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And the typical history of Abraham, &c.

A beautiful illustration of this idea will be found in Mr. Jones's Reflections on the Life, the Death, and Burial of the Patriarchs."

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I am the Almighty GoD.

LET the reader compare this passage in Genesis, chap. xvii. 1. with a subsequent one in chap. xxi. 33. Abraham, it is stated, planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting GOD. Now, if no man could see God and live, and if a being became visible to man, and called himself the Almighty God, must we not allow a distinction of pèrson in an unity of essence under the patriarchal covenant. Besides, this very expression, with various others, Who is GOD, save the LORD-the LORD he is the GOD, &c. if the terms had no particular distinct sense, would' be an unmeaning, if not absurd, tautology. I believe this remark belongs to the excellent author of "Horæ Solitariæ," but I find it in a marginal note of my bible, without a reference.*

* Vide Alix also, p. 203.

SERMON III.

Ir is with pride, though painful remembrance, that I attribute the form and manner of treating this subject to

some notes of the late Bishop of Norwich. Could he have left his spirit with them, it had, indeed, been a legacy to the Christian world, which, at his death, was robbed of one of its brightest ornaments. I could almost say, as Cicero did of Archias-Si quid est in me ingenii, quod sentio quam sit exiguum, I owe that little to his friendship, his conversation, and writings.

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Though the elements be dissolved with fervent heat, &c.

ONCE more Mr. Jones-who for ever makes philosophy the handmaid of religion, and who, in his “ Natural Evidences of Christianity," thus supplies an answer to every doubt about the event:-" The destruction of the "world by fire is the last doctrine I shall take occasion to 66 speak of; which, though never unreasonable, and ad"mitted even by heathens of old time, is now more ap"parent than ever, from the late improvements in experi"mental philosophy. Indeed we may say, the world is "already on fire; for as Sinai, with its smoke and flame,

was a positive, so is every volcano a natural, prelude to

"the burning of the last day. The earth, the air, the "clouds, the sea are all replete with a subtile penetrating "fire, which, while at rest, is neither felt nor observed, " and was absolutely unknown to some of the most learned "for ages; till accidental discovery hath now laid open "the treasures of fire in heaven and earth, to all that "have the use of their sight and senses. The publication "of the philosophy of fire hath been so sudden and so "universal, and is so wonderful in itself, that it seems to "be second to the publication of the Gospel; at least "there is no event in philosophy or literature that comes near to it.

"In this element we live and move; and, perhaps, so "far as our frame is mechanical, we are moved by it. "When excited to action, it turns into a consuming fire, "which no substance can exclude, no force can resist. "The matter of lightning, which seems to break out 66 partially and accidentally, is now found to be constitu❝tional and universal in the system of nature; so that the "heavens, which, according to the language of the scrip"ture, are to melt with fervent heat, want no foreign "matter to convert them into fire. What is called 66 phlogiston, can rise in a moment from a state of quies66 cence to a state of inflammation; and it discovers itself "in many bodies where we little expect to find it. The "earth, and the works that are therein, carry with them "the seeds of their own destruction; and may be burnt

"up by that element which now resides within them, "and is only waiting for the word from its Creator."*

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Infidelity may deny the fact, but it cannot get rid of the evidence, &c.

VIDE "Reflections upon the Books of the Holy Scripture, to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion," by P. Alix; in the second volume of the Bishop of Llandaff's Theological Tracts. Compare the tract also with the rules down by that learned and sagacious divine, Mr. Leslie, for the distinguishing truth from falsehood, in his "Short and easy Method with the Deists," lately published by desire of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, p. 6, et seq.

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When they ignorantly crucified, &c.

VIDE this argument admirably managed by Mr. Whitaker, in his "Origin of Arianism," the force of whose expressions, in one or two instances, I have not scrupled to adopt.

* Jones's Lectures, p. 441, &c.

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In the language of one of them, &c.

VIDE " Scriptural Confutation of the Arguments against the one Godhead of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, produced by the Rev. Mr. Lindsey, in his late Apology," by William Burgh, esq; ch. i. p. 13, et seq. If I have noticed this work in preference to many others, wherein the distinct provinces of reason and faith may be as clearly and accurately defined, it is with the view of recommending to the perusal of every Christian brother a book, that for depth of research and solidity of argument, for its piety, moderation, and firmness, was never surpassed in any age or in any country. I scruple not to call the Confutation of Mr. Lindsey, with the subsequent enquiry by the same author, into the belief of the Christians of the first three centuries, the most full and compleat refutation of error that eyer graced the annals, or confirmed the doctrines, of Christianity.

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They were to be welcomed by an innumerable company of angels.

THE reader will find this subject treated in the most interesting and peculiar manner in a sermon of Dr. Horne's.-Vol. iv. Disc, 14. All the angels stood round about the throne.