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    there is a Go 3 j , aiid that the dead will be raised ^ I as folly understand as believej nor do I believe any thing about them btjt what I understand . I cannot perceive the possibility of believing what I

    do not : understand , because it would be believing what I am i gnorant of , in other words , believ * ing a thing without knowing what it'is , which seems to nie absurd even to think of , I might assent to it , but it would be a blind assent , not a conviction of the truth ,

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    ON THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST . —LETTER III .

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    { Concluded from page 400 )

    We read that great multitudes flocked from different parts to John to ht baptized * The probability therefore is , that John was seldom , if ever perfectly alone at Jordan , w hen he was there for the purpose of baptizing , and ihat this was not the case when

    Jesus applied to him for baptism . Now if it be unlikely that Jesus and the Jew , whom Olearius supposes to have afterwards become his tempter , were the only persons present when the , spirit descended , and a voice was heard from

    heaven , pointing out to John the distinguished personage whose approach he was s ^ nt to announce , * $ > t not strange that no more than a single individual of tbo company shculd have Jj > een prompted by

    curiosity ,, or at » y other motive , to visit \ tv his retirement < Mje who h ^ 4 been ox hi kited toj tt > ei ^ % » otice ; ift so singular , a njanufi ; * $ nd to

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    or reality of that to tvhjch I assented ,. Now , sir , my difficulty , which I wish to have solved , is tQ know how other persons , and there who to do

    arern ^ ny profess it , go to work to believe what they do not understand , that is , what they are ignorant of . Has God given them a Faculty of mind I do not

    possess , or rs jf true that they do not really believe all they profess to believe ? I remain , Your ' s , &c . A LEARNEE .

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    some who had been witnesses , or by any other means , who Jesus had been announced from heaven to he , does it not still rt main to be very strange and unaccountable , that there should be no intimation

    of his having been taken any notice of in a similar way by any other Jew , while he was in the desert , not even by the baptist himself , if his tempter were really one of his

    countrymen ? If the tempter werfe a Jew , have we tiny ground for supposing that there were peculiar considerations of any sort whatsoever , by which no other Jew , wliether

    member of the Sanhedrim or not , was likely to be induced to pursue some method of finding out what were iour Lord ' s pretensions or prospects ? But could ft be thought possible that the ? ft 6 tivfes

    which aettiatedJthe tfer&pter iiiight ' - be of sirch n hatuto tbtit ' ifto c ^ th& . Jew'c ^ uM be : intiaenfeed by !> tlrtSttj i ' itjwoujd / feiill regain to be ^ ifcetf , ' ' hotti ;^ amb the tempt ^ iv &ft& h av ^ i » g lai ^ t kvjt k ^ oi prowj > f ^ ina ^ fei ckied o ^ osifjipttsteihTsrJfittlt fcBfdfi ' oub pmpo ^ il , reeojamien ^ ihg it §^ lf to our Lord ' s attention by the

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    On the Temptation &f Chtist . —Letter 3 . 447

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/23/