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and compassion ^ with which it is our delight to see our heavenly King invested . They who can delight in such puny thoughts are welcome to them ; it will give me no concern to be
charged by such persons with " inconsistent scepticism , " though I think the adjunct might be taken away from this charge ; for they only can be consistent who , while they believe the Supreme Being to be infinitely exalted
above all blessing and praise , yet will assign him such paltry offices as many of those to which his agency is attained in a style of language chosen to suit the low conceptions of that small race of beings whose whole conduct , from the time they borrowed the jewels from their masters , to their
dividing between them the rich land of Canaan , is a compound of ignorance , perverseness and rebellion . Yet they were not ignorant of what had been done for them , as many now seem to be , with all the aids of learning , and the lights which , in these latter days , have been thrown on the history of
ancient times . It is generally admitted among our biblical scholars , and it is a sentiment carried by some of them to a great length , that quotations from the Old Testament are made in the New , in
order to shew a similarity of circumstances , and not a necessary connexion between the things spoken of . The respect in which the Christian writers held the Scriptures made them desirous of connecting the days of Christ with those of the earlier prophets : and
where there they saw a similarity , or imagined a likeness , it was natural for them to point it out : and I suppose your correspondents are not ignorant that one highly respectable branch of the Unitarian public in England are not willing to admit even that many
of those passages in the Old Testament , which have been generally thought to point to the Messiah , have any reference whatever to that great personage ; they refuse to admit what to most are palpable prophetic declarations . And , will your correspondent I- refuse them the character of Christians ? But I must conclude . W .
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k Pastoral Letter of Dr . Doyle ' s on Public Bible DUcuttims . 541
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Pastoral Letter of Dr . J > t > yl £ s on Public Bible Discussion * * TO THE REVEREND THE CATHOLIC CLERGY IN CARLOW AND ITS VICINITY , WHO WERE HERETOFORE ENGAGED IN DISPUTES WITH CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY .
Keverend and dear Brethren , HAVE only heard of a challenge I to dispute being published in The Dublin Evening * Post , wherein certain members of the Bible Society , m Dublin , propose to meet some
individuals of our clergy , in the presence of a select portion of the public , in order to discuss some question or questions previously agreed upon , and which are to relate , I suppose , to the religious belief of the parties to be thus engaged . _
I need not remind you , dearest Brethren , of what is ruled by the Supreme Authority of the Church , ( see Ben . xiv . de Syn . Dioc ., ) with regard to individuals , unauthorized thereto by their Bishop ^ not entering into public disputations with persons maintaining
heretical opinions ; your own good sense , and the very nature of divine truth , as deposited by Christ with his Apostles and their successors , shew to you , that whatever relates to faith , morals or discipline , should be
regulated by those whom the Holy Ghost has appointed to govern the Church . I , therefore , hearing of the above challenge , wishing to inform you , and all those concerned with you , that , having given to this matter , what consideration it deserves , it is mv wish
that no such disputation as is above mentioned be had by you , or by any of you , with the gentlemen alluded to !!! As the obedience you owe to me is a reasonable one , it is just that I
should state the grounds upon which I require of you to exercise it in this matter , and they arc—First , because the character of the Christian religion is peace ; and the end of it , to establish peace and good-will upon earth ,
as the means of fitting men for heaven ; this end of our calling was announced by the Angels at Bethlehem , when the humanity and benignity of our Saviour God first appeared ; and it was repeated by himself when he was about to leave us and return to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/27/
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