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Smf Nov . 15 , 1824 . MR . BROWN , in his elucidations of the Prophecies , in the Eventide , throws out an excellent hint that the prophecies of Daniel and St . John particularly relate to the Jews and their affairs , and to their future fortunes . On this idea , I cannot help supposing * . but that the seven thunders of St . John have a particular reference to the affairs of the Jewish people , rather than to the antichristian powers warring against each other . The symbol , as when a lion roareth , " appears to point to the tribe of Judah , as being connected with the
seven thunders . Four of these thuncjers have been infffcted on their eneinies by the Greeks , who have now so gloriously finished their fourth campaign . If this he so to be understood , there yet remain three other grand conflicts ere the restoration o ? the
Jews to Palestine takes place , l . his remark would seem to strengthen Mr . Brown ' s explanations of the Prophecies . \ PHILALETHES .
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God f i . e . they that are in the law cannot please God , because it has been abolished by the introduction of
Christianity . iC But , " continues be , " ye are not in the law , but in Christianity , if Christ be in you . " And ,, ver . 10 , " The body is dead because of the law ( i . e . sin ); but the spirit is life because of righteousness . " In the passages which follow , the Apostle
evidently keeps up the same idea : "If ye live in the flesh , ye shall die . —The law brought death only , but life and im > mortality came by the gospel . —But if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body , ye shall live . "Which is a proof to me , Sir , that Paul could not mean the miraculous gifts of the spirit .
, Mr . J . remarks , that the miraculous gifts of the spirit being in general imparted to none but sincere Christians , the possession of them proved the piety of those who had them . I think , Sir , there is no great proof of either piety or sincerity manifested in the Corinthian Christians , although
they possessed the gifts of the Spirit in a very splendid manner ; for the Apostle says of them , " Whereas there is among you envying and strife , are ye not carnal ? " And again , when they met to celebrate the Lord ' s Supper , " Ye come together not for the better , but for tke worse . "
Mr . J . has also stated , that the apostles who went to Samaria baptized the converts and then laid their hands on them , and they received the gifts of the Holy Spirit;—which is an error : for the account as recorded is ,
that Philip preached Christ and worked miracles ; and the people with one accord gave heed to what Philip did , hearing of and seeing the miracles which Philip did . And when they believed the things which Philip preached
concerning the kingdom of God , and the name of Jesus Christ , they were baptized both men and women . ( Acts viii . b 9 6 , 12 . ) And whea the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had received the word
of God , ihey sent Peter and John , not to preach or baptize—for this Philip had done—but to confer on them the miraculous gifts . Nor does it appear that any , except the apostles , were capable of bestowing the miraculous gifts of the Spirit . If this be true , it is incumbent on Mr . J * to prove that
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Sir , York , Nov . 19 , 1824 . 1 SHALL feel obliged if you will insert in your very valuable publication the following" remarks on the communication < jf Mr . Jevans , inserted in the Repository for October , pp . 581—584 .
Mr . J . has collected a number of passages to prove that the writer of Romans viii . 9 , "If any man have not the spirit of Christ , he is none of his , " intended in these words the miraculous
gifts of the Spirit . After reading this portion of scripture in the connexion m which it stands , there does not appear to me to be any thing to warrant the idea which Mr . Jevans defends .
The Apostle , in chap , viii ., is evidently contrasting" the two dispensations , viz . the Jewish and the Christian , and he represents one by tke term " flesh , amd the other by the term " spirit . " He ^ nce the Apostle Sil ys , ( ver . , 1 , ) " There is no condemnation to them that are in Chvist Jesus , who walk wot after the flesh , but after
the spirit : " ami , in ver . 4 , he says , € That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us , who walk not
utter the . flesh , but after things of the spirit . ? ' Again , in ver . 8 , " So then they that ^ re in tjie flfcsh cannot please
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Remarks on Bom * viii . 9 , in Answer to Mr . Jevans . J 4 B
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/41/
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