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not that we believe there is any divinity or power in them for which we respect them—uor that any thing is to be asked of them—nnor that any trust is to be placed iu them , < & the Heathens of old trusted in their idols ; but because the honour iriven to them is referred to the
prototype or thing represented . From the dawn of reason , the Catholic has been taught that to God alone is supreme adoration due , that we must worship him as our Creator , Redeemer and last end , that Jesus Christ is our only Saviour , and that nothing is granted to mankind
but through the merits of his death and passion . We are expressly forbidden by our religion , as you will see in the catechism , to worship idols , or to give any thing else whatsoever the honour which belongs to God . On no consideration
can we pray to relics , crucifixes or images . It would-be consummate / oily to address supplications to irrational and inanimate objects . This is the language of the catechism ; it is dear to the meanest capacity ; it conveys the Church doctrine iu terms that cannot be
misunderstood . It is strongly impressed upon us in our youthful age by our pastors ; and the lesson is so consonant to religion and to common sense , as to be indelibly engraven on the mind and feelings , " Let me now appeal to your candour and ask , whether the Catholic clergy ( if
they really wished and intended to train up youth in the notion and practice of idolatry ) would take such effectual pains in public and in private ta give them a contrary bias , and to implant a deeprooted horror of any derogation from the honour which is due to God ? Those
impressions and instructions which I received in early life , I have carefully delivered to my flock . I have invariably taught , as in duty bound , that they could not , no , not even to save their lives , pay
divine honours to any crucifix or image —that to worship for God that which is not God , would be a crime of the blackest die , deserving the curse of heaven and earth . .
" Disclaiming , then , as every . Catholic must , the odious charge of idoteujydetesting the horrid crime as sincerely &s any of our calumniators can possibly do , we call upon every honourable ana Christian heart not to condemn us utk * heard , but to study our religion , before
they pretend to refute it . We caution them , as they will have to answer for It before the Judgnumt ^ aeat of Christ , to desist bearing false witness againat to * and to remember , thfct he who broftk * out one off ttae ten commandmontB will offend agaiwrt >< iff . ? i f \ * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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T / te passage in Josephus telating to Christ 447
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Sm , Map 22 , 1820 . r | ^ HE discovery of truth is what JL every member of society is bound to assist in ; and as the following lines are dictated purely by that object , I have no doubt they will have a place in a Journal which has the first claims to
liberality and fairness . ; The grand test of the truth of Christianity , is the authenticity of the miracles : in ascertaining , therefore , the soundness of their fuith , Christians should vigilantly examine the testimony by which those miracles are supported . Of the various kinds of
testimony applicable to that point , none is considered to be so unobjec tionable , and to merit so much dependence , as the testimony of Anti ^ Chris ^ tians ; I mean admissions made by such persons of the truth of the miracles : and the additional Value possessed by such sort of evidence is founded on
mis reason ; that the enemies of Christianity would not have admitted the truth of the miracles on any other grounds than a decided conviction of the fact , and the absolute inutility of disputing it ; although , at the same time , they would gladly deny the miracles if they had the shadow of a pretence so to do .
Josephus is one of those Anti-Christians in whose writings we find some mention of the resurrection of Christ ; and , if I mistake not , the confirmation of that miraculous occurrence by this writer is deemed of thte highest
importance by Christians . But it appears to me that the genuineness of this passage in Josephus's writings has a suspicion attached to it which demands the deepest scrutiny ; a suspicion which must be destroyed before any just weight can be placed
on the evidence of this autfoor . It is , therefore , in the hope that some theologian well read in the Testimonies of Christianity , may explain tide mystery , that I have ventured to mention the
subject : and when it is considered of what vast importation it is that the miracle to which thjs testimony ap * plies , should tie clearly established * I trust that some person who hag well
investigated the subject , m * y ^ afetd * j » answer to the followipg # b $£ cv < rtlo » s . The paseage in questio % ^« dfl to be writteh by Josephua / $ jty ttHuw >» to Christ , j * to the foHpwW effect ; "This was theChwtwliofiteewrfcin
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1820, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2491/page/3/
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