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Sm , May 10 , 1824 . NOT knowing whethejr the death of Christ , as connected with -his spotless and sinless life , has been bandied by any one in this peculiar point of view , I merely suggest a hint for
others to enlarge upon , should it be thought of any importance . The Apos-Cie Paul denominates owr Lord , the second Adam . " The first Adam , by his disobedience , brought death into the world ; the last Adain , by bis obedience to the will of iGo 4 , brought life and immortality to $ * e eons of m&n . Being , th « n , without sin , it would seem that he might have escaped death in any way , and have fceen translated or changed , as Moses and Eliae , had it "ot been otherwise appointed by © i-
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yi # e jPmvldei ^ e : which seQnjs $ o giv § gojafce fwce to § ur Lpr < Vs spying tQ Porterx " Thinkes t thiou thatt 'Lqoano- t now pray to i » y Father , anej be will send ms more than twelve legions of
angels ? " " How then cant tl * e Scriptures be fulfilled , that thus it must b $ ?> J These angels were certainly not intended to fight against the Jews , but to rescue him , $ n < i convey Jesus to the man- ? si § as of immortality . His death , then ,
was volmitary . Pe himself says , " No roan takefh it ( life ) from me , but I lay it down of myself , I Uave power tq lay it down , and I have power to take it again . This commandment have t received $ f my Father , ^ Hq * v greatly
does this enhance the merit of his ^ uffering ^ and death I Taking it in this peculiar point o < view , I t ^ ink it thrown considerable liffht on many pasaarge ^ qf Scripture which relate to his humbling himself , and becoming obedient unto death , even the death of the crass . PHILALETHES ,
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rally contributed to his maintenance . In vain I mentioned to that ejegaat writer , who was not curious aboul facts , that this persoa eou ! 4 nes ^ r have Ixeen Anthony Calling who had always a plentiful fortune ; and wbea it was suggested to him , that this
• " A . Collins , " as he printed it , must have been Arthur Collins , the histo ? rical compiler , who was often in pe « cuniary difficulties , still he persisted in sending the lie down to posterity , totidem verbw * without alteration in
his second edition , observing to a friend of mine , that f < the story , while it told well , might serve as a striking instance of his great relative ' s generosity ; &nd that it should stand , because it could do no harm to any but to Anthony Collins , whom he considered as little short of an Atheist . So " much for this pious fraud 1 But be it recollected , that this Anthony Collins was the confidential friend of Locke , of whom Locke said , on his dying bed , that " Collins was a man whom he valued in the first rank of those that he left behind him . " And the last words of Collins , on his own
death-bed , were , that lie was persuaded he was going to that place which God had designed for them that love him . " The qause of true religion will never be assisted by using such leaky vessels as Cumberland ' s wilful calumnies , which in the end must run out , and be found , like the present , mere empty fictions !
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Dr . John Jones on the Parable of Dives and Lazarus . IN compliance with the wish of one of your correspondents , ( p . 140 , ) I send § few remarks on the parable of
Lazarus and the rich man , contained in Luke xvi . 19—35 . Verse 18 ha , s apparently no connexion whatever with the preceding verses . And this is one of those passages which betray aa iapokerenee in the language of Jesus , while his id , eas , in consequence of an
intermediate step left unnoticed , $ re intimately connected . In ve ? s& 16 , lie had the death of John in his mipu , The law and the prophets were uYtfil John * since that time , &c . Having this event in his mind , he p ^ sed flvejr to the cause which }§ d to his
jknpriponment and murder : mxd this , as we learn from other parts of Jhe Evangelical Hi ^ toiy , was the adultery of Herod . Thus thinking of the violar tiou of justice jand cWtity , in the per&on of Herod , he delivers % general proposition on the sjuiyecl , without
specifying the i ndividual against w ^ orai Lt ikvas levelled . *• ' Who&oeyer putfceth away his wife committeth . adultery . " TJie ma * i that is guilty of such a crime , however great h& sx ^^ y toe , shall be puni ^ ih ^ d /^ In ver&G 18 , we have see » ^ that puir
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/11/
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