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tbat all Christian communions have departed , in some degree , from the truth as it is in Jesus ? That " Christ is the eternal truth , " that " he could not say the yea and the nay upon the
same subject , " that "he could not contradict himself in the way in which many of the communions in question contradict each other , " is allowed . Must it fol-Jow that the same uniformity , the same infallibility , shall subsist amon g those who bear his name ,
and who be it remembered , are imperfect human creatures ? As justly might we maintain , that none who are endued with reason
will ever be the slaves of prejudice and ignorance . Such arguments are inconclusive against the evidence of facts , ( p . 1 . 5 . ) Dr . M . appeals , on this point , to the authority of Scripture .
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1809 , Nov . nth . In Tryon Place , Hackney , aged 85 , the Rev . PHILIP DA VIES . * He was born in 1704 , at Haverfordwest , where his father , the
Rev . Evan Davies , was pastor of a dissenting congregation . Removing from thence to take charge of the dissenting academy at Carmarthen , his son Philip received the early part of his education in that establishment . In his
17 th year , he was serrt to the acadenMfc , in London , where He continued iBf studies under the Rev Dr . Jennings , and finished them under the Rev . Mr , Eames . He had for a fellow-student Dr . Price , with whom he enjoyed an uninterrupted friendship till the death
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But we must be permitted ( o re mark , that he docs not seem to understand the texts on which he places his Tel ranee . " There-is no quality , " says he , " of his disciples , which Christ insisted upon more frequently , or more energetically , than upon their unity ; and he expressly assures us that he shall collect the whole flock
which belongs to him in one sheep - fold under one shepherd" Now it is true that he does insist preeminently upon their unity ; but it is unity in love to him and each other . * And when he prophecied that there should be one fold , under one shepherd , his meaning was , that he should form
believing Jews and believing Gentiles into one body . This passage therefore is perfectly foreign tQ our author ' s purpose , ( ib . )
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of that excellent and justly celebrated H Upon his leaving the academy Mr . D . was chosen pastor by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters at Billericay , Essex , where . he resided forty years , most highly respected and beloved his
During the latter years of ^ residence there , he was induced , hy the hope of providing more amply for his family , to enter largely into agricultural concerns . Being , in these , unsuccessful , he left Billericay and resided for the last twenty-four years of his life at Hackney .
" Mr . D . ' s religious principles discovered themselves by an exalted piety and great benevolence of character .
• John , xvit , 18 , & $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/40/
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