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with the religious public , and that is to get some wicked , unprincipled scribbler to pour forth a torrent of abuse on the work , and its author ! This , Mr . Editor has been at length done much to my satisfaction in the last Number of the Eclectic Review ^ and I cannot suppress my acknowledgment of gratitude . These honest Calvinists however , have thought it necessary for the ease of their consciences , to preface their article with this memorable
confesssion , wrung from them by the omnipotent energy of truth" Perhaps ^ aworkwhich has reached its thirteenth edition , and of which almost one hundred thousand
copies have been printed—has little either to fear from our censure , or to hope from our commendation /* How different the conduct of the late Bishop Porteus , who , in a note to the author on the first
publication of the work , wished it every success ; and how different the spirit of a venerable prelate , now living , distinguished for his defences of the Christian re vela .
tion—wbo _ , in a recent letter to the author , thankinghitn for both Sketch and Sequel , adds , May God prosper you in all your undertakings ! I am , Sir , If car ' s respectfully , J . EVANS .
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CH 1 LLINGWORTH . " The Bible—the Bible only /' No . XXIII . Belief in Scripture distinct from belief in Christianity . If a man should believe the Christian religion wholly and entirely and live according to it ^ such a m ^ n , though he shoukkriiot knpw
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or not believe the scripture to fee a rule of faith , no , nor to be the word of God , my opinion is , he may be saved ; and my reason is because he performs the entire condition of the New Covenant , which is , that we believe the matter of the gospel , and not that it is contained in these or these books . So that the books of scripture are not so much the objects of our faith , as the instruments of conveying it to our understandingand not so much of the Being of the Christian doctrine , a £ requisite to the well-being of it .
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No . XXIV * Sufficiency of any otoe of the Gospels * ^ -
Why does every die of thtfoiit evangelists iiitltle theft bbbk , The Gospel , ifariy necessary and essential part of the gospel were left out of it ? Can we imagine , that either they omitted something necessary out df ignor&nce , not knowing it to he necessary ? Or , knowing it to be so , maliciously
concealed it ? or , out of ftegligence , did the work they have undertaken by halves ? If none of these things can without blasphe . my be imputed to .. them , considering they were assisted by the
Holy Ghost in this work , then certainly it m 6 fct evidently follows , that every one of them writ the whole gospel of Christ * I mean all the essential and necessary parts of it . So that if we bad no
other book of scripture but one of them alone , we should not want any thing necessary to salvation ? And what one of them hath ftiore than another , it is only profitable ancj not necessary : neqessaj ^ in * dee $ to be believed , because re ^
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682 CJiillingworth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/22/
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