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whether the devil did , or did not enjoy th ^ power he arrogated to himself arose in our Lord ' s mind , occasioned by lite opposition between his former knowledge however acquired , and his present conviction produced by the representations made to him in the vision . But of the existence of such a doubt I cannot discover the . slightest traco in the
evangelical nar % itives of the temptation ^ which on the contrary seo . rn . evidently to lead to the conclusion , that our Lord was as prompt in deciding and acting , as he couLj have been , had his ideas or apprehensions concerning his adversary ' s-character and extent of power , been al all times unvariabty the same . Unless , therefore , it can be shewn , either that the devil ^ s known want of power to make good his promise was not recollected and opposed to the conviction of his enjoying such power produced ( as Mr . F . con . ceived ) by some representation in the vision , which surely cannot
be shown but from the gospel narratives of- the temptation , or by proving that the universally experienced operation of / thfc law of the association of ideas ' -in causing recollection was in our Lord ' s particular case suspended for a time—or , that if such opposition actually took place , and was of course noticed by Christ at the time , it occasioned no disturbance in the exercise of his understanding or passions * ;—unless I say it can be satisfactorily made out , that one or both of these things happened , ( for neither of
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Objections to Mr . Farmer ' s Hypothesis . —Letter II . 77
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which have I ever met with any evidence whatsoever ) I must conclude for myself , that Mr . Fs « hypothesis has no advantage over the common one in proving the third temptation to have been a present trial of our Lord ' s virtue and piety .
Other objections ( and in my humble opinion of some weight ) to the scheme of the Inquiry have occurred to my mind , which , to avoid wearing out the patience of your readers , I shall not bring forward , at least for the present . I now lay down my pen , intending , ¦( if capacity and opportunity of doing it be afforded me ) to resume it for the purpose of obviating objections to the hypothesis I have long adopted , which in its great outline differs scarcely by a shade from those of Mr . Dixon
and Mr . Newcome Cappe . In the mean time I shall be glad to see any objections to their hypotheses , which some among your numerous readers may have to start , as they may equally lie against mine , and merit particular attention , vyhich I shall be disposed to pay to them , especially if they should materially differ from those , which several years ago
occurred to my own mind , or were suggested by a very learned and ingenious friend deceased , all of which I then examined with all the impartiality and care i was master of * I remain , with the best wishes for the growing reputation and success of your useful miscellanys Yours , &c . GERON .
* It appears , ( says Mr . F . ) from instances before cited , that vision did not disk turb the understanding or passions of the prophet ; p . 13 J , note 11 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/29/
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