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liberties with the character of another , as X R has ^ nqt oi ^ tf in the above paragraph but in other parts of h \ s letter , tat&fi with mine , ougbrto be cautious , lest he should , in so ddiiigy have subjected himself to the very saine charges / he has adyaticfed against his opipanenU Although J . S . has professed to qtrore ray language fairly , by placing it between mverted comrii ^ S , tie has been " hardy enough ' grossly to iriisrepresent both iny language and Tny meaning . What I said wais , verbatim ft literatim , a ' s ' follows : " It appears to be a project which 1 ^ siear the heart df Mr , EvansoB , to set aside the belief not xxrity of the inspbation ^ but of the authenticity of several of the Oospels , -and &f those writings which Christians have
universally deemed sacred *; " and when I afterwardsmention ^ r * Evanson as tiiakitig an attack on the whole Christian Scriptiires ^ fronj my imiriediately adducing iti proof of my assertion * his publishmg a book with the title , * The Dissonaftcie of the Four Gospels , ' - * ' and mentioning some parts of the New Tes *
tament he acknoKvledged to be authentic , it was evident to afl your readers , inot excepting J . S . himself , that by the wor ^ ^ scriptures ^ J meant * gospels . " The cavil , therefore ^ at thfe incorrect use of a single word , which by no means obscured ttiy ^ rnea nin ^ ^ t he misrepresentation of niy sentiments , and the ^ liiifounded and indecent" attack on my veracity , might pertiM |)^
justify that language of severe reprehension which ^ n hohest man , feeling fo » r rhis character ^ might on such ian occasion be apt ta use . But as a Christian should be cautious « of retutniii ^ 46 raiKng for railing / ' I shall make no further repl y to thfe persoijal mvective but Shall proceed to state the Sentiments Jf Mr , Evaiisoai ofi the subject in discussion , as they appear in ' the second edition * rf his ' * I > issofiance /* iDnblished a ffew months
beforejhis deaths In the New Testament of Mr . Evaii ^ on , ^ find thtee gospels out of . the four—thp « . e of Matthew 3 Matfe , khdJdhn—rejected afs comprising a colfectioii of / 4 false , bare-faced ^ fictions $ iiil fables , per \* ersibhs of the Old Testaimc ^ t prophecies , which eerve only to shew the ignbrarfce and credulity of the Writers 1 ** the rerii
With re ^ pe ^ t to airiiTig gospel , that of Luke , the niajdr part of it is admitted as Authentic ; at tlje same time it is declared to be u Corrupted with sundry interpolations . " So much folr the Gospdls . With respect to the Epistles ; those addressed to the Romans , lihe Ephesians ^ the Colossians , the PhiJippiails—* - to Titus—to Pfailetaion ( the latter tfc too insignificant" to naerit much attentidtl f !^)—and to the Hebrews : the Epistle of James , the First and Second Epistles of Peter ^ the Epistle of i * * ^ Monthly Repository for May , pu 5 ^ 47 , zqZ . f Dis ¥ ottdnce , J > . 3 m
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JRemarTcson the Writingsof Mr * fcvqnson * 651
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/35/
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