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    $ e e ? 4 Higefest $ had assorted that jt& woe ? w ^ should tfeen have a gpod fournteliou to build upon . B # t what they report as the sayjpggr of QtbQtt-. proves nothing in $ & $ csas ^ k . Mr * Sto ne , however , mu&t

    intfoducest bis own opinion , with-# \ tf pretending , to authenticate it fey 3 Jt £ 8 P # t of evidence , when he jpill © Jesus the son . of Joseph . jftul when the Jews used the sam ^ teiiguage , and said , Is sot this Jgsus the son o £ Joseph , whose

    fetber acid mother we know ? $ hey evidently spoke deridingly of &i % , whilst they were actuated with the most malignant hatred , % nA w-ei ? e ready to say and do any $ hing which they thought would

    tepdar him contemptible to the multitude . Tbeir mere opinion therefore goes , for nothing , unless we think ourselves bound to adopt it y poa other occasions , and to assert , because they said- so , that Wwa $ &n impostor , a ^ d ( bat he

    « asfc out demons through Beeu % ^ bub tbo princ e of demons . H erjce ^ it follows , t ^ at four out oi Vhe fiv % ^ ssage&' which Mr . Stone ha ^ prplucedi ia su pport of his

    posj ttoi * are found wanting . The fifth passage -he hiinself appears to tbittok to be Father against him &nn- for . binfc . But he gets rid oi m $ difficulty which enabaitrasses

    Wm h ^ re ^ in tbe * words af ^ fpv fflfi po&edi * hy imi »© ili % t ^ ly dec i ^ . teg that : th # partfutli ^ sitt' \ vas foifp ^ rd into the text bv ^ oitoe # fev the yte ^ Qoic school . Me slioukPnra fc hffljfi shwn th ^ t ^ this pa *< £ t * fcfce $ fe

    l » pt . | q be found in Hiiy < yf tfee ^ t matfu ^ cri pt ^ , or tl ) M the test * € » ouy of tho inimiciU Jmvs i » j ^ le r ^ biQ to that of feutk ^ - » pt w . Stoiau ft * rtlw ? T asa «** fe *« that

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    no intelligent creature can rank as a man , who is 6 ot the joint ' of $ L spring of a man and a * rotft&i ^ aiM in the case of our ILord ' s bifih , of in an and his wife . ' According to this reasoning , Adam wa $ not a man , as he had neither a man for his father nor a woman for his

    mother . For decency sake I pass over the comment upon Dfeulefr ^ - onomy 2 ^? 2 ^ 3 , 24 $ wifh only observing that the two cases all lucked to are » ot parallel , and that God in his wisdom may supersede the intervention of man , and produce that by his power , 6 f whiirfe he usually maJics man the instM *

    ment . To substantiate his assertion , then , that Jesus was really the sojfc of Joseph , Mr . Stone must have recourse to more po % yer ( ul arguments than those which he fe *

    already laid befoi # his readers * He nixifct not be satisfied mth d ^ - diculing what is called a dream or vision ; nor with ridiculm '™ what

    is called the fulfilment of a prophccy 9 when according to th ^ language of the time ** nothing more was meant by this- fulfilsmerit than a mere allusion to the

    prophecy in question . Much less must he presume that he has established his doctrine , by saying * havtng gamed a complete triumph over an impostor who assumes the

    nenne of Matthew ^ ty c . But he must prove by substantial documents ? tftat ,, the- two fi ^ st chapters of MatttoexV , &nd the two tirst eha&ter&bf Luke are paloable forat

    g * ivw& , tfeat i&yt ^ they did not tevlongvto * thaSOriginal Copi ^ b of ifc&fe ' ] j&rwlg ^ Kstfe . \ BU-t'i b is hecio ^ Sr t % 6 t appear to h are yet daae . Fm fhaUt > m « ' of thie contents of th ^ p « M ^ cfeapt ^ rs were not imme di-

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    Inccnclutivcnts ? of Mr . Stone ' s Atgtim * tt 6 ~ 5 ^ S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/23/