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    later : for the Father alone was a false Deity . " Ou looking into the Scriptures I find that Moses . say ** 44 I , Jehovah , am thy God : than shalt have no other Gods beside me , " I find that Isaiah says ,

    " I am God , and there is Qone ehe : I , am God and there is none with me . " I find that Christ says , € The first of all the commandments is , Hear , O Israel ! the Lord our God is one Lord . " I look ift vain for the terms God the Son , or God the Holy Ghost .

    I ascertain from the express words of J $ sus , that the Jehovah , the Lord , the God of the Old Testament is the Father . , " It is my Father that honoureth me , of whom ye ( the Jews ) say , that he is your God *

    And still more explicitly , that the Father only is the true God . " That they may know thee ( O Father 1 ) to be the only true God , and Jesus whom thou hast sent to be the Christ . " I see that Jesus directs his disciples to pray to the Father : 44

    When ye pray , say , Our Father who art in heaven . " And that he asserts of those who worship the Father , that they are the true worshipers : *« The hour is coming and now is , when the true worshipers shall

    worship the Father in spirit and in truth : " and he adds , " God is a Spirit , and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth : thus affirming that the Being whom he had named the Father ^ is the Being called God .

    Looking to the apostles , I see that PauFsays , " There are gods many and lords many : but to us there is but one God , the Father " I find that he worships the Father :

    44 tor this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ * " not to Jesus Christ himself ; not to God the Son ; not to God the Holy Ghost ; not to a " Trinity of persons co-eternal and co-equal . ' If then Jehovah was the Father , not the Son ; if to the Jews there was one God only , and that God the Father , not the Son ; if Christ taught * i « to pray to the Father not to the

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    Son ; and if he declared that the true worshipers should worship the Father , not the Son ; if Paul bowe ^ r the knee , wot to the Son , but to the Father ; and if the Father alone was a false Deity , and the worship of a false deity be idolatry , —then the prophets , Christ , and the apostles were idolaters ! A JEW OF BEREA .

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    16 © " Fire-Act London Clergy "

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    4 C Fire-Act London Clergy " fTpHE " Fire-Act Clergy" are not JL so nicknamed from their present doings , by which the mind a of their parishioners are so much heated and inflamed , but from the amount of their

    benefices being regulated by an Act of Parliament which passed after , and in consequence of the Fire of London . The modus of assessment then and thereby fixed , appeared to the clergy in 1804 insufficient , and with no

    opposition from their parishes they appfied to Parliament for relief , and obtained an Act raising the poundage . Still unsatisfied , they repeated their application to Parliament in 1817 for a further allowance ; but their prayer was refused . This check has not

    discouraged them , and they have given notice of a new application on the same account to the present Parliament . The parishes concerned in the proceeding have taken the alarm , and have in

    almost every instance published Resolutions declaratory of their surprise at the intention of the clergy , and of their determination to resist them by every means in their power . In many of the Resolutions there are statements

    of the distresses and grievances of the parishes , under the weight of taxation and of the poors rate , which well deserve the serious consideration of our statesmen . We take notice of them , however , on account of other

    statements , which ought to be put upon record , and of sentiments which manifest the altered state of the public mind . The Church has no longer the hold which she once possessed of men ' s prejudices and fears . To the imprudence of the London clergy we

    owe the proof of this , to them alarming truth . We are indebted to them , besides , for the publication of facts which shew the absolute necessity of a reformation in the Church , and which indirectly furnwh an argument for Dissent The agitation of this and similar topics may lead to a general

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/30/