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    that this is not the true solution , though to me it docs not appear the most probable . And it it should prove the riirht interpretation there can be no doubt that it is in tne compass or divine power to qualify our Lord for any office to ' which he niay

    be appointed . But it appears to me more probable that the expressions are to be understood figuratively . In the language of scripture , prophets are sometimes said to do that which they are only commissioned to denounce . Jer . i . \ Q > Jehovah saith to the prophet Jeremiah , t 4 See I have this dav set th . ee over the

    nations , and over the kingdoms , to root out , and to pull dawn , and to destroy , an / J to throw down , and to build , and to . plant . ** And Rev . xi . 6 , where it is said of the two witnesses , that these " have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy , and have power over waters to turn them to

    blood , and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will /* I believe it is commonly understood , that nothing more is intended , than that those calamities would be predicted by the two witnesses . Also , though the words of the prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem , seem naturally calculated

    to excite an expectation of the personal appearance and proper agency of Jesus in that awful catastrophe , and though this expectation seems in fact to have existed ; yet there is no evidence upon record of any such , appearance , and the prophecy received its proper accomplishment by the event having taken place agreeably to our Lord ' s distinct prediction of it . In the same

    manner , in prophetic language , Christ-may be represented as the judge of the world , not that he will himself personally bear any part in the final judgment , but because the future state of all mankind will be eventually awarded in exact correspondence to their moral character , agreeably to the solemn and explicit

    declarations of the gospel , the promulgation of which doctrine was the main object of our Lord's mission and ministry . And upon the same principles , the apostles and professing Christians in general , may be represented as assessors with him in judging the world , as bearing their public and invariable testimony

    from age to age to the same important f ^ ct-Having thus taken all the notice which appears to we to be necessary of iny worthy friends indirect arguments to proyc that Jesus of Nazareth is the 4 e ' egated creator and governor of the world , I propose , in some future communication , to ex

    amme what he states as the ( hrect and proper evidence pf this astonishing doctrine : \ t \ the meantime , Hackney , I remain Sir , Yours , &c , i Aug . 12 18 O 7 ? T , BELSHAM .

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    Mr . Bchham ' s Strictures on Carpe ? iter s Lectures . 4 G 3

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 463, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/11/