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ieous Jehovahfequires no more . We are commanded to " love th § Lord our God with all our heart and mind and strength : " and that is all . Obedience is required only " to the utmost of our power ; " but not beyond our power . The supposed individual
would , therefore , not be justified as a sinner pardoned , and restored to the Divine favour , by a constitution of grace ( which , all admit the gospel to be ) j but he would be justified in another sense and upon a different
principle . He would be treated as a sin- < less and meritorious person - > that is , he would be approved , accepted and rewarded with heavenly happiness , upon the ground of his own perfect moral excellence .
2 . If , however , Mr . Gibson do not intend his terms to be construed strictly , but design only to describe a character distinguished by a singularly eminent degree of that upright , impartial , and persevering obedience
which may be predicated of every sincere Christian ; my answer to the question would be still and most decidedly in the affirmative . But I would solicit attention to a very serious addition to the answer : that the
man who is most zealous and diligent in cultivating personal holiness will be the least disposed to rely upon his holiness , as the ground of his Justification . On the contrary , his moral ^ sensibility is so quick and tender , and bis conceptions of the perfections and
government of God are so exalted , that no language can describe the strength of his conviction of the utter absurdity , yea the arrogance , the impiety , of considering his purest obedience , in any of its acts and through its whole continuance , as , in the smallest degree , a meritorious consideration for
obtaining the pardon of sin and the blessedness of the Divine favour . He is unspeakably thankful that he is enabled to render that devout and constant obedience to his God , which is congenial to tlie best feelings and the wannest desires of his heart , and
which he also knows to be the only genuine evidence of his being justified before God : but he is so sensible of its deficiencies and aberrations , that penitence and lowliness are among the strongest feelings of his mind , and he can find no peace or satisfaction in wntejuplatUig the results of his ac < -
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eountabieness to the Most Holy One , excepting through the medium of the seriptiire-doctrine of Free Justification by the grace of God , through the redemption whith is by Christ Jesus * The daily language of his soul is , " Unter not into judgment with thy
servant , O Lord ; for in thy sight shall no flesh living be justiBed IWhat things were gain to me , those I counted loss for Christ : yea , doubt * less , and I coui ) t all things but loss , for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things ,
and do count them but dung , that I may win Christ , and be found in him , not having mine own righteousness which is of the law , but that which is by the faith of Christ , the righteousness which is of God by faith . " God grant that this may be the sincere conviction and belief and desire of him that writes , and of every one that may read these words ! J . PYE SMITH .
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Dr . J . Jones on Pkito , Joseph us fi False Gospels , SfC 205
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Dr . J . Jones on Phllo , Josephus , False Gospels , fyc . PHILO was not only a believer in the Gospel , but one of the most eloquent and intrepid apologists which
the gospel ever had . Facts highly important respecting its divine origin and propagation may be gathered from his works . We might reasonably expect that an advocate so distinguish ^ ! by zeal , rank and talents , should have been noticed in the New Testament :
and I now propose to prove—at least to shew by probable reasons —that Philo is the very person to whom Luke addressed his Gospel , under the name of Theophilus . Tradition is very vague and uncertain as to the country in which the Evangelist Luke published his memoirs of Jesus Christ . We are not .
however , without some testimony that Egypt was the place of its first publication : and this supposition is corroborated in a remarkable manner by internal evidence . I shall at present mention onlv one circumstance in its
favour . The sacred historian speakvS of many who took in hand to write about the things said arid done by our Saviour . Origen and Jerome , if I remember rightly , two of the best informed of the Greek and Latin fa-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/13/
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