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      1 . The whole of the apostle ' s ad * dress , especially from the ISth verse , is an enumeration and description of those spiritual blessings and privileges derived to Colossian converts by or through Christ . Indeed , this is the main design of the whole Epistle , with suitable exhortations to duty .

      g . The apostle writes these things to the Colossians , as he says , " lest any man should beguile them with enticing words , and spoil them through philosophy and vain deceit , after the tradition of men , after the shadows of the vt

      world , and not after Christ . By which , and the worshiping of angels , &c , the apostle seems to allude to the doctrines of the Gnostics ; on which Mr . Scott has judiciously remarked in a note in his excellent Discourse . * Now

      it is well known , that the Gnostics , by their 7 t \ ygujfjt , oc meant the joint influences or fulness of their subordinate powers , which they held in great estimation and veneration . As the great apostle , in his masterly , eloquent , and , in some places , sublime

      comparison ( in his Epistle to the Hebrews ) between the Jewish High Priest and Christ , sets forth the pre-eminent and exalted character of the latter , saying , as it were , to the Jews , " If you value yourselves on having a High Priest appointed by God himself to this high

      office , with all its sacred privileges and functions , and are still partial fo this and other parts of ritual law : behold , I will shew you a High Priest of divine appointment , who , in every respect , is infinitely superior to that you or your fathers could boast ; who , after having performed with sinless obedi-* Sermon before the Southern Unitarian Societ y , by Rev . Russell Scott , of Portsmouth . R . S . See Mon . Repos . V . 251 , 252 . Ed .

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      —* m I . Mr . Jefferson ' s Plan of a College for Virginia , in a Letter to Mr . P . Carr , President of the lioard of "Trustees . [ From Niles ' s Weekly Register , published at fealtimore . No . 3 of Vol . X . ( for 1816 , ) pp . 34—36 J O Dear Sir , the subject of the academy 6 r college proposed to be established m neighboctrliooa , I promised the

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      ence and exactness , all the high and sacred duties of his station , is entered into the holiest of holies , even heaven , where he ever lives to make intercession for us . ' So , in the present case .

      the spirit of his Epistle to the Colo * - sians is : " Are there those who pretend to teach you , that there are subordinate divine agents commissioned or capable , either in their separate or collective characters or influences ,

      which they style 7 f \ yj g oufjccz , to instruct you ? Behold , in Christ alone all these divine characters and influences concentred by the appointment of God himself , who was pleased that in him this , and more than this 7 T \ y } PWfJL ( &

      should inhabit or dwell . " Thus it appears to me , that the apostle ' argument is rendered more apt and complete , and has in it a beautiful and energetic propriety . And both these cases appear to me as admirable instances and illustrations of the argumentum ad

      homines . I think it right thus hastily to say thus much by way of some apology for , and abatement of the hasty , and , perhaps , too severe censure 1 past on the New Version , which I should most certainly have been more cautious of doing , had I , as I ought to have done , consulted the able and learned

      Commentator Mr . P . But I really did not recollect , at the time , that he was , where he ought not to be , on my shelf . Perhaps , after all , I have been burning day-light , and the learned

      Cotnitterttator is on your table . If so , I have ray pains ( and justly ) for my reward , I remain , with great respect and esteem , dear Sir , Yours truly and sincerety , F . WEBB . Z . Cottage , 24 th March , 1809 . The Rev . Mr . Seaward , Poole .

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      trustees that I would prepare for them a plan , adapted , in the first instance , to our slender funds , but susceptible of being enlarged either by their owni growth , or by accession fropa otheir quarters . I have long entertained the hope that this our native state would take up the -subject of education , Ana make an establishment , either with or Without mcorpor&tioii into that of

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/7/