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ture * ' * with the talents" we possess , or as being < c omnipotent . " 0 n the contrary , it declares the Father , on the authority of Christ himself , to be <; the only true GodJ * and Jasus Christ to be his messenger , the sent" of the Father . And consistently with this , it concludes with a text , which describes the resurrection of our Lord Jesus from the dead , as being brought about , not by his own power , but by that of " the God of Peace ?'
When these Epistles are considered as given fprth by the collective body , of the same Christian church , within one year , the contrast they exhibit is very remarkable , and must have had
some more adequate cause than tbe circumstances Pacificus has disclbsed , respecting the unusual manner , in , which the former Epistle was hurried through the
Meeting . ( Vol . vi . p . 21 . ) Whether the persons who prepared the latter Epistle , abstained from the introduction of similar matter , in consequence of the -strictures on th , e former in your journal , I have no means of knowins . Nor is it
at all material , as 1 trust , to whatever cause it is to be attributed , ? . ¦ • ¦ » it may be justly considered as evincing a conviction , that the principal passages objected to in
the former Epistle , were unscriptural and erroneous ; and did not arise from a pusillanimous apprehension of the consequences of openl y avowing such doctrines ^ under a continued belief they ^ ere sound and scriptural .
But although the Epistle for * 8 lI , is not chargeable with such glaring , errors as the formeiy it is nevertheless liabl ? to considerable ex ^ ptions , as to ambiguity ot
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language , and tbe imperfect manner in which some of its quotations from scripture , exhibit the sense and spirit of the passages referred to An instance of the latter kind occurs in the application of the first text which is quoted . It is from the General Epistle of Jude , ( v . 20 ) , which is addressed * to them that are sanctified by God the Father , and preserved in Jesu * Christ , and called . "'
To these the Apostle speaks thus , in the verse quoted . — " But ye beloved , building up yourselves on your most holy faith' '—^ adding in the next verse this exhortation , Ce Keep yourselves in the love of God , looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ , unto life
eternal . Whereas the compilers of this Epistle , refer the act of build . ing up ^ not to those whom they addressed , after the example of the apostle , but to their own counsel to their absent brethren . ; ' We
have again , say they , " felt encouragement to believe that we may thus contribute , through the blessing which is permitted to crown the humble endeavour of the disciple , to builfl you up Q on your most holy faith / in Christ Jesus our Lord . Receive then our
cordial salutation iti Aim ; the living stone , ' the * chief corner-stone , elect , precious ; ' arid come to him , that ye may be c 'built-up a spiritual house , an holy priesthood . * These are , indeed ^ '' continues the
Epistle , " sacred expressipns 3 not lightly to be adopted . * ' Nor should they be so severed from the sacred context , as to exhibit by that
means imperfectly the sense of the passage . The apostle in the text quoted and referred to in the margiip , 1 ' . Pete * in 4 ^ 5 , 6 , describes Christ under th&feimilitud * ¦¦ - ¦ ' ) I * i / .. . . .. . . ' '
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^ Remarks on the QuakersYearly Epistle . 717
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/13/
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