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      working miracles must be admitted to be so too ; for a disposition to exalt the one , will induce us readily to magnify the other . In this view , therefore , the general assertion contained in the note on the ist verse of the 4 th chapter of St . Matthew , that " our Lord was

      entrusted with the power of working miracles at pleasure , " inferred from John iil 34 , 33 9 appears calculated rather to convey a wrong than a right impression , concerning the extent of our Lord's power in this respect * John expressly relates , chap , xi , 41 , 42 , that our Lord , when about to raise Lazarus from the

      dead , addressed the Father in these words , " Father , I thank thee , that thou hast heard me . I know , indeed , that thou nearest me always 5 * V from which it is not unreasonable to conclude , that

      our Lord invariably , either mentally or audibly , prayed to the Father for assistance , whenever a miracle was to be performed by him . This conjecture is abundantly confirmed by the numerous texts in which our Lord declares that

      b $ could do nothing of himselfi and that // was the Father ivbo did the works by him ; a language by no means suited to one who was conscious of unlimited power , and such as our Saviour would certainly

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      MR- BARRETT ON THE * " LETTERS TO THE PRELATES . "

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      • To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      Doughty Street , ^ ttg . 2 , 1810 ,. SIR , Your correspondent Bv . H . need not doubt that Mr . Radcliffe was really the author of the Letters to the Prelates , though his own singular modesty always prevented hiirt from claiming the laurels which the public voice had decreed to the author of that a ^

      drairable production . I have seen a part of the original manuscript in his own hand-writing , and also a letter addressed to him , previous to its publication , from Dr . Fleming , containing a number of friendly remarks . I remain , Sir , Yours , &o . , , JOS . BARRETT , x "

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      ( Copjr of a letter from the Rev . S , S . Tories to a Member of Parliament , ) 7

      ir < mlinghamf March 6 f 18 JO . -Honored Sir , Though I may be an entire granger to you , yet recollecting the pl ^ jasure I pnce had in your company in our most worthy friend

      —— s counting-house , and , being impressed with respect for . yoiir private and public char ^ ct ^ r , I am emboldened to . address y ( m on a subject oft < lgpp interest to the dis - senters of this countjry , lately in .

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      not hare used , if he had possessed the power of "working miracles at pleasure . The 53 d verse of the a 6 th chapter of St . Matthew , furnishes , I think , an almost decisive argument in favour of this supposition . It will be there found , that our L . ord , upon Peter ' s cutting off tlie ear of one of the High Priest ' s servants ,

      said , " Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father , and he will send me more than twelve legions of angels ?" The sudden appearance of a host of angels , corne to his defence , every one must allow , would have been a miracle ; but if he could command miracles at pleasure , what necessity had he to intimate , that he could , if he chose to avail him *

      self of it , pray to his Father to perform one for him on that particular occasion ? From the above considerations , it maybe fairly presumed that our Saviour was vested-with the power of working miracle ? on prefer occasions only ; that is , whenever the performance of theni was subservient to , and -contributed to promote the great objects of his mission ; and that even on thoie occasws it was

      necessary to invoke the aid of the Father by previous prayer . For he expressly says , on various occasions , " I can do nothing of myself , "

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/19/