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those who cqonnit civil offences , yet heretiqs , both by v the church and Christian princes may be put to death . Is ! H ^ . thi s , persecu tion ? . Would not Roinan Catholics call it so if they wc ^ re the victims ? So fdsq jLuke xiy . 23 , the Rheimish translation is : " Compel them to eater , that my house maybe filled . ' * In the
anpotation we are told , " St * Augustine also referreth this compelling to the penal laws which Catholic Princes do justly use against heretics and schismatics , proving that they who are by their former profession in baptism subject to the . Catholic church and
are departed from the same after sects , may and ought to be compelled into the unity and society of the universal church again / * . Can- any one be so blind as not to see to what this leads ? If it be
supposed , that , these annotations were written , , by . the spirit of infallibility , ^ and if the sanction of the Roman Catholic clergy extends to them , apd ( that , by the same spirit , I see not hcrw tne , church of $ qsne can give up uie doctrine they contain , which is persecution . -If , Sir , you permit this to have a place in the Monthly Repository , it will " give an opportunity for any Roipaan Catholic , and particularly the writer of the letter who has been the occasion of these lines , to inform the
pubjjic , whether the sentiments of persecution contained in the above annotations , are now sanctioned by the lloman C atholic clergy or not . I for one should be glad to hear on this subject . A . BENNETT .
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< 4 % : * « v lyTPT being , satisfied . with the expla-Xji nation gerier ^ Uy givers of the blaspfeujy against the Holy Spirit , ( see M a ^ tv * uv , 32 . Martin . 28 , 2 Q . ) I beg leave tq submit the following qjjerieson the su bject to the qonsideriUoti of your readers , Jmd shall be fyankfuj , . t ^^ any . one who Will canflicfly . answer thein . , .
^ Hav e , _ w , e sufficient authority titan ) , the ^ 0 ^ 5 u passages to conclud e Ibatjany ojf ikp Iewi » had , at / the time gfe en iour l ^ rd ^ uttere ^ the word s , # » W ( i > g * to $ { % \ * $ ? Jy Spirit j isi& * mH ^ w ^] P ^ w 9 Wv mw *
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2 . As the , Jew * ha ^ l ^ no ^ beeii prc-i viously warned of a s «* 7 which wquld be unpardonable , if they ha 4 alreatly uttered this blasphemy when -trm condemnation to . which it exposed them was declared , would pot their
total exclusion . from forgiyeness be the same as proceeding 3 ga ^ n > t , men . on the ground of ; an expostja ' efa law ? Is it not mope consistent wi # v the character ot J e ^ us and , the ^ condwiCt of ( iod towards his creati > y ^ s » to suppose the , above passages contain an awful warning , thaja to construe , then * *
as expressive of the penalty qf a crifiae already com quitted f 3 . Vv ere not the most malignant expressions which the Jews hadr ^ Ut-^ ered at the tim e spoken against ; Jes i | personally , against tJ ; e ¦ Son ; -ofr man % for they aid not a ^ l npi $ - that ^ jbe had the spirit of God ? ,: I 3 , it oot
contrary to the whole - # GGO \> nt ta say tlje blasphemy tliey ( : hac ^ vitt ^ red w ^ jsi directed against the Spirit $ did thgjg not evidently ii > teo 4 ta ^ degrade | he character , and invalidate i ^ e . , preten * § ions of Jesus ; . was > n 4 $ y ; tj ^ is their whole object , and is it not tt > e ^ nteiv ^ tion that characterises jiie action ^ ttnr
der a rnoral view L ( . . - i > -j r > /! : A 4 . If the blasjphemy they ha < i a ^ r ready uttered was agains , t tqe ^^ pitit , how are we tos distinguish betw ^ f ^ their speaking against the Son of rn a ^ and tneir sneaking against the Hojy Spirit ? ' .
5 , Are we not told that , the tjoly Spirjt vvaf not given till Christ \ y ^ glorified : John vHi- 39 * Act ^ ii , 33 * and could ttiey blaspheme against ^ he Holy Spirit before ; it wa 3 givet > in ^ fce sense in which the expression ia ^ used in the evangelical writings ? , -
6 . The Editors of tne Jnaproved Version , in a note on the place , say * i € They who , ascribed . the miracles 0 ? Jesua and his apostles to demoniap s ^ agency , resisted the strongest possibly evidence of the pt ^ rjstian rebgipa ,, # nd w , ere therefore \ incapable pf being
converte 4 to the belief of , it . " 3 uti can this observation be just , if r ^ s ^ ticlr ^ d tQ the miracles wrough t duri ng our Lord * s ( personal ^ inisjay ; for he saicj to ki ^ Apostle * , W ( $ k * % bfrf li ^ vetjti on ^ ^ qte . th ^ wqrk& hat , J 1 , 49 sha ^ i he do ^ Jap , an 4 greater , wprK % than these j&all he ? da 0 because % J gft
Jffl !? my Father ?? ' r Jfftov x iy , M * ffWtfi ? % 5 t « F 5 ^ * « i mtwwbjm
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Queries respecting Jhe Blasphemy against t } ie Hply Spirit * § M
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/13/
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