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} , cwed them out cisterns , broken cisterns , that can hold no water / ( jerem . ii . 13 , and see the whole chapter . ) if they had not followed
' wizards that peep and that muttej , ' ( Isa . viii . lp . ) and ' gone after other gods ; ' if they had not pored upon the glimmer of theology , till they themselves are stupified , and their eyes are become so weak , that
they no longer think it safe , perhaps in most cases no longer find it possible , to look , at the strong light , which beams with such brightness from so many parts of
scripture , nor , which in all controverted questions is still better and more decisive , \ to look at the broad and open day , which spreads itself over the whole of scripture , without the smoky piece of glass , with which every child , in all Christian countries , is furnished as he begins to read the Bible * .
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Dr . Clarke calls these pictures ' barbarous idols , ' and such they certainly are ; but by no means barbarous enough for the subject
to which they refer ; for no Russian bugh ^ or idol , that ever was , or ever will be , invented , can possibly do justice to the gross contradiction contained in the proposition which asserts , that iL three
persons , each of whom is perfect God make together only one God . ' ' Transubstantiationis a fool to it . 1 am , &c . TMEODOTUS .
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On Pictures of the Trinity > in Dr . Clarke ' s Travels . 403
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there are many who willingly cast the inestimable treasure of two revelations behind their backs . But there is a multitude of others , whom it is the height of injustice to rank with the worldlyminded , men disposed by their piety , their virtue , and their sense to receive with thankfulness whatever is good , and true , and comes from God , who yet , when they see the scriptures cumbered with so much vain-serving / ( Luke x . 40 . ) and so much silly believing , by those who call themself the friends , but , in reality , are the enemies of G 6 dy cannot possibly do otherwise than account them * foolishness . * True itis that all these incumbrances , all that men call the peculiar doctrines of revelation , are no more than so many peculiar indentions ( Eccles . vii . 29 . j sought out by their own weak , or wicked , imaginations ; and that it is the duty of every one of us to sift the wheat-from the chaff . But who is equal to the task ? more especially after having been taught from his infancy to ' call evil good , and good evil , to put darkness for light , and light for darkness , bitter for sweet , aud sweet for bitter ?* flsa . v . 20 . ) AH things considered , it seems easier , in a manner , for ' a camel to go through the eye of a needle / particularly when we recollect that whoever makes the attempt , if he make it in the sight of others , is sure to find himself in the situation of Dr . Paley ' s unfortunate Pigeon , who , being more hardy or hungry than the rest ; ventures openly to leave the chaff for the wheat , which the others no sooner see , than they all instantly 11 / upon him , and tear him to pieces . ( Elern . Mor , Prffl . bt iii . ch . 1 . )
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* The Bible teaches nothing but ' the one thing needful , ' a perfect and an upright life . This is settled beyond all contradiction , in the few following plaintexts , Eccles . ii . 13 . Micah vi . 8 . tot xix . 1 IS—23 . xxii , 3 6—40 . Acts ? 34 > 35 . Jam . i . 27 . And the more tt is lead and understood , the more evident it becomes that the book , in eveiy other part of it , points to nothing else but purity of life , and that ' the grace ° / Godhath appeared , that is , the revelationof God hath been made , < to all men' Jew as well as Gentile , for no other pupose ^ under heaven , than that of teaching all to deny ungodliness and * or % lusts , and to live soberly , Hghte-° ^ ly , and godly , in this present life , ' Jn cer tain assurance that there will be Mother in which * qyery one , ' without Ie $ pect of persons , ' will receive accord-JJS to that he hath done in the body , ^ ether it be good or bad , * ( Tit . ii . 11 , V ^ or . v . 10 . ) the ° \? e se nsu ^ Jty ? the covetuousness , ^ Pnde , and the vanity of man , a life s re and holy as ; that required b y the fore IS revoltin S « This alone thereto . Is a sufficient « stumbling-block , ' ne worldl y-minded . And hence
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/19/
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