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- According to Mr . Mierman , Syndic of Rotterdam , paper was first manufactured from linen rags between the years 1270 and 1302 ; and he came to that conclusion , after much laborious research , and after having collected from different parts a great number of memoirs , in consequence of having , in the year 1762 , offered a premium for the earliest public instrument on paper made of that material .
Father Montfaucon also , who made a most diligent search throughout France and Italy , could discover no book on this paper prior to the said vear 1270 . y In the Tower of London is an ancient letter from the King of Spain to our first Edward , written upon paper , for which there is the authority of Mr * North , who says ( Archaeologia , Vol . X . ) , that he saw it , and he speaks of it as " the oldest specimen of paper now perhaps remaining , date 1272—1278 ; " but he does not say whether the paper was made of cotton or of linen rags .
It is ascertained , however , that there is a specimen more ancient by twenty-seven years than the oldest of the above dates . The specimen alluded to is a charter seven inches long and three broad , on paper similar to what is in general use at this day , having been made of linen rags ; it is in the Emperor ' s library at Vienna , and Mr . Schwandner , the principal librarian , calculates , that it was written in the year 1243 . There is a copy of Mr . Sehwandner ' s Essay in the British Museum . W . H . ROWE .
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( Continued from page 336 . ) 4 . The evidence supplied by the books of the New Testament in favour of the authenticity and credibility of the prophetical writings , is of the most valuable kind . Most of these books were undoubtedly the productions of men who were Jews both by birth and education ; but who , nevertheless , regarded the religion of Jesus as essentially distinct from that of Moses . Their testimony , therefore , while it differs in some respects from that of
later Jewish and Christian writers , may be considered as uniting the characteristic excellences of both . Their Jewish education presupposes an acquaintance with the Jewish Scriptures , and establishes their competency to bear testimony to the existence and contents of the books of the Hebrew prophets in common use at the time in which they wrote ; and their acknowledgment of Jesus as a teacher superior to Moses , detaches them , as it were , from the Jewish body , and gives to their testimony an independent and unbiassed character .
This testimony , however , derives great value from the nature and contents of the books of the New Testament , as well as from the peculiar character sustained b y the authors of those books . The Gospels , regarded in the light of histories , contain little more than an account of the great controversy between our Lord and the Jews concerning the true nature of the Messian ' s character and kingdom ; and this controversy is resumed by the followers of Jesus , in the Acts of the Apostles , and carried on , with scarcely any intermission , between them and the unbelieving Jews , from the beginning to the end of that interesting narrative . In the course of this
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Canonical Authority of the Books , of the Prophets . 497
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CANONICAL AUTHORITY OF THE BOOKS OF THE PKOPHETS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/25/
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