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the same , and jail the infamy which belonged to the impostor is transferred Uy mere association to the meek and holy Je&uu Jt mil continue the subject ili the next Number . r - J . JONES . P . S . The Improved Version in Tan .
iii . lb v correctly expresses the meaning of the original ; but a Correspondent for July , | ' j £ . 396 , ] | nsome remarks on this passage , says , " It would seem a somewhat superfluous observation
from the Apostle to tell Timothy that the inspired part of the Scriptures was profitable , &c . I answer , the remark will appear most necessary if we attend to the meaning of the Apostle : he alludes to men deceiving and deceived , who forged certain writings ,
and ascribed them to some of the * prophets as if divmely inspired . Against these impostures Paul cautions Timothy and others ; and lays down a criterion to distinguish them from the genuine words of God . The forgeries of the impostors tended at best to fill
men with the pride of superior wisdom ; whereas the inspired writings made them wise unto salvation \ the former , again , were profitable only for their base authors ; the latter were profitable for instruction , &c . Irenaeus a « d Tertullian assure us . that the Gnostic
deceivers professed to teach profound mysterfes , and received in return from their deluded votaries , large sums of money . The phraae npoq € Xey % ov should be rendered , " for detection , " or " exposure . " It points to those forgeries , and intimates that they should be tried by the tnie word of God , the
simplicity arid tendency of which could not fail to esfcpose their falsehood and inutility .
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jpropef means ^ for spriea <| ii % lJni | et < i ^ Unit ^ rW places of " wo ^ i ^ pilpi ^ wich . Though many ha ^ J 6 ihe
reading and explaining the Scriptures , for prayer and occasional , if not regular , preaching . If the minister could not always attend , he woukj , as often as he was able ; and there are persons in the Octfigon congregation fully qualified to conduct a religions service with good effect . There are many of the environs of Norwich where , if an
attempt were made , many might be collected to hear , who would afterward join our societies . We dp not pay sufficient attention to the instruction and feelings of the poor . For them the gospel is a peculiar blessing . In the neighbourhood of Norwich is
Sarsmgham , vyhere occasional service should be held . This might be cafjrfed on by ^ the ministers of Haptori and of Norwich , without any inconvenience . Hapton is supported by ah enddwment , and is an evidence that that is not the best mode of strengthening the Dissenting interest .
It is to be regfetted that the school at Palgrave , formed by Mr , B ^ feauid , jfi » $ for a long time a semiji&y for ! E > iss ^ j ^ ing youth , is not ndw occupied fbi * % fi& same purpose , as it woul 4 jffiv&permanency to a society , at rKss , ^ Hi < M
though respectable from the character of its attendants , has few supporters . The con ^ re ^ tida ; woukl be an ^ CTee able addition to the instructor ' s occupation , arid the salary would not % unacceptable to most IHssentiiig teach ers , t am not acquainted MVith $ &
state of the country between DJss and Cambridge ; at the lattejr p l ^ fe ^ 1 ^*^ heard a discouraging account ox flp congregation at Soham . But , how i ^ Cambri ^ cha « g 6 d sixk ^ iW m ^ tf Rob ^ t idbihWn i ¦ vi ^ ' ^ mmm ^
now ^ aAishfed froiii'the ^ tHHnfiBtt ? iS ^ S 8 S |» WE tha * i £ ^ re ^ ,, - ^ 1 ^^^ aba % ^ i- bni 'W ^ M # C- ^ i l Ejm Fordhani , it c ^^ eiul wb eTi thek
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Remarks of an Unitarian Traveller . No . IV . SlK , NORWICH has much to please the lover of truth , and much to be done that may be effected . Tltere is a spirit of 'iinqttiry and an activity attiong the Umt&i-fans of thiat diiy , especially among the yottng ^ i&tat 4 & * them Wb highest difedit : ¦ '^ TFhd ^ ptote ^ of wtoti $$ ; m&r $ Wj 0 < g % * hj ^ # feitt 5 # al appearance , c ^ nhot faU p ii ^^ the trafveH ^ r /^ - ^ 0 : ¦ wkffi rt ^ w # l 3 r # < S » , wii ^^^^ l , ^^ . !^* S&i * ^ f cfl ^ P ^^^
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R&narJes of an Unitarian Traveller . fin . IV . 645
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 645, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/17/
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