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mental powers cease . From that place I return home , having completed my journey . jBefore I conclude , I mil make a few remarks on other classes of
religionists , having confined my observations chiefly to Unitarians . The evangelical elergy very much increase . They are chiefly Can tabs . Most of them preach extempore . In that they
furnish Unitarians a good example . Another plan they adopt is worthy of general imitation : they divide their congregations iuto districts , or sections , on all of which they make
freguent calls ; the , poor are never overlooked . Many of them have week-day lectures , or - expositions . These are well attended ,-and by this means many who had followed the Methodists , have joined the Establishment . Those who formerly were called the liberal clergy , mix hih les wit
now gTory princip h their Arminian creed ; and their anger against the evangelical clergy is greater than against Dissenters , if we except Unitarians , which is the sect every where spoken against . Methodism Spreads rapidly among the lower orders , and is vepy eagerly embraced by those who had-led vicious lives ; but among the better informed of its adherents ,
there is a spirit of insubordination shewn to the authority of the Conference ; and besides the increase of Kilhamites , a new division has arisen in the West of England . Calvinism is
losing some of its forbidding aspect by the milder system of Dr . J . P . ( Smith ; a gentleman whom , though unknown t © jaae even by sight , I . much respect from the open and liberal manner in which I am assured he has spoken of and defended those who have been
unjustly attacked . The higher Calvi-Aists are not less offended at Dr . J . P . Smith , than the narrow-minded Baptists ^ are with Mr . Hall , for vindicating mixed communion . The zeal for civu and religious Jibertv which once
distin-^ u / Bhed the Baptists , haa lately much lessened , and their chief merit at present h in the support they ^ ivc , and nave created in others , for ; their excellent institutions , in the East Indies . Their attention to correct translations
of the Scriptures into all languages , 4 eaerves the highest praise of all , as well as of an , tJNITARIAJ ? T ^ AVEfahESL ^^^^^^^ PP ^^^^ y ™ » * . ¦ . * Vf
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Ci | 6 Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XV *
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Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XV . Matthew xxvi . 39 : " If it be possible , let this cup pass from me . YOUR Correspondent L . J . j . ( p . -584 ) questions the relation of Christ's agony and prayer in the
garden , as the disciples were at the distance of a stone ' s cast from him , and asleep , and could not report , because they could not witness , the scene . * ' Who , " he says , €€ did witness it > How came this private affair to be made public ? " And reasons on the
transaction from Luke ' s account of it , which is a curtailed and deficient one , when compared with that of Matthew . That evangelist ( so also Mark ) relates that Jesus said to his disciples ,
" Sit ye liere while I go and pray yonder $ " but that he took with him Feter and'the two sons of Zebedee , and said unto them , " Remain here , and watch with me ; " and that Jesus went
forward a little , and prayed in the language of the text . It is ' not probable that in the anguish of his mind he would , in a fervent deprecation of his allotted sufferings , express it m a whisper , nor that the little advance he had made from those who were to
remain and watch with him , would prevent their hearing this commencement of his supplication to the Almighty , before they were overpowered with sleep . That this was the whole
of his address , could not , from its brevity , be imagined , even if the supposition were not negatived by his expostulation with them for not being able to watch with him " one hour . "
He was in the habit of praying to the Father in the presence of his disciples , and there is no intimation given of his avoiding it in this instance , though , as the prayer had respect only to himself , he stepped aside , surely with great
decorum , to prefer it . Your Correspondent ' s reasoning , therefore , on this part of his subject , if I may say it without offence , amounts to nothing . He spared himself the trouble of collating Luke with the other evangelists , and overlooked tHe " three witnesses , "
who were competent to authenticate the narrative * He proceeds , however , with a string of arguments against the probability of the fact , apt . one of f \ vhich it id * ny >> urpos £ to controvert i foj it ; 4 ae *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/18/
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