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Estsev Simi * JptU 2 > 1 & 27 * To the Editor * Sin , One would suppose from the language of your correspondent W , H * Rowe , that I was the first and almost the only person , ia modern times , who ? had ever called in question the genuineness ox the prefaces to Mattbew arc ! Luke * I suppose he has never heard of such writers a « Th + WilKaiaas- and Miehaelis , not to mention Dr . Priestley and Mr * Evanson , &c « , &ev
. But it u not my intention to enter into the controversy , . I have far some time been placed on the invalided list , and have no inclination to return ta the battle . My only object was to remark on the great ; wawt of courtesy in my assailant : Co which I can only reply , that he is perfectly safe im using whatever language he pleases , as he may rest assured that it will sever be retorted by , Sir , yours , &c * T . BELSfiAJML
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As Mr . Rowe appears to have concluded this part of bis subject * * to the consideration of which this paper will be strictly confined , it is hoped that he will not feel himself unfairly dealt with * by a premature examination of what : he has advanced , especially as it seems impossible that any thing should be added to reseue him from the dilemma in which it will be attempted to be * proved that he is already involved .
It ought not to be forgotten , that the doubts respecting the genuineness of the chapters in question are not of recent suggestion , and that there is , a $ least s probable authority for believing that , by some sectsy in the earliest ages of Christianity , they were rejected as spurious . Their original admission by the church , and subsequent continuation to the present time , as part of the Scripture canon , are in themselves but inefficient arguments in their favour : since , when we consider how soon after the apostolic age the church acceded
to the pestilent adoption of the almost Pagan governments of those days , ; and infamously prostituted its spiritual interests to the acquisition of temporal power and worldly aggrandizement , by which it learnt the policy of exciting and perpetuating superstition as the surest means of betraying , the liberty of the multitude , and enhancing its own secular domination , it ceases to be a
wonder how such excrescences should have been first ingrafted and after- * wards perpetuated amongst the genuine writings of the evangelists . In the discussion , however , of the claims of these chapters to reception , diffidence in the partizans of either side is certainly more becoming than overweening confidence ; and above all , a sneering and supercilious style of , treating the subject , or an opponent , ought to be carefully avoided .
Whoever has minutely compared the several histories of the nativity of our Saviour attributed to Matthew and Luke , must have been struck with the very remarkable circumstance that they coincide in only two particulars ,, ii ¦ - .., ..- i j 11 - r i ~ r ¦ —T . * This communication was received soon after tine appearance of Mr . Rowe ' a nr »* paper in our number for March , Edit .
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REMARKS ON MR . W . H . ROWE S VINDICATION € > F TWE AttrHgjmCfftf AJstt * CONSISTENCY * OF THE PRELIMINARY OIIAF ^ BHS II » WFATffl ^ W * A 3 * B LUKE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/15/
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