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the images or appearances of a vision to be real objects , and their having exact external archetypes . " p . 181 . Whether those images
or appearances have exact external archetypes or not , they are equally judged by the prophet to be real object ^ ( ibid ) ; so that Christ could have no doubt of his
being presented with a sight of all the kingdoms of the world , or of the power of the devil to bestow them upon him ; he could not alter his views and persuasions concerning the objects of his vision , the impression being made bv a hand too stron to be
resisted ; , yet m rejecting the devjl ' s offer he could exercise his understanding , and so evince the pious disposition of his mind . Sueli seems to be the amount of our author ' s reasoning in npi y to the foregoing objection .
Now the only circumstance , as far as I perceive at present , which could deprive this reply of Mr . F . to the objection here brought agaipst- // ^ hypothesis of any part of its force , if made ? to the
objection which he has urged against the common one , is , that if the devil had in person promised Christ all the . kingdoms of the world on his complying with a
certain condition ^ his knowledge of the tempter ' s inability to accomplish his promise would have immediately convinced him , that it was the promise of nothing , and so have rendered his offer an
insult instead of a t « mptation ; but that , it he wore represented in a divine vision ^ as making such an offer , and as having power to make that offergood , Christ must have supposed that he had such power , notwithstanding any know-
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ledge of the contrary ^ which he had derived from any other sources of information . But could Mr , F . or can any advocate for his hypothesis imagine , that our
Lord ' s knowledge of the devil ' s want of power would , in the one case , not have deserted him for a moment , or have been instantly * recollected , and induced him to reject the offer with contempt and to bid the offerer with
abhorij ^ nce depart m him , — but , in the drier , have forsaken him altogether , escaped his recollection ^ or have been totally destroyed and obliterated bv another and
oposite coiiviction , ihe effect of an impression -. irresistibly made on his jnind by the representations of the . vision I Mr . f . allows and insists that our Lord knew who
his tempter was , and founds his proofj that the third temptation was none , according to the common hypothesis , upon that circumsLance , evidently supposing so close an association to have
existed in our Lord ' s mind between the ideas he entertained of the devil ' s character and his knowledge of the devil ' s want of the power he claimed that his personal appeara ? ice would have made him instantaneously advert to the lalter . To have been consistent
with himself , Mr . F , must have granted , that the association between these two things was equally close on his hypothesis , and that in consequence of this association , which , according to a general law in our mental constitution , must have been the same on both hypotheses , the force of the third , temptation would have been equal * ly destroyed on either of then )) unkss some momentary doubt )
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76 Objections to mr . Farmer s Hypothesis . *—Letter II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/28/
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