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s « ited , ' that the nations worshi p * pcd a beast which rose ovit of the sea , on whose head was written
Blasphemy . All that dwelt on the earth worshipped him , excepting those whose names are written in the book of life . Let the Revelations be read from the 13 th
chapter , and let it be particularly remarked , that in the middle of the I 4 th are these words : And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven , having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them
that dwell on the earth , tyc . saying with a loud voice * Fear God tnd give glory to him , for the hour of his Judgment is come ; and worship him that made heave ? i and € arth 9 and the sea 9 and the
fountains of water , § c . What can we here understand , but that they are blessed who had not been guilty of the sin with which the great body of the Christian world
had defiled themselves , and that by walking naked and exposing ikeir shame is meant , being guilty of worshipping some other God besides Jehovah ?
And let us once more revert to Genesis , where we read , And God said , who told thee thou wast naked , hast thou eaten the fruit which was forbidden thee ? To be naked , and to have sinned in
the way here referred to , are synonimous : they point to the sin of idolatry , I think , therefore , I am warranted in concluding , from these very words , which in their literal sense mean nothing , that it
is intended to represent , that Adam * nd his wife had been guilty © f idolatry , and that for this sin alone they lost the indulgences which tirey enjoyed in their earthly paradise . 1 know not what impression the observation * previously
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made , united with these corroborating circumstances , may make upon your readers , but , as far as presumptive evidence can go towards establishing a fact , may I not think that little short of proof has been adduced that The sin
of Adam was idolatry ? And now , let the object of the mission of the Anointed be considered , the solemn declaration he made to the scribe , Hear , O / sraeL the Lord our God is one
Lord , and thou shalt worship the Lord thy God * Spc . ) the whole tenourof his practice , and the whole strain of bis preaching , together with the sentiment of the apostle
Paul , that as by man came death , the punishment of the highest offence against the Majesty of heaven * so by man came also the resurrection of the dead , which is the reward of those who
worship God inspirit and in truthwe discover a beautiful whole contained in the sacred volume , clearly traced in the first and distinctly marked in the last of its divisions ; and we learn that the great object of that volume is to establish the
worship of the o ^ e living and true God , who will hot give his glory to another , and who wjli mark with distinguished favour those who honour him as God , and are obedient to the clear vote * of his wor < d . I . XV .
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Calvin and a Calvinist * A correspondent , who gives us his name , if we choose to make use of it , and on whose testimony we can rely , informs us that he lately heard the Bishop of London deliver a charge to the clergy at Bishop Stortford , which he com-
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Calvin and a Calvinist . 547
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/23/
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