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    been put to a severe trial , he probably fell into the inconsistency I noticed , in the accounts he gives of those circumstances in

    different passages of his Inquiry . Beside those grounds for being dissatisfied with his scheme , I have now to state another , which I

    believe had a principal share in making me abandon an hypothesis , which he displayed so much ingenuity in his attempt to support and establish .

    This additional ground for my dissatisfaction is , that , upon principles and positions laid down by himself , and from which he reasons , it may be made to appear to those who admit them ( in some

    of which ^ however , I do not agree with him ) that the temptation could not be a present trial , though that he considered i t as such must be evident to every one who has perused his work with tolerable attention . Such of those

    positions as I may want I proceed to set down in numbered para * graphs , referring to the pages where they ma 3 ' be found . My edition of the Inquiry is the third , and I believe the last .

    1 par . p , 7 , note . If the devil had disguised himself , the temptations would have been trials rather of the understanding , than of the heart , or of our

    I * ords piety and virtue ; the former of which is very different from the scripture idea of temp » tations .

    1 j 2 par . p . 111 The largest offer is the offer of nothing , if he who iri&kes it be unable'to make it good ; and if he be khown to be

    sdj by the person to whom it is made , the offer will be deemed ah insulty rathet'thah a temptation . 3 Wt . pp . 156 , 157 . Thcf

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    meanest slave of vice ; would turn from the offer of the world , &c . by the devil in person - with

    scorn . 4 par . p . 7 , note . Christ knew the proper character of the devil in the very first temptation , as-well as in every succeeding

    one . 5 par- p . 22 , note . Christ ' s knowing who the tempter was at once disarmed his teiijptations of all their power .

    6 par , p . 37 . A lively exhibi - tion of certain images before the mind produces the same effect with the sight of their . corresponding objects ; and transactions upon the stage of fancy answer the same end as a real performance . 7 par . p . 38 , The real performance of the things said to have been done by the devil could answer no valuable purpose . 8 par . p . 86 , The devil ' s

    seeming to say and do all that is ascribed to him in the history was , in effect ^ the same thing with regard to Christ , as if this had been the very case .

    9 par . p . Q 5 . In a vision the inspired person was awake , and had the regular exercise of his understanding and judgment . , 10 par . p . 96—98 . Vision gives as clear a view of wliat it

    represents , as if it were the very thing itself , and the notice of it were conveyed by the senses . What is imaginary no way differs in appearance from that which is real , and has the same effect upon the prophet , who does not at the

    time distingiiisk betweeii the images of a vision . and- outward objects . The tnuid may enjoy an « qual' liberty in both , and bo as capable of li rational deter * ruination and choice , with re «

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    70 Objections to Mr Farmer ' s Hypothesis . ^—Letter 11 *—

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/22/