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Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XML , 41 %
would not deprecate such an interference of the magistrate , he displays , as Jortinsaid ofSouth , " the ' tratf ' -qg'tonistic style and intolerant spirit , the courage pf a champion , who chal lenges his adversary , and then calls upon the constable to come and help him /*
J . T . RUTT . P . S . Hylas > has , I hope , received ( p . 346 ) the satisfaction he required , and will hesitate no longer to regard it as a Christian ' s duty , neither to invite nor encourage , nor even to pass uncensured , such prosecutions as that against Mr . Carlile . On the question , whether a Christian should invite the
magistrate to patronize Christianity , by a largess from the State , Hylas and your Correspondent appear to agree . My friend will , I am sure , excuse me for folding a different opinion . All I have been able to discover in the New Testament , or to observe in the Churoh and the world , hove
served to convince me that Christians * instead of saying to the civil power , come over and help us , should rather adopt , as the words of truth and soberness , what was once the wild exclamation of a maniac , and say to the magistrate , in their religious capacity , Let us alone , what have we to do with thee ?
I take this opportunity to refer T . C . H . ( p . 335 ) to the third Volume of Biog . Brit . Ed . 2 . He will find there , in the article Chubb , much information on the subjects of his inquiry . That article is from the pen of Dr . Kippis , who , in his treatment of Deistiml writers , resembled Foster and Lardner rather than Clarkeor Leland .
These , so far as I have obseiVed , seldom mention Unbelievers , without some epithet which imputes to their writings an evil design ; a conduct of controversy , riot very unlike the injustice of compelling a prisoner U > plead in vinculis .
The Author of " Letters to a Protestant Divine" will , I am persuaded , readil y accept the correction of a pas * sage in his 2 nd Ed ., p > 231 . Dr Doddridge does not appear to have relied on A John v : 7 ; for he places the heavenly witnesses between brackets , as if unwilling to lose their support ^ yet imable to decide in favour or their authenticity . Ther t ^ xt to which > hfe
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attributed " so much influence on his mind , " was Rev . -fo 11 * I am Alpha and Omega , th& first and the last ; of which , he says in his note on thfe place , " This text has done more than any other in the Bible towards preventing me from going into that scheme which would make ma Lord Jesus
Christ no more thati a deifted creature . " Dr . Priestley remarks , th&t "the words a * e not in the best MSS . or ancient Versions . " They are exploded by Chnesbach and JVewcome ; and it must now appear extraordinary that a learned Trinitarian should Have
been satisfied to find the chief support of his system built on such a foundation as a disputed text in a book so controverted as the Revelation .
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ggm ^^^^^^^^^^ L Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XIII . John xvi . 7 : " If 1 go not away , the Comforter will not come unto you ; but , if I depart , I will send him unto you . "
f 1- ^ HIS jrromise of the Holy Ghost , JL [ Spirit , ] say the advocates for the Trinity , is made by Jesus in his proper character , without any reference to his Father , and intimates his own
power to shed that miraculous effusion upon his disciples . It could only , they argue , be an act of Omnipotence ; and thence they infer the divinity of him who made ( and fulfilled ) the
premise . > .:.:. » But in this prompt inference , which is certainly very convenient for the orthodox systeniy they advert not to the frequent instances in Scripture , wherein other messengers , angels or prophets
of the most High , when declaring his will and purposes to mankind , speak as broadly and unqualifiedly in the first person . One example , perhaps , may be thought sufficient to dispose of this notable inference , and lower the tone
'of complacency with which it is as < - sumed . Moses ( spake he not of Jesus as a Srop het 4 € like unto himself ?* ) in hia nal exhortations to the multitude ^ before the passage of the Jordan , ! de ^
dares , ( Deut . ii , 13 , ioo ^ y ^ ^ JUM coine to pass , if ye shall hfearktavdifrgently unto my commandment ^ which I command you this day , that / wilt give you the rain of your land in his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/31/
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