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ixiissidn , ) that , while Jesus was in tke wilderness receiving cumniu . nications of the kinds just enumerated , he might not be infallibly certain that they came from God , since he is supposed not to have . ascribed his temptations to their true cause , yet that infallible certainty must have been soon afterwards produced by the miracles
ci& performed * For it those miracles immediately followed upon his uttering certain words ^ he must have been thoroughly
satisfied that the impression made upon his mind , impelling him to utter those words , was produced b y God , to whose agency alone lie would attribute , and did attribute , the works which instantaneously followed ; and those works
confessedly adapted to convince spectators that what he taught in the name a » d by the declared authority of the Most Higbj really Came from him , were equally calculated to produce at least as firm a conviction of the same nature in
his own mind , if it could be supposed ( as it certainly cannot cm any just grounds whatever ) that he had before some doubt relating to that matter . And what he
taught and miracles were performed at his bidding , to prove to have proceeded from the Father of Lights , constituting part , if not the whole , of what he conceived himself to have received from him
during his stay in the wilderness ; the whole of what liad been then ^ nd there imported to him respecting his religion , would have been
infallibly ascertained to have come from The glorious Being to whom he ascrjbed it , and by whose power his miracles 'were wrought . John xiv . JO . et alibi . Your readers , Sir , arc now in
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408 On the Temptation of Christ . —Letter V ,
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possession of the greater part ( what I had to Communicate on subject which has engaged tfa * pens of many , whom I hope no * , will be disposed to charge mewi ' i ' I arrogance or rashness for presum ing to follow . My aim has been to avoid every thing like asperity in my treatment of the persons ( r sentiments of my predecessors Thus much , however , I beg per . mission to say , that after frequent re-examination of my scheme j ; still appears to me more consistent with the honour of tfie divine ck racter , more favourable to the
interests of Christian piety and morality , and better calculated to inspire just admiration nf our Lord ' s unequalled and glorious example , and silicon , fervent , and habitual gratitude ,-for hisdis , interested and invincible benevo . lence , than any other I have met with . I now deliver it tip to tie fate which may await it from fair and competent judges . It was at first intended to point out pracii . cal inferences dcducible from it ;
but the fulfilment of the intention must be postponed for the p resent . if it . should "be ultimately deemed needful to be done by , 'Sir , yours , &c . GEROS .
P . S . The following observation made bv the late Rt ' v . ^ West , in his " Dissertations on Mf Lord ' s Prayer , published in 17 ^ 8 , may not be thought improper W accompany the " extract in w body of this letter from Mr . " Kenrick ' s Exposition , Vol . in [ 384 . I shall , therefore , transcntt it , and it is as follows : H <» far the devil or any evil spmt , fluences the actions of mankjnj is a question not to be decide any facts or evidences that
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/20/
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