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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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Now what if four gospels were given , describing thetiistory of the ^ irth an 4 ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ , with a reference to these four general states ? to be divine streams of truth and wisdom , possessing , respectively , these general qualities ? to form the unfailing rivers of the Christian Parardise , —the church , —supplying to its inhabitants the waters of life ? I throw out this suggestion , not as a certain truth , but because , to me , it yields a probable reason for the number of the gospels , and because it includes ideas , which , as we shall see presently , tend considerably to clear up the mystery of
their varying statements . To me , also , it appears quite evident , that the obviously distinct characters of the several gospels tally remarkably with those which this view supposes . Will not all who venerate these sacred narratives confess , that the Gospel of John displays the highest order of the illumination here alluded to , treating more openly of the highest subjects of divine illumination , which are the true nature and character of Him whose history it
relates , and the necessity of love to his name ? that the Gospel of Luke , with its sweet delineations of charity , and luminous statements of so many essential truths , ranks next in clearness ? and that those of Matthew and Mark , though fully imbued with the same spirit , treat their subjects in a more external manner , or clothe them with a somewhat thicker veil , and are to the former , respectively , what the north and west are to the south and east ?"—Pp .
581—585 . If it had been the author ' s object , by an extravagant caricature , to turn his whole system into burlesque , he surely could not have done it better . Nevertheless , as far as we can judge , he appears to be perfectly serious *
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Akt . V . — Personal Sketches of his own Times . By Sir Jonah Barrington , Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland . 2 Vols . 8 vo . London . 1827 . This is an entertaining narrative , by
a good-natured , garrulous old gentleman , of his life and times ; from which some curious insights may be obtained of the anomalies of Irish politics and character . We shall only indulge our readers with an entertaining sketch of the history of the rise and progress of the party opinions of tne family .
•* The anomaly of political principles among the Irish country gentlemen at that period was very extraordinary . They professed what they called * unshaken JpyaJty ; ' and yet they were unqualified partizaqs of Cromwell and William , two decided U 8 urper »~~ o $ v of them having 4 te ~ throned bis fyther-ia-law , tmd the other decapitated his Icing . decapitated his king .
* ' The jfiftU of $ ovember was celebrated in Dublin for the preservation of tt Scottish king from gunpowder in London : then the thirtieth of January \ yas much approved of by a great numtyer of Irish , as the anniversary of mailing h } s son , Charles the First , shorter by tjje head : and then the very eanie Irish celebrated the restorailoir of Charles the
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Second , who was twice as bad as his father ; and whilst they rejoiced in putting a crown upon the head of the son of the king who could not quietly keep his own head on , they never failed to drink bumpers to the memory of Old Noll , who had cut that king ' s head off . To conclude , in order to commemorate
the whole story , and make th € ir children remember it , they dressed up a fat calf's heajl on every anniversary of King Charles's throat being cut , and with a smoked ham placed by the side of it , all parties partook thereof most happily , washing down the emblem and its accompaniment with as much claret as they could hold .
* ' Having thus proved their loyalty to James the First , and their attachment to his son ' s murderer , and then their loyalty to one of his grandsons , to another of whom they were disloyal , they next ; proceeded to celebrate the birthday of William of Otfange , a JDutebiwau , who turned their king , his father-iu-law ,
out of the country , a ^ d wh , o in all probability , would have given the Irish another calf ' s head for thejr celebration , if his said father in-Jaw had upt got out of the way with the utmost expedition , aud gone to Uve upon cjhority in France , with the natural enemies of tfte British nation .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/58/
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