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ideas , they came . without design * and consequently without a . design jng <^ use . This : is the cckaclusinK wWci * tW Jmtfsb legislator sets aj&te , fey representing Jehovah as planning this fair system of things before he actually produced it /*
-r-Pp . 21 r-22 . Dr . Jones ^ e ^ l ^ ati ^ ^ f tWMbsaic accouij ^ y ^ | || e fajft . pt ^ m ari is ^ 0 ^ altogether ii # ? ei * J ^ ut . Jpk ' ^ Dtu 3 tratloii of his theory . are t ^ th smgiilar » u # bpld . He , t&k # s the history to be aller gorieal , and all the events to bfe
symbolic . His system is , that the tree of fife , in the Garden of Eden , was the symbol of moral purity in the immediate presence of God , that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the symbol of the marriage state , that the eating of its fruit meant the first act by which Adam recognized Eve as his wife , and that the serpent is the symbol of desire , planted in the human frame , but which carried to excess
becomes criminal passion or sensuality . In the curse on the serpent , the author considers a promise of th § Messiah to be couched . cc due time the seed of the woman appeared . In the accomplishment of his noble end ., he was followed by a brood of vipers who stung his heel . The garden of Gethsemane , tfre judgment-seat of
Pilate , and the Mount of Calvary in particular , witnessed ths venom of their maUce . But supported by the power otf Goo , and animated , by the glorious i&r ward that awaited him at the right hand of his heavenly Father ^ he persevered ; and the head of the - serpejxt received a mortal wound . *'—Pp . 36 , 37 .
The serpent was universally worshiped in the Pagan World ^ and the author adopts the theory * of Bryant , whom he Wg ^ lypraisea , that tlie i # i 7 racles of Moses and , the plagues of
Egy pfc iVm » desjgpied , ; axnongat othe * ends , to put dishonour upon this spe + cies of idolatry . > By the death threatened to Adam ' s disobedience , Bfr . Jdptes understands exctosSott # i 6 ni theita » ftifcdtat 6 presence of God * "Me turns the account of the
fall against the doctrine of natural *< % ?* $ ?> rfpi ^« ihat % ^ ^ uilty < Mar $ a , . < p » > e pufc Wto ^ 9 ^» ent « # we mwmi w 4 « r « T sgpctive sgefli , urfplies . a , prinqlDj ^ in human jiai ^ re , reason , pr comwmcQ , which is directly hosftite to immoral
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propensities r i To fiie misiiterpreta tion of the whafe allegory he attributes the origin of the rdoctiaAe of tvvo on . posite eternal prirtciples , the one good and the bther evil . iHe bonsiders that the Measiah r ^ the ^ sefedtof the woman ^ 411 bruise the % erpe ^ t ^ 8 'ltead i by mbl
< Juing all ptvssibns / that are merely animal ^ and * b y vei&Btinng the cormtK tible part of human nature ; that our Lord at h } s steond ^ camingwill exercise literacy the ¦ function ^ of . a king ; that this ^ earthy renovated after some nays * . terious convulsions ^ aad rendered paradisiacal , is to bes the > theatre of his power ,, and that here « he wise a ^ d good in a glorified state ate to take up their abode . ! ! ' °
The ingemous author imagines that Paul ,, in the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans , makes the Mosaic narrative the bask of his reasoning , substituting sin as another name for the serpent . We cannot deny that
there is some plausibility in the conjectmre , but it really appears to us that fancy ka& carried away the writer far beyond tie bottofc of sobriety , in the following * alTe ^ oriteal illustration :
* The Chtistiah law > inasmuch as it penetrates the innermost recesses , reach ^ mg even the hectrtj condemns or acquits those under its jurisdiction , not from their outward actions , but , from the motives Which gave them birth , far surpasses
all other laws in excellence and , efficacy . Its superiority to the law of Moses is set forth in the following passage : ' For what the law could not do , in that it was , weak through the flesh , God , having seat his own Son in the likeness of sinful
fieah , condemned siafc > for sinning with the flesh / tiere again sin and flesb are personified ^ arid represented as having a criminal intercourse with each other . r $ h&f > however , conduct their intrigues with ! a © much secresy , that the law ; or the f legitiiuate husband of the flesh ,
though convinced of their guilt , had no mean % « sufficient ? to - arraign and punish the * offend 6 rai . * Ebe hxvvj we are tdld , was weak through . th& flesh . By which We ^ re' to undefstand" thai ?^ throughihe imperiection - of feuraana discernment , u cj »« ld not \ fteso ^ i * !* r ! me ^ that ^ ete the
only intended rib ^© dlftfed ^ n H < a * t > not ^ upS ^^ rmiW ^^^ ^ ^ jptim evidence , feuchtihnig ^ v&aat £ > done ' m secret . Thianeither ^ belaw of M oseatior any Mmaa ^« la * r ^ i *^^ - ***/ & ord ^ r «> "flBUiyt ^ vi iW 6 P ^» * 0 ™ 3 scfentt Grea * or , js ^^ ifa |^» i WI ^ I »» j ^ jP ^ J ^^ « appoiiiUaentt witteifl 6 » lA : iiwst * lfls fw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/40/
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