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be , manifested to Israel , therefore ana I come baptizing with water . * And John testified , saying , 'I saw the Spirit descending as a dove from heaven * and it ahode upon him . And I knew him not ; but he who sent me to baptize with water , said unto me , Upon whom thou shalfc see the Spirit descending and abiding , that is he who baptizeth with the Holy Spirit . And I saw and testified that this is the Son of God . *
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Many of the most remarkable errors in the interpretation of Scripture , especially in the argumentative parts of the epistles , appear to have arisen from a want of sufficient attention to the peculiar distinguishing circumstances of the disciples of those times ; and from hastily taking it for granted that all the reasonings used by the apostles in reference to the first converts , Jews as well as Gentiles , must have something in our character and conduct to which they are applicable v- —all the terms which they introduce , der J 4 from the worship of the temple , from the traditions of the Jews , pr even from heathen superstition , must have a reference , it is supposed , to all Chris ^ tians in every age of the world . It ought never to be forgotten that the writers of the New Testament were Jews ; and that they wrote to commu- * nities in which the Jewish converts were either numerous , or at bast had a ,
very considerable mfluence ; - ^ so naiich so , as in many instances to pervert the Gentile Christians from their first faith , from that liberty in which Christ had made them free , and to which they had been introduced by the preachr ing of St . Paul , The previous habits of thought and expression in Jewish writers could not fail to lead them to e ^ -p . re 3 s _ fheir ^ views of the saiv ^ ilori which is by Christ , in language bprrawed from those laws , customs , and even prejudices , wfrich were likely to be , familiar and easily Intelligible $ q those to whom they were addressed . This sort of misconception , if I mistake not , prevails to a considerable extent in the use which is made qf various passages of Scripture in supporting ?
the modern doctrine of electtQih as it is . maintained by the most numerous and popular sects , at the present day . Lest I should be thought to misrepresent this doctrine in the remarks which I propose to make on it , I shall begin with citing the formal statement of it , as given in the exposition of modern , orthodoxy , which is generally considered as of the highest authority—the Confession of Faith , published by the Westminster Assembly of Divines ,
By the decrees of Gfod , we are told m this confession , ' for the mamfe , § t # - tion of his glory , some men are predestinated to eternal life , and others foreordained to , everlasting death . Those who are predestinated to life , God , before the foundation of the world was laid , according to his eternal , and immutable purppse , and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will , hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory , out of his mere free grace a , nd
love , without any foresight of faith or good works , or any p |; her good thing in the creature moving him thereto , and all to the praise of his glorious , grace . The rest of mankind "Qod was pleased , according to the unsearch able counsel of his will , whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth , to pass by , and ordain them to dishonour a , nd wratfa for their sins , to the praise of his glorious justice . ' - — ' The effectual call is of God ' s free
and special grace alone ; not from any thing at all foreseen in maw , who is altogether passive therein , until quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit , Others not elected , never truly come to Chr- ^ t , and therefore cannot be saved ; much lesa can men not professing the Christian religion be saved in any way whatsoever , be they never so , d ; iligen , t to frame their lives apcorcling to the light of nature , and the Jaw of that religion they do profeasV
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1833, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2609/page/11/
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