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      I believe , it is admitted by all parties of Christians , that the true worshippers $ > f God > under the Jewish dispensation , prayed to no being but the Father , who was known to them as the -one Jehovah , the God of Abraham , of Isaac and of Jacob . Had

      Jesus been sent to change the object of religious worship , to introduce a new object of religious worship , pn a point of such vast importance , he would certainly have -expressed himself in the most

      explicit rnanner ; but so far from this being the case , he never intimated any such design : on the contrary , he and his apostles sanctioned , and taught in the plainest

      manner , the doctrine of Moses and the prophets respecting the object of Worship . No practice did the Jewish law more pointedly and positively condemn than the offering of religious worship to

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      aiR , May 2 % ,, 1 S © 8 . Regarding the scriptures as the only sure guide to religious truth , and common sense « 'is the expo-,

      sitor , which every Christian is capable of consulting at all , trmes I have carefulJy examined those interesting records in reference to the doctrine of original 8 ^ n , and now send you the decisions of common sense , founded on such scriptural examination of the subject .

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      any being but the one Jehovah , nor was there any point of which the Jews , in the days of Christ and his apostles were more teruu cious : yet we never find them

      charging him with introducing any object of worship contrary . to the law , or with receiving religious worship himself , though had he done it , no doubt they

      would have proceeded against him on that ground , and he would have been condemned to death , according to the strict letter of the law . No charge of this kind being brought against him is a full proof that he countenanced no deviation from the exclusive

      worship of the one Jehovah . No charge of this kind being brought against the apostles is a proof that they did not pray to Christ , or teach others to pray to him , of to any being but the Father . Jtpril 8 , lgO <) . W .

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      Supposing the doctrine of original sin to be true , and that it occupies the important and kad-• ing place in the system of Christian truth 5 which many Christians have aUotted it by representing it as having rendered necessary the mediation of Christ , and the great work of Christian

      redemption ; it was natural for me to conclude that Jesus , whom I had learned ( o revere , as the greatest of teachers and the most glorious

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      ANT ARGUMENT AGAINST -PRAYIXG TO CHRIST .

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      PECI » IONS OF COMMON SENSE , ON THE DOCTRINE OJf ORIGINAL SIN . LETTER 11 * .

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      * ForL . ctter I . see I ^ E- Repos , \ ol . iii . p , 106 .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/10/