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    for your satisfaction . I would fain send with them one sheet , ( in vindication of my accused life and loyalty , and of positive proofs that I meant not to accuse the Church of England , and of the danger of exposing the clergy to charges of thoughts and meanings

    as prejudice shall conjecture , ) but for fear of displeasing you by length . For Expositions of Scripture to be thus tried by such juries , as often as they are but called seditious , is not the old way of managing Church differences ; and of what consequence you

    will easily judge- If your Lordship be satisfied that I am no enemy to the Church , and that my punishment will not be for its interest , I hope you will vouchsafe to present my petition to his Majesty , that my appeal to the

    Church may suspend the sentence till my Diocesan , or who his Majesty shall appoint , may hear me , and report their sense of the cause . By which your Lordship will , I doubt not , many ways serve the wellfare of the Church as well as Oblige your Languishing Humble Servant .

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    this life with guilt and misery , and that he might thus secure to us a better inheritance . " Vol . II . p . 669 . 2 . The spotless purity of the Son of God . his mediation on behalf of

    mankind , the assurance of divine forgiveness given through him to the penitent , and the promise of eternal life , sealed by his death and resurrection , to the virtuous , are the great truths which distinguish the gospel ,

    and constitute its very nature and object as good news to the world . The sum and substance of tlie same good news are thus recognised and enforced in the following passage of Pbilo : " It becomes him , who devotes himself to

    the Father of the universe ^ to employ as his intercessor his owrn Son , who is most perfect in virtue , in order that he might obtain the forgiveness of his sins , and the supply of every good . " Vol . II . p . 155 .

    3 . Jesus commissioned his apostles to go and reform the world . Iunpracticable as this commission might appear to human views , the preachers succeeded in a wonderful manner * Multitudes in every country , hitherto devoted to vice and superstition ,

    became , under the influence of the gospel , bright examples of piety , benevolence and moral purity . Now this very fact is verbally asserted by Philo : for he speaks of a society in Palestine , Egypt and other parts , who engaged in the design of enlightening and

    reforming the world . Such was the character of its members , that , according to him , no powers of language could adequately describe their wisdom and virtue . " These men , " says he , " call themselves Therapeutce , healers or worshipers , and this , with propriety .

    —either as professing- a medical art superior to that which is practised in the world : for the latter profess to heal only the bodies , while the former cure the souls of men , when seized by disorders , fierce and scarcely remediable - y when occupied by lusts and

    depraved indulgences ., by ignorance , iniquity , and innumerable multitudes of vices and bad passions ;—or they so designate themselves as having learnfc from nature and the holy laws of Moses to worship that Great Reality , who is supreme in goodness , and who is one , original and uncmrmouruled in

    essence . " Vol . II . p . 4 / 1 . 4 . The amazing diffusion of the

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    Dr . Jones ' s Summary of the Evidence of Philo being a Christian . 149

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    Dr . Jones ' s Summary of the Evidence of Philo being a Christian . PHILO was a Jew of Alexandria , of high rank and contemporary with Jesus , and he was distinguished not less by virtue , integrity and honour , than by his learning , talents and

    eloquence . The following brief statement from his works will place it beyond all reasonable doubt , that he was not only a believer in Christ , but that he was an apologist of the gospel and its votaries in Palestine and Egypt . 1 . The fundamental principle of the

    New Testament is , that God commissioned an eminently favoured servant , who is called the Word of God , the Son of God , or the Image of God , to give niankind a full assurance on the important question of a future state , and to teach by his precepts and

    example the necessity of repentance and reformation as the indispensable condition of attaining eternal happiness . This fact is stated by Philo in the following words : ** God , the author of divine virtue , determined to send his image from heaven to the earth , In compassion on our race , that he might wash away the impurities which fill

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/21/