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sis , ch . xx . by Dr # Adam Clarke ^ have been thought to form an admirable reply to the illiberal J and iinchristi ^ n address of . £ - * to the Methodist Preachers in the
Brighton Circuit /* ( voL v . p . 592 . ) If you think them worthy of a place in your Repository , their insertion ivill oblige
W . TITFORD . c The cause why the Patriarch did not acknowledge Sarah as his wife , Was a fear lest he should lo $ e his life on her account * * for /
he said , ' surely the fear , i . e . the true warship of the true God is not in this placed Such is the natural bigotry and narrowness of the feumaft heart , that we can scarcel y , allow tha # any besides ourselves possess the true religion .
To indulge a disposition of this kind is highly btetmeable . The true religion is not confined 4 , o one spot nor one people ; it is spread in various forms over the whole
earth . He who fills immensity has left a record of himself in every nation and among every people under heaven . Beware of this spirit ! for bigotry produces uncharitableness , and
uncharitableness harsh judging , and in such a spirit , a man may think he does God service , when he dashes out the brains , or makes a burnt-offering of the person ,, whom his narrow mind and hard heart
have dishonored with the name of heretic . Such a spirit is not confined to any one community , though it has predominated in some ; more than in * others But
these things are highly displeasing in the sight of God . He , as the Father of the spirits of all flesh , loves every branch of his vastly extended family ; and as far as we l 6 ve # ne another , no matter of what
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sect or party , so far we resemble Him . Had Abraham possessed more charity for man , and conficten £ e in God . $ , i ihi $ 7 time * he had not fallen into that snare
from which he barely escaped , A hasty judgment is generally both erroneous and harsh , and those who are most apt to form it , are generally the most difficult to be convinced of the truth . "
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Illustrations of Scripture * ( From an iaterleaved Bible . ) Levit . rv , 23 , and elsewhere . —A kid of Hie goats , ( sots Ten . riant , in his ^ Indian ilecreations / ' ) is a very common dish , and it is the only one vyhich the Hindoos produce in tolerable con , ditioa .
Proy , xx ? : l 15 . 18 *—The picture bete . given , of " . a good housewife is reinarkably , bat unde . signetfly , illustrated by Mungo Park , in his accotmt of the African womaii , who shewed him hos .
pitalttj ^ Sego , the song of whose ** maidensj" 64 by night , ' was so happily turned into English verse , by the late Duchess of Devonshire . Isaiah xxt . 7 . — ^ We saw' '
( in the desert near Koslof , in the Criroea ) " a great many buffaloes and camels ; several of the latter we met drawing in the two-wheeled carts , described before ^ a service for which I should have
thought them not so well adapted as for bearing burdens ; and although a chariot of camel ? is men * tioned by Isaiah , I do not remember having heard of such a practice elsewhere . "
Heber ' s MS . Journal , publish ed with Dr . Clarke ' s Travels P Russia * 4 to . I . 57 G * Dr . Clarke met with the earn * curiosity . Idem * 580 .
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110 Illustrations of Scripture *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/46/
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