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    signed which , in fact , is nothing « K > re than tn unavoidable consequence < j ( a particular event or measure ( Rom . v . 20 —&c . &c . )« If these remarks fail to satisfy us , we shall , nevertheless , admit . thai the best expositor of the words

    of Christ is Christ himself . Look then at Luke xii . 51 , and all doubt will be removed . — " Suppose ye that 1 am come to give peace on earth , 1 tell you , nay , 9

    &ut rather division . He here returns to a subject avhich he had touched upon before , in this very chapter ( Matt . X . 21 ) . and he now enlarges on ihe fact , and points out its proper

    nppljcation , Not only so : as if to obviate the possibility and the suspicion of ambiguity , he sub » - joins to his language , *•* Think not , &c . " an explantion of it : * ' for I am come to set a man at

    variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law ; and a man ' s foes ( Micah vii . 6 ) shall be those of his own household . " Thus he

    predicted that the Jewish and the idolatrous members of a family , would be the bitterst enemies of those under the same roof who worshipped the one living God , in the name of Jesus Christ . Matt . xx . 9 . fc < when they came that were hired about the eleventh

    hour , they received every man a penny . ' 1 here transcribe , with the view of refuting it , an observation of Mr . Evanson ' s , who says , *

    " - * - > in this parable , though the labourers who had wrought the entire day , having received the bare payment they had earned ,

    ? Diasgnance , &c . ajo , gjuk Uu 4 ? d . )

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    Iliad certainly no right to cprnritam ot ' injustice in the ' riousehbiiler , nor to cotifrdul his geneiosfty towards the others , iii giving , t $ e | ji more than they had earned ; yet surely they fnust feel the great difference between his mere jus .

    tice to themselves and his extraordinary liberality to those who had wrought biit one hour , and we Cannot wonder that they murrnur . ed at so seemly unreasonable a preference and paitialiiy i ' ri the distribution of his bounty . *'

    Now , the slightest perusal of the sixth and seventh verses , may satisfy us , that preference and partiality had no concern ~ in tnjs transaction , but that trie

    householder proceeded on the eauitable principle of rewarding J ^' the willing mittd , " which , iro $ '' c \ rm cumstances beyond its-cohtfoul , could not fulfill all its wishes . It

    is no irrational inference jfroAi these verses , that th& labourers hired after ah early Hour in the morning , would cheerfCitl y Vave worked the whole day , * fiWd' tKeir

    services been simuTtaheoiisiy € ^ u gaged , in sufficient titne » The parable of ttie labourers in the vineyard , is referred by Mr . Cappe to the case of the apostles , * by Mr . Ketirick , ( txjios . in loc . ; t ) to ihat of individual . meti uhdier

    the gospel dispensation . I' [ cannot but be of opinion , tf&jf it ' represents the itieasures of Diviri ^ Prpvid ^ qe in different frgefc , aWd er ^ jn ^ nljjy among these events the calling of the Gentiles anfl the jnurmprs ^ f the Jews , who compTaiAed'ho ' so much that the Heathens '

    wercTaSmitted into a state "fof Mcdvenant with Gad , as that tEey Were a ( ii _ in iftina . i

    ' ¦ ' ni . nu > ¦ . ^ .. ¦ . ¦ m > , i VI I VM ' '' "" r * Life of ChMe ^ ft ^^ Af . f ' * *

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    ^* AddiiidndlCdntribiitions to Scriptural Critttlsh .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 458, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/34/