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    In tlie Christiatl faith to cc have known the Father / ' th ^ t he assi gns their having this knowledge , in the verse from whence the above quotation is made , as the cause of his writing to them . And in each of the four succeeding verses , *< God / 9 , or " the Father / ' is again distinctly mentioned . When there - fore , the apostle says , I write

    unto you , fathers , because ye have known him that is from the beginning \ surely he must mean God , who only hath immortality in and of himself ! How very different from their practice , is that of many professors of Christianity , who fre - quently speak of Christ in such terras as are never applied to him by tie sacred writers , and seldom indeed make any plain mention of the Father . This cannot , howeve ^ be said with truth of these Epistles , unless it be of some of

    those which have been issued in the latter part of the last , or within the present , century * . See a Collection of the Epistles ( rom the Yearly Meetings of the People called Quakers , held in London , from 1 ^ 81 , to 1759 , inclusive . 1 vol . fbl . Published by the Society in 176 O * Or Devotional and Doctrinal Extracts , " from rfiem , in a regular scries , from the year 16 " 7 S , to 1810 , lately published * .

    In the following passage of the Epistle for 1811 , part of a text , which describes the death and resurrection of Christ , as fit emblems of ours , if we in reality become his disciples , is correctly quoted ^ but it is so improperly connected with what precedes it , * s in strfel grimrnatical construc-— — - t-:, ' - > . ( V ^ '' ¦ ' - . ' - - ¦ —

    * See a Review of this pamphlet , p . Gco . *> iu < . >( r- ¦ ¦ ¦•¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ' £ ©•

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    Remarks on the Quakers' Yeqrl \ E js pistle * 7 % §

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    tion to refer all , 4 hfltt 4 s thereto s p 6 k ert ] of , f qOpd ^ a < 3 if Godolra ^ died and not Christ ! t ^ B Js a ^ iganal favour /' , s ^ ys the Epbrfe /^ th ^ t '\ in various place ? ,, there ^ re coni - tinually fresh ^ proofs pf the prevjailenceof the love of Christy operating on the mind , and producing its genuine and blessed effect of conformity to his likeness . Humility , it is true , and self-denial

    must form a part of this likeness ; hut so doth , also , the real and fruitful love of God , and of our neighbour ; and * if we have beeft planted together in the likeness of his deathj we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection ,

    Rom . vi . 5 . The proper author of which resurrection , tlie apostle distinctly points opt in the pre * ceding verse , in these plain intelligible terms , whereby he assures us , that " Christ was raised upfrom the dead , by the glorious

    power of the lather ^ It has I know been maintained , by professed Christian jchurches , and even by some Protestant writers , whose works have been highly and general !} ' esteemed , that God actualiy ( d ied ; when Christ was crucified : as a . strike ing instance of the latter , see that well known work , the Spectator

    Vol . v . No . 356 , or Sir Richard Steele ' s Christian Hero . The Romish church openly professes to hold that Christ , the sooofuMarJ ^ was God , and th ^ t , she ought therefore to be styled < c Deipara /* ' or * the Mother of God , " and m ' such to be worshipped . ,, ; 1 I did not , however , expect , and I arri much co ^ cerpe ^ apjfipd ^( iiisuch a public dpcu # icf $ a ^ Wthi « i Epiistle , so ^( ajri ^ g a ^ p ^^ fb ofM ' t h ^ l > negliger \ fc ^ *> . ?}** ^^ PH ^ i ^ E p d } & £ the ' inadequate xiqyj ^ p ^ jtl | f t |^ |> is ^ >

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/15/