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Clirist vanishes ; they are equal to him , and many of them , under more disadvantageous circumstances ; and their virtue I apprehend ( without meaning to disparage it ) , is not greater than the virtue of many eminent Jews , Heathens , &c . so that at this rate , Jesus , instead of being pre-eminent , is only one in a crowd . But if the best Christians do not , any of them , ( and if
all do not , it is because they cannot ) , equal Christ m virtue , what becomes of his example ? On the Unitarian ground it seems useless . It may be said that the ever-blessed God is proposed in the New . Testament as a pattern of moral perfection ; but does not this observation confront rather than aid the Unitarian , as shewing that it is not absolutely necessary that Jesus Christ should be of : the same nature with us in order to be our forerunner in virtue ? . . , .. .
I write not as an objector against Unitarianism , but as an hiimble ( I trust ) and sincere seeker after truth , I know not what you will think of my reasoning , but you cannot , I am sure , blame my temper , and I feel assured that if Mr . Wright or any other person , condescend to favour me with a reply , he will write in the same spirit of candour and frankness , and with the same earnest desire to see the truth as it is in Jesus , and that $ nlv , prevail * r J , w s * > AN OLD DISCIPLE , r ' ¦ „ * ' ,, i ¦ ' v '
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ACCOUNT © F THE LATE CARDINAL YORK , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository \ Sir ,
I was , much pleased with the " Character of the present Pope ,. Pius . VIL" extracted in a former part of your work , ( vol . I . p . 532 . ) from Lemaistre ' s Travels , and now beg leave to send for your use an equally interesting description from the same
work , 'or Cardinal York , who , I see in the newspapers , is lately deceased . The visit here related was made in the year 1803 . Wishing your Repository may always be entertaining and inr structive , I am , Yours , &c ,, episcopus .
I shall follow up my account of the presentation to the pope , by that of my introduction to ihe Cardinal Duke of York , ( the present pretender to the throne of England ) , whom , as the last descendant ; and representative of the house of Stuart * I was anxious to see * Th «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/19/
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