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    Theologous . Prove , if you can , thatj \ o celebrated prostitute then lived at Rome , whose wicked accomplices excited the indignation of the virtuous Sejanus . Prove .

    if you can , that she did not withhold her rich presents from the temple at Jerusalem , and that the world did not ring with this unparalleled wickedness . In fine , prove , if you can , that when the apostle Paul uses the very expression , u . Thou callest thyself a Jew , ' * he can possibly mean any other person than that wicked Jew who

    did all the mischief in the time of Tiberius . And that when the apostle so pointedly asks , dost thou commit adultery , dost thou commit sacrilege ? " he can possibly allude to any other facts , than to the state of adultery in which this Jew and others lired with that celebrated lady , and to the shocking impiety , of diverting her rich presents from the temple at

    Jerusalem . No , no—the learned Theologus' is not to be trifled with . Come forward , ye presuming editors ; disprove his facts , ' and confute his logic—or retire to your garrets and be silent for ever .

    Unfortunate editors of the Improved Version ! when you drew up your Notes for the use of the uninformed reader , little did you suspect that you were about to expose your incapacity to the critical acumen of the learned Theologus ; whose fidelity in quotation , whose candour in judgment , whose accuracy of discrimination , and whose veracity in assertion , are in perfect unison with his deep learning and his comprehensive research . You have presumed , in a note upon Romans viii * 34-. upon the authority of Schleusncj , to explain

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    the word sv % yy ^ xvvrfsgltvog , ( to intercede , ) in the sense of doing any thing for the benefit of an-.. other . " From which you

    inferthat this expression , as applied to Christ in this and in one other text , viz . Hob . vii . 25 . means that Christ in his exalted state is employed in some way unknown to us , for the benefit of his churchy

    But that these passages lay no just foundation for the commonly received opinion concerning the intercession of Christ , " This opinion , as every well-informed divine knows / is , that Jesus Christ

    in heaven is continually employed , either explicitly or virtually , in praying for his disciples . An arbitrary supposition , and which derives no support or countenance from the Christian Scriptures . '

    Upon this humble note has the learned Theologus condescended to exercise his gigantic powers , and with one stroke of his huge critical mace to crush it and its

    authors to atoms . And in what way does he execute this sumrpary Justice ? In the first place ^ the learned Theologus , with consummate fidelity , quotes a very small

    part of the note as if it were the whole . Secondly , the learned Theologus , with equally consummate ingenuity and candour ,

    remarks , " The meaning is briefly this , Though Christ intercedes , we have no ground to believe in his intercession . " And , thirdly , the learned Theologus adds , with the most undaunted assurance . kll V _> M . JLA ^ . J KM V VA ¦ . * VAIfc V * M . M . » * V » ^ WKS % J k # * 14 M . M »*• ^

    £ u This , 1 believe , is a fair speci - men of the notes . " With the good leare of the learned Theologu * , I will make bold to state in the first place , that it is my firm conviction , that when the learned Theologus cited

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    uj Strictures on the Critiques of Theologus . 38 p

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/13/