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to understand ; yet we see , and have learnt from revelation , enough to satisfy us that these seeming or temporary inequalities will sooner or later be rectified . For reasons which we may never be able thoroughly to comprehend , they are doubtless necessary to the greatest good of the whole ; but in the mean time they are productive of effects which , for the time , and relatively to those immediately affected by them , are evil . Hence it follows
that the views we have been endeavouring to illustrate of the purposes of Providence and the manner in which the permission of evil in general , and the limited diffusion of Christian truth in particular , may be reconciled to oui notions of the wisdom and goodness of God manifested towards all his creatures , though they may serve in our moments of serious and devout reflection to set our minds at rest on these interesting points of speculation , cannot , at least they ought not , to influence our practice . They may relieve us from many anxious doubts and perplexities as to the final result , —they
may prevent us from indulging in the unchristian feelings of hatred or censoiious pride towards those whom the plans of the Divine government have , for the present , placed in circumstances less favourable to improvement than . our own , —but they will not check one ardent prayer , they will not suppress one warm desire , they will not prevent one zealous and active exertion for the diffusion of knowledge , the promotion of religion and virtue , or the propagation of pure and undented Christianity . W . T .
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The following remarks were originally intended for a continuation of our review of Dr . Bloomfield * s " Recensio Synoptica Annotations Sacrae . " Other engagements have prevented our carrying that article farther , and we hope we have sufficiently justified the opinions we ventured to express respecting the work ; but another example of the way in which passages of Scripture , bearing on points of controverted doctrine , are usually treated even by the most learned and candid among the advocates of reputed orthodoxy will not be uninstructive .
In his comment on . the inscription of the Epistle to the Romans Dr . Bloom field ' s zeal against Unitarianism breaks out in what we cannot but think a peculiarly ill-timed attack . We , do not wonder , indeed , that the words of the Apostle ( ch . i . vers . 3 , 4 ) should have suggested to his thoughts the Unitarian doctrine respecting the person and authority of the Saviour , but that he should have considered them as affording an argument , and even as authorizing a sneer , against that doctrine , does seem to us
passing strange . The words of St , Paul , as represented in the Authorized Version , are , < c Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord , which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh ; and declared to be the Son of God with power , according to the spirit of holiness , by the resurrection from the dead "
Though the sense of the original is here by no means clearly exhibited , it would seem to an unprejudiced reader sufficiently evident that Jesus is declared to have been by descent of the family of David , but to have acquired
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Bioomfield ' s Recensio Synoptica . 661
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cloomfield ' s recensio synoptica .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 661, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/5/
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