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    With hope , like this , to live or perish , Is pur redemption—duty—joy ! Which when our souls shall cease to cherish , Those guilty souls , O God ! destroy !

    And dare ye , erring ones , endeavour , With insolent slanderous thought , Us—from our hallowed truth to sever , Truth , by our own Jehovah taught ? Preach ye a fruitless toleration ,

    Which baseness may extort from pride ? Our Israel waits her great salvation , And breathes no pray ' r for aught beside !

    Yes ! that , for which you bid us meanly Resign the soul ' s divinest flame , ( Which , spite of all , shall shine serenely , ) Is hateful to us as your aim ! The dread tribunals' fire and fetter , Yes , e'en the taunts from scoffers heard , Are better to endure—far better Than benefits by you conferr'd .

    The age of darkness now is bounded , Restoring times are hast e ning on , In which God ' s kingdom shall be founded , In which all hell shall be o ' erthrown . The sentence soon will publish loudly Whom glory waits and whom disgrace ; Philosophers , who rule us proudly , Or Jacob ' s scorn'd and suffering race !

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    Sir , ¥ B ^ HE illustration proposed by J . S . JL H . ( p . 219 ) of the text in John , € t What , and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before ?" appears to me unsatisfactory . The inference that the words * must have had an allusion to some place where the Jews knew Jesus to have

    been , " seeins to me drawn from weak premises , namely , that * otherwise his question or appeal would not have been more plain or intelligible than the language which had g iven them offence . " But why should it have

    been more intelligible ? Or how does it appear that it was so ? The reverse is shewn by the fact that they were still dissatisfied , and that ' * from that time many of the disciples went back . " If Jesus alluded to the mountain on

    which he had multiplied the loaves , and meant , as your correspondent supposes , to intimate that if he were again to perform the same , or a similar miracle , they would still remain unconvinced of his being the Christ , the

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    rebuke was not better calculated to conciliate their prejudices , than that which had given them offence from its apparently paradoxical character . The objection , therefore , that the words

    must have been allusive to a known place and remembered transaction , because he must have intended that they should be level to their immediate apprehension , is nullified by the defect of proof that he had this

    intention . The position that " neither the Jews in general , nor the disciples , knew any thing of a descent of their Master from heaven / ' would , I think , be met by the Trinitarian and Arian by the replication , that Christ in this very conversation had asserted the fact . "I

    came down from heaven : " ver . 38 . It is not that the acceptation of the words , as referring to Christ ' s future ascension , and involving his pre-existence in a state of heavenly glory , is defective in coherence with the argument ,

    that Unitarian believers scruple at receiving it ; on the contrary , it must possess a simplicity and connexion in the eyes of those who are prepossessed in favour of the superhuman nature of Christ , which to them must appear conclusive in favour of its truth . We

    reject it because it is inconsistent with the general tenor of scripture evidence . Whether on the Arian or Trinitarian scheme , it contradicts alike the simple unity and indivisible attributes of God , the real or perfect humanity of Christ , and the pledge of the human resurrection .

    The sense affixed to the allusion by J . S . H . is surely flat and pointless , while the form and manner of the interrogation would seem to indicate something of a significant and

    important bearing- ; nor does the conclusion supposed appear to be that which would naturally be drawn from the words . The sentence rather implies , that were lie to be seen to re-ascend ,

    their unbelief would give way . If any mountain were alluded to by Jesus , it migL ^ t rather be conjectured to be the €€ exceeding high mountain /' Matt . iv . 8 , which was the scene of his

    visionary temptation , and to which his disciples , at least , knew that he had been " carried b y the spirit / ' This appeal would at feast be pertinent and striking .

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    280 On John vi . ^ 2 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/24/