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    # ^^ l | i ^ | - & $ ! $$ . $$ mfr if * py yet remained , was instantly done away by his avowing ^ " I am he . " His answer to tt ^ e inquiry , " How were thine pyei opened l" proves , as does t £ e inquiry itself , that up to this moment he had been blind . Of the same purport , and conclusively to the same fact , is his subsequent language , * *{ jQm tbmg I know , that , whereas I

    wj | S bluvd , Bop I see . " . . But the most comprehensive aod important question of all remains : it % Whether we h ^ ve evidence that tlie man w ^ s , in truth , jsured 3 Now this ade on the

    T ; e ^ y inquiry was m spp t w&ere the miracle is alleged to have happened , at the time when it is said to , have been trought , and in the presence of the persons who were iriost disposed and best able to scrutinize the report . qt be to

    > It c ^ nn immaterial observe that our Lord previously intimated his design of . performing a miracle in fayour of this individual , and , by this intimation , courted the scrutiny which lib mighty deeds \ vo \ ild bear : ' * I must work the works of Hina that sent me ,

    \ pfile it is flay j the oight comeih when gift ip&n c $ ji syork—as long as I am yi the world I am the light of the World i ' *' , U $ . light m the highest and inqst interesting of all senses , but , at t | iq same time , in the act by which I fiye l ight ' to t ^ ose who are literally iiqdl When h $ had thus spoken , lie Proceeded to remove the blindness

    i $ this individual : and should it be objected that , in effecting the removal of it , he seemed to employ means Syhich some may regard as naturally leading to that end , the answer is obyio ; u 8—he used these sigps , with the view of denoting that he himself wast ^ he instmip en t of Almighty God in

    $ X % nti $ g tm e ^ traqrdmary « rielief . ' ¦ Jpjj k cure w ^ 3 q mstant ^^ ug g ^ nd perfect , that it c o ^ ld . iiQ $ fcave beea |^ p ^ jjtboiit by n ^ e rdy iminan agep-^ Iff C | ii $ v *^ rd remedies ^ M en who w * W . flf d-iiiary- appliciitionri receive fUeif sight , ^ ft ^ long and total blindn ^ 9 > c ^ npipt hoover for a considerabfe ^ i ^ e endure the r ^ of Jight . but be

    P ^ . ^ t | od ) iced to it by degrees , and wUH t ^ e nicest cwtiou . I may even intimate the probability that with-

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    I ^ grav ^ t 0 confer | ijp [ goftf ^ j | i ^ the H eviL appily forlthe Chriai ^ n cause , lH Pharisees sifted the ^ vjd pnces ang the circumstances of this Cfjr § with . |^ g utmost rigour . Still they could nbt ^

    deny the event—either its existence or its quality . All which they could fi ^ nally object , wag , t ^ af t&e miracle had been wrought on the Sabbath-day , that he who performed it was there ^ - fore a sinner , that of such a cure there

    had been no previous example , and that the subject of it was a man ; of humble rank ; objections wl ^ ich could weiglj nothing jafg ^ i ^ st direc t evidence . If we examine y ^ t ^ pore carefujfy the language and department of the individual who thus received his sight , and those of our Lord ^ s enemies , we

    perhaps shall b ^ ve a still fuller conviction of the reality of the miracle . The account givep by the patient himself is this : " A man , who is called Jesus , made clay , and anointed mine eyes , and said unto me , Gto tQ the bath of Siloam , and wash ; and 1

    went and washed and received sight . " Here we have an extremely plain and inartificial testimony , in which he who tad been blind persevered , in Respite of all the endeavours that were used to make him retract it jj ? pfc > % though for continuing to bear it ' fie suffered the lesser excommunication , * or was cast out of the synagogue . In t ? uth , nothing can be more pertinent than thjs np a ^ s answers to the questions of t ^ M ^ risees ; nothing , of the sort , and

    more (^| piciou 8 convincing than his reinarks ; nothing more natural and impressive than his acknowledgment of the JVJessiahship of hii | i who had poured the light of day po his recently sightless eye-balls . No

    wonder that hg who ut ^ red fiqch lap- * guage f admitted the clainis qf «^ su § , and prostr ^ d himself befo re h io > , nqb in t ^ ken of adorati on , hut in proof of his submission to him , as iiis religious Lord and Teacher !

    There is something top iji the who | $ of what Jhe Pharisees said and di ^ ^ this occasion , which denotes that vi ££ and passion were now struggling wit ^ ikpit jm ^ gment . T l ^ e y cau ^ pt in ^ e ^

    ^ * Ven 34 . See the marginal tr ^ nsla tion 5 and Bishop Pearce in loc . t V 6 rs . 36—39 ,

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    2 Observations on thfi M $ ra $ l K p reeorded in John \ x > ' ' ' - V . -- * '¦' „ ' /

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    * V ^ r . 2 S .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/2/