10 Nov r 1815

Not Paul First loose Extracts

Ch. 1

I 1 to 17 Immaterial ‘I am ready to preach the Gospel to you.

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Persons unnamed censured as idolators I 18 to 23

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I. 23 to 32. Sins produced by their idolatry.

A miscellaneous and indistinctly expressed list. Tribadism and paederasty confounded with non sexual ones.

James’s Epistle

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I. 13 God tempts no man

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I. 22 to 26 Do as well as hear the word.

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Pure religion is to visit fatherless and widows as he be unspotted — v. 27.

Respect not the rich man than the poor. 4. II. 1 to

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Faith without works is nothing. II. 14 to 26.

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Whoso keeps the whole law and yet offends in one point is guilty of all. II. 10

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III. Abuse of the tongue condemned in figurative generals with a few particulars.

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IV. General good behaviour recommended in general terms— life uncertain.

V and last The rich are exposed to misfortune— Against injustice God’s coming will be a . Patience is good. Swear not. Anoint and pray for the sick. Confess one to another. Elias kept off and brought on rain by faith. God to convert them who err from the truth.

Hebrews

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I. Passim, Gratuitous applications of the Psalms to Jesus.

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II. Then in this: also the advantage of God Jesus’s taking man’s nature.

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III. More of the Psalms — i.e. (v. 7) the Holy Ghost.

Logic 4

III. 17. 18. 19. Some of the Israelites died in the two years in the wilderness: therefore they were unbelievers: therefore we ought to be believers.

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Nonsense in Logical form.

IV. Nonsense about rest: with the forms of reasoning in and therefore: rest being in the Psalms.

Ergo we ought to believe. He having felt our infirmities will shew us mercy. (God the Father would not know how it is with us.)

Logic 6

James is a priest: for David called him so. Hebrews shudder for not understanding this.

Logic 7

VI. VII. Melchisedec receives tithes of Abraham and was immortal: therefore so is Jesus.

Moses’s God foolish.8

VIII. God’s first covenant with the Jews through Abraham was so bad a thing that it was necessary to make a through Jesus.

Logic 9 phantastic

IX. X. Details about the Temple familiar. Blood of Goats a poor shift for washing sin away in comparison of Jesus’s. those from the Psalms. backsliding!

Hebrews

Faith 10

Chief incidents in the Old Testament alluded to. Faith the cause of all. XI. 1 to 40. the end.

Inhumanity to Children enjoined

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XII. The more you are plagued enjoined the better. A son who is not flogged by his father is a bastard. 1 to 11

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XII. Jesus’s covenant is better than Abel’s —

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XII. 16. Fornicators coupled with profane persons who are like Esau who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat. God a consuming fire —

Hospitableness — motives for

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XIII — Entertain strangers, for some of them may be angels. 2.

Marriage approved

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XIII. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Covetousness censured

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Content lauded

ib. 5 Covetousness bad; content good.

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XIII. 7 Had to remember

II. Cor. XI. about his sufferings.

With ambitions consummate and II. Cor. VI 14 to 18.

The Son subject to the Father Cor. XV. 28

Jesus after resurrection seen by 500 brethren at once: the twelve and Cephas Cor. XV. 6.

Cephas Peter undoubtedly called Cephas Cor. XV. 5.

Hebrews

The whole of the Epistle to the Hebrews seems a chip in porridge. Much stated nonsense: yet not so much as in that to the Romans. All that is not nonsense is folly.

Whatever he picks out of the Psalms or elsewhere are predicated of any body he please, not particularly of Jesus.

Explicit Hebrews.

Fasting Cor. VIII. 8

He pleads for profit Cor. IX 1 to 27 the end: and XVI. II. Cor I.11

Fornication the sin of copulating with foreigners as per Numb. XXV. 9. Cor. X. 8

Heathen Gods are devils Cor. X. 20. 21. 22.

All things are lawful for one Cor. X. 23: Suprà

Let no man seek his own every man another’s wealth Cor. X. 24

Account of the Lord’s supper and the effects of it Cor. XI. 23 to 29. For eating it unworthily many are such, and some died. N.B. This seems to men getting drunk &c and so hurting themselves.

Miracle—working a labour ranking after several others Cor XII. 9. 10. 28.

Charity the most valuable gift Cor. XIII. 1. to 13 the end.

Prophecy means eloquence nothing else Cor. XIV so let it abide XIII &c