Jenks's Portland gazette., 1802-06-28

| lfances attending the fri delivery of the doc
trine BY Jefus Chria and bis apoltles, and Their
relation % the difpenfaton given by Mofes.
But let Us attend little 10 the words Of our
fermoni ger, and Zee bow this knewledge is to
be expected, and by What means Page IL
:. The fanaticsl teachers pretend that they have
+" thofs viiions and voices Of Goj, of angels
I" and other iprits, which the deiis demand for
g ihemfelves before they will believe. Both
/" Join iu oPpoting The education, audy an fup-
/" port of common teachers. but for fferent
g resons. The fanatics, becaufe they pretend
= to have all qualifications directly from hea
I" ven, without any pans and fiuiy of theirs ;
g and the deits, becaufe they want no miniIters.
Bosh FAY, God can fupport hs Own caufe
" without miniiters' True he can. And h
!. can give US bread from heaven, without huf
8. bancmen, He did this, one while, for Ifrael
j" in the wiliernefs. SO he can fuppcrt civil
g foeiety without msgiRrates And he has
/" bitten executed jud ginent, in lhe earth, with.
g ont magiitrates, TO make his power and glory
g known, as moral governor. With God all
things are pofible, and as eaGly accomplished
" without means and minilters as with tnem.-
" All thing $ ihewn Us for his CORY, or in other
g words, every gift, given for our good, i
" the work and eaufe OF God well as reli
g gion. .. God wifely gives
:: us favors, in the ufe OF that attention and
"exertion of ours, which are necehary 10 the
growth of every faculty and virtue. And he
/" feems rever to have departed from this me-
'' tht d, when our attention and exertion could
/" be pied. So here; TO teach mankind, what
" they could not otkerwfe know, on vsri US
. occaGons, requiring fpeciai new revelations.
I" he gave fctne prophets and apolslSs But
" that it might not be necefary 70 come down,
g vlfbly, from his msjeltic heighs, to every
8 ore. every where, at every hour. he cauied
" thoie revlatfons 70 be rhenric ated. by fpns
= foi9qving, ard TO be qvritsen far learning -
" Without thefe miracles OF prophet or iigns
8 of an apofte. that is dofng aork vv6;cb no one
/" eond do, EXCEPT God qvsre evib bin, no one was
I" received as fuch. The priefts and teaching
:" levites were appointed, to record, prtferve,
" narftribe, expound and improve the doctrine
8: of the prophets, without Bringing new reveia
/" tions. In ike manner, pattors ard teachers
" OF The doctrine of ChriR and his apoRles are
" conf ed 10 that d. & inc As their k1qD and feh
" nogy, according 10 <Ubicb, IF they 5cak nct, 10.
:" Read OF having better liehi and inaruGor,
g as fome boat, they have 70 light in them.-
All extraordinary ninifers muf have finifhed
" theIr teitimony and ceafed, ever ince thofe
" miracles have ceafed, which were necetary
I" to prove their milton ard neGage from God.
6 But as Chria has promiled % be wif5 bis min
s Rers alzvays syen to tie end of the qpora, fome
" mniRers mutt continue 70 loog; and who are
"they. bot thoie pators and .eschsrs or elders,
qoks qoers TO be ordained, in evayebucb and city,
q and who were alike uieful in all timss,"-
This paragraph, in my efima ion, contains the
foundet philofophy and harmonic, with reye-
revelation. | with the Baptifs md Quskers
would candidy examine this lubjea, and read
with attention this iefmon. always lamentcds
and it i, among the greatea ohjetlio, have 70
the views Of chriaianuy, 70 far as am acquain-
ted with it, entertained by thefe honeh and in
creating feets, that they both eem TO undervaiue
human learning and icience - The latter rarely
educate their children al colleges and femina les
OF learning eaabiibed in all nations aud appro-
we'd by the praace of ages-anl the former
too frequently elea very ignorant perfons for
their techers in religious lubjea. That peo
pie NAV be good, virtuous and honef, though
ignorant, Is not doubted but fomerhing beiides
thefe qualities are requilite to make good
teacher. The fubjet Of this ftrmon is an in
portant one; and it ihall he taken up again
hereafter, as 1t is connected with the Conaitu
tion of This State. In the mean time Ifublcribe
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.