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utxtviliing to recur to ihe Supposition of wilful misrepresentation ) that your correspondent has either not read that controversy * or that he does not understand it . What Mr . E , there contended for was , that under the Christian dispensation there is
* ' no postitive institution of a Sabbath ; " and if ever a controversy was brought to a fair and legitimate conclusion ^ this was by Dr , Priestley ' s conceding , in fact , the only point at issue between therm Before the ' Plain Christian * ' had brought this
charge against Mr . E . he ought to have proved from the Christian Scriptures themselves , as has never yet been done , where and when the observance of a Sabbath was positively enjoined : not having done this * all he has said is very little to the purpose , for to talk of annihilating that which never existed is tod ridiculous to require confutation .
The second very extraordinary charge is , " that MnE . has been long engaged in a prefect which lay near his heart * by an open attack on the whole of the Christian Scriptures ^ to set aside the belief of them , in a manner much more becoming an open infi ^ del than a professed Christian /* Now , Sir ^ that any one who has ever read the writings of Mr . E . could have been hardy
enough to make this indecent , this unfounded accusation > would scarcely have been expected by any person acquainted with him or his writings * Your correspondent acknowledges he has never read the second edition of the " Dissonance /* and if I mayjudge from this assertion - he makes it verv questionable
whether he has ever read the first * The third charge is , that " Mr . E . has rejected some of the clearest evidences of Christianity- ^—the miracles , the doctrines , and the promises of our Saviour—^ and contended for prophecy alone as divine evidence * " The " Plain Christian" concludes
this philippic by saying , he imagines I am " the first person that has informed the world , that a rejection of the peculiar evidences of Christianity is the best mode of displaying it in its native simplicity . " If Sir , I had done so , it would have been , a sad proof , that the impressions made upon my mind from
reading the works of Mr . E . had left it in as contused a state as this writer ' s appears to be in . Mr . E . has no where denied the evidence of well-attested miracles ; he believed firmly iji the resurrection of our Lord as the foundation of Christianity ; he made his precepts the rule of his life , and trusted with confidence to his promises in death . What Mr . E . has said upon the nature of evidence is so clear and distinct , that I should
have thought no person " who has read the " Dissonance" could Imdesignediy have so greatly misstated it . The evidence of well-attested miracles , as I hare observed , he no where denies ; fee $ nly rejects those that are contained in-books , the authenticity
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Vindication of Mr . JEvan&m ' s Memoirs . 363
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/27/
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