he would have been by the latter .
13 par . p . 4 . By a ' petstiifol and undisguised Appearance tlie devil can never hope to prevail over the feeblest " virtue . If I do not labour under a great mistake , this list of positions will furnish means of convincing such
of your readers , as with Mr ^ 'E . hold them to be just , that : he has failed in his attempt to prove that the temptation iii the wilderness was a present trial . That he had been thought to liave failect in this point , appears from the first appendix of his third edition , vtfherfe
he endeavours to reniove objections which had been brought against his hypathesis . In examining his reasoning for that purpose , I shall refer to the foregoing positions , which , for the sake of easier reference , and to
avoid as much aS I £ an tedioiis repetitions , I hatte arranged in separate and \ numbered patagraphs . ; ' Ui ) u Mr . F . informs us , ( p . ifty that , , " it is alledged , that the same considerations Which dhtixnikH or destroy ike force of Christ ' s temptation upon the common hypo-
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thesis , equally affect its force vpon mine ; ' * and immediately observes , ^ if this allegation be justy net * ther of those hypotheses can bt
true ; since it serves equally for the conftitatiaii of both . We hope , however ^ to shew ^ that the allegation hds no sufficientfetinddtion tb support it . " He then enters upon what I cannot as yet help regarding as an unaccomplished ,
and indeed hopeless undertaking , With reminding bis Readers , " that ihe ' lriquiryt ( p , iX ) i ) asserts iftfe vision to be directly , and proper * ly , intended , as a prediction and sflhbdt of Christ ' s future temptations . —So that eveu were we td
grant , that : this visioa was not probationary ^ this would not aifect its proper Use and ihtentibh as prophetical and' premonitory . ** Hitherto we do not meet with any thing vvhich goes directly to invalidate the allegation . ;
iMr . E . proceeds to observe ^ ( p 173 ) ^ it is eviderit , that this vision bcijre the fo ipi of a present tnial ; " and in the ? hhx % sehtenc ! 6 illustrat ^ vliat he . Medtit hyform . where he says , id the View and 4 pprehfmsiori bt Christ at the time * , it cofthtiried ^ ce ^ proposals mude to him by the "devil , in order to solicit liiiix to tfvJL "
Whatever thesfe , j > roippsfte W 6 re in themselves , and ab ^ t ^^ ted | y considerdd ^ they could hive nothing in thferii iallpring to 6 hrist in the circuttikances ill which ^ hey Were
made , Mr . F . himself beingjudge , and consequently cotild not b £ present trials of liii virtue and piety . 1 LH \ is see whethet this must ntit fjoflpw ' from some positions in
thci fbrekoing list . ; Mr ( . f : ^ a rife ^ N < y . il ifbat tU $ ievil Is rfept 6 setot ^ d in tha his * ix > ty as ^ peAri ^ , iihYl ^ i ^ iqg , i ] n ^
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Objections to Mr . Farmers Hypothesis . — Letter II . ft
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/23/
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