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as to the Eastern wise men bv that star ; and our Saviour declares himself anointed to preach the gospel to the poor , Luke iv . 18 .
Then surely to their capacity . They who after him first taught it , were 5 other wise unlearned men ; they who before Huss and Luther first reformed it , were for the
meanness of theirconchtion called , The Poor Men of Lyons ; and in Flanders , at this day , Les Gueu& which is to say , Beggars . There * for ^ e are the scriptures translated into every yulgar tongue , as beiqg iield in main matters of belief and
salvatKHi ^ plain and easy to the poorest ; and such no less than their teachers , have the Spirit to guide them , in all truth . John jr iv . 06 , and xvi . 13 . Hence we may conclude , if men be not all their life-time under a teacher to
learn lagici natural philosophy , ethics WK « iathft « n ^ UCs whicU are more 4 Jffictjilt , that certainly it is not necessary to the attainment of Christian knowledge , that men should sit all their life long at the
feet of a pulpited divine : while Jhe , a lollard indeed over bi 3 elbow cushion , in almost the 7 th part of . 40 . or 50 years , teaches them scarce half the principles of jreii « gion : and . his i > h # ep oft times ait
the while tQ as little purpose of benefiting as the sheep in their pews at Smith field ; and for the most part , by some sinaony or other bought and sold like tlwm ; or , if this comparison be too low , like those women , J Tftm . ijj . 7 .
ever , learning vndne < vtr < attaining : yet not so jiiueh througbrtheir , Q \ vn fault as through the unskilful $ nd inarnethodical ( teaching of their pastqr , teaching here arid there at random , * mt of this or that text , as Ills tease or fancy , and oitptmes
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as his stealth guides him . See * ing then that Christian religion may be so easily attained , and by meanest capacities , it cannot
be much difficult to find ways , both iiow ( he poor , yea all men , may be soon taught what is to be known pf Christianity , ^ nd they who teach them reeom penned . . First , if ministers of their own
accord , who pretend that they are called and sent to preach tb « e ga $ r pel , those especially who have no particular flock , would imitate our Saviour and his disciples , whp went preaching through the villages , not only through the cities , Matth . ix . 35 * Mark vi . £ . Luke
xiii . 22 . Acts jsui . % 5 9 and £ here preached , to . the proor ^ s w ell as to the rich , lookipg fpy © o r ^ compence but in heaven i John iv *^ 35 , 36 . Look on itikc jfieldb , J \ m they are totefe alro&dy to harvest ; < w 4
he that reaneth recei ^ etk waves . he that reapetA reqw&etk . wages , and gatherethfruU unto Uft eternal . This iwas $ h $ ir wages . But they will jsoon reply , we ourselves have jiqt wherewithal ; \ v , bo 8 &&H hear the ^ haKges of our jounaey ?
To wliom it may ps . soon be answered , that , in lHtelihtooA , irfjey are not poorer than -they jwho did thus : and if they ihave not ; t&e same faith which thaae disciples had to trust in G ^ d and the . prpmise of Christ far . their
w&uUeiiaiice astbey . did , and yet int ^ wii c i&tQ jthe jaiinistry without a ay livelihood ofith ^ ir ovy-n , , ( hey Cftst themselves into a miserable-ha ^^ rd or temptation , an 4 ofttim ^ i iflto a » mope rai&erable necessity , ^ ithef to
staruc or to please tbejir paymasters rather than Gpd :: and gyeNM&j&P cause . to suspect ^ that they ca ^ dieitber / Hailed nor sept ixom frkfiw to preach ihe \^ ord , bul / ro ^ n telow ? by ihe instinct of ibeir ^ pwH h wgQ * ?
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SOd , John Milton .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/40/
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