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      tnailcls wfre not gfveir with that mysterious ambiguity wjtoch is calculate to misliad , and re * quirrs subsequent revelations to explain . —No : they are address * ecl to ihe whole nation k \ terrofe

      the most positive and explicit , ^ vt > ry difficulty is done away , ^ every objection is anticipated , all c > imntion for the priestly office is superseded , because the persons are expressly appointed to admin ster our ordinances- ^ -. thotc au ^ iiat ord i nances which

      ' are for " signs between God and "his people from generation to generation . And above all , out Lawgiver was not content with delivering his laws in a mere verbal manner to his hearers , and ieavincr them to the treacherous

      tablets of human memory to ^ record to posterity ; but , uniting the historian to the legislator , he . has hirr ^ elf l eft on record every ceremony he has enjoined , so that Ivhen our little ones ask the ojb-

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      strictures o * r chariclo ' s explanation of the ascension OF CHRIST .

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      To file Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      8 tR , April 1 , 1809 . Your commendable liberality in admitting all parties to state tluir opinions in your work , has

      been used by an unbeliever , in the name of a churchman , to call in question the reasonableness of Christianity ., by pretending to attack the , opinions of one sect of its professors . He has received his quietus , hut another of the same breed , under the specious pretence of inquiry , is attempting to bring

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      ject of their tfdrntoemofatien , we can refer to the ^ e fa&t rfrorabfe opochs which shew iis to havfc been highly favoured atnohg tlife

      nations , and thus from so pure a spring the streams of instruction , shall fertilise their tender mindS , kind cause the fragrance of divine truth to ascend to heaven .

      But . my subject has already carried me beyond the bounds of your patience . I trust that this humble attempt to defend the religion of my brethren , and to shew that the sneer of the ignorant and sarcasm of the witty ought not exclusively ( at least ) to be

      directed to us , but that Chnstianity ^ even Rational CJiristi * itnity , is fair game , will find ft , place in your Miscellany ; and realize the hope you have taught me to indulge , that it is ;< opeh to free inquiry in matters of Religion . " ABSALOM PHILLIPS .

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      into ridicule a fundamental doc * trine , or to call in question an important truth of the gospel . I wish that such men as these would boldly assume their true charac * ter , assert their unbelief , glony in

      and defend their title to the name of sceptic , as the Christian glories in his name—but those days are over . Driven am ? defeated as the enemies of Christianity have beea from all their posts and holds , ashamed to expose their fronts to

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      St rictttres &nOhartefo . & 6 S

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      Vol . iv . 3 B

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      a delivered unto you ajnong the chief things , what I received also , that Christ died for our sins , and that he was buried , and that he rose the third day , according ; to the scriptures . "——Pavl .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/9/