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mmy tbo&e heav $ loms uOuch preesi faftttfr ujjon , tfoei # , whw they consider Gtq 4 aft UPder th $ ae ^ es ^ ity of cjeviaj ^ g ftom tjie established order of things * and of violating th& I ^ wj 8 : of nature , to . gjro jnot ^ the . nao ^ a ^ ifpp $ Qvemen $ of his ijafion ^ l creatures , IJunag . ^ reason Cft&
receive i * q higher glqa ^ use tho& wheat it contemplates , Qod a $ giving sxist- , wee , in his ajl ^ oaa pjshejisive mipd , to dis , ta # t fiijuri , % g , andlas ^ t ^ blishing i& ( nature ; suck general laws , ^ a , s are ttjJly adequate * without thye lea ^ t sh # d ow > off acbroge , * Q aqcompUsl ) all the p «* v gqses of his , will .
When , tjie Diyine Being m considered as . enabling a , prophet to work mii ^ cles by the agency of a competent power existing in nature * the njind is relieved from naaiiy perplexing doubts . The idea * is , not complex ,, and so fag is it firom beipg contradicted , that it is
confirmed by the discoveries of philosophers ^ When a , metaj , by the action of fi ^ e , h&s be ^ n red u , qed tp a calx or gl ^ s § , it njay be revivified , aod recover all its metalline properties by a simple process known , to , the lowest mechjanic . And sJiall it he considered ; as , a . violation of the laws of nature , if God be
represented as enaphng the great architect , whom he fore-ordained to create all things anew , by a , process for- more siqiple ap ( l expeditious , to calm the r ^ e of % storixi , to restore suspended animation , to give vigour and , strength to a withered limb , and health and
soundness to a diseased body ? Nothing has more retarded the progress of religious knowledge so effectually as the idea , for ages entertained and inculcated , that the truths of Christianity are top sublime for the comprehension of hugenan reaspn . The people have been exhorted to believe , but not to
ex& ppinp . Th ^ t philosophy , the fairest cjiild of reason , should shrink from a religion thus recommended , is not to be wondered , atf But itjis to ba hoped that thi&pwod of the stationary , or rather r ^ id otion
r ^ t ^ Qge m of reli g ion , is now clps . ea 5 t \ iaf < her course is direct and pXPgfjes ^ ive ; af > d that , ere loqg > true p ^ U , oSjOBhy : will bow at h ^ r altars ^ assert hej ; honour , a ^ l defend her cause . Let
n ^ ot , thgn , the Chiristimi be di ^ hearte ' ^ ecL Th ^ Sua of Righteouf 3 ue ^ s contmues , tQ ri ^ e tA it ^ m ^ ridiim altitude ; th , e clQUf lft ^ which ob 3 cu ^ re its lustre giwJl ^^ ly vapi ^ h berfbrei its , all-powerful 6 ^ 1 ^ . l ^ o . { Jo ^ hu ^ cam sv ay tqjt ^ wi th
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a . prevailing voice , " Sun , stand tk < Hi ^ till ; for behold k shall ' * ' sMhe m o * e md more unto the perfect day-. ^ BEREANU& . MflflBktoM .
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46 d Le Clerc on the LmpwoSeik qf the Scriptures
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Newjjwwt , Isle of * Wight . HAVE not . the whole of the vor I lumes of yowr Repository a £ \® . v& to consult , wfietfaei : Mr . Le Ckre ? s
views , upon the Inspiration of the Scriptures have ever beep corpmunir cated to you or not . They h&ye apr peered to me to . m ^ rit o , wider <^ lffus io nL By mezns of th 3 * t valuably work , a ^ 4 to be too interesting to ; your reader ^ not to giv . e pleasure . If your opinion should be the same , the following summary of them is much at your
service . It is found in a , small volume , now , I believe , very scarce , and first , written anonymously , entitled , Five Letter concerning the Inspiration * of the Scriptures . Traxislated , from the French \ 69 Q * Th ^ y were not orir ginally printed , in this ; fejjm , but , af ^
extracted from tw > o larger volumes o £ an epistolatory kind ; the ftr ^ t , entitlfid , The Thoughts or Refleotiom of some Divines in Holland , upon Father Simon ' s Critical Hist&ry of the Old Tes ^ tament ; the second , A * Q efence of those Thoughts , in Answer to tht Prior of BolviUe , * W . S .
< c In the fir&t place , I believe that no prophet > , either of the Old or New Testament , has said' any thing in the name of God ^ or as by his order , which God had not > effectually ordered him to say ; nor has undertaken * to foretell any thing which Gt > d had not indeed truly revealed to him ; and that this cannot be doubted of without great
impiety ; " In the ' second place-, I believe that there is no matter of fact of any importance , related- in the history of the Old or New Testament , which in eflfeft
is not- true . And' that , tjrottgh there may be some slight circumstances , wherein some of tlte historians were mistaken ; yet we ought ; nevertheless * t © look upon that history , in gen ^^ l , as the truest and most " holy history * The reader will find some account of these Letter * in our X-IIIth Vol ; p » 86 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/26/
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