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Art . IV .-r-A Summary View of the Evidence and Practical Importance of the Christian Revelation , in a Series of Dis + courses addressed to young Persons ^ by Thomas Belsham ' % Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in Essex Street . Johnson 1807 . pp . 204 . 8 vo . * . ( Continued from page 20 S . )
THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION forms the subject of the second discourse , from Luke i . 1—4 , in vrhich , says Mr . B " We may observe upon what grounds the sacred historian rests the credit of his narrative : not upon those of plenary inspiration , or divine' suggestion , but upon the common foundation of direct historical evidence . " ( p ^ 3 i . )
Deserved praise is bestowed , in a note , ( 1 ) on Marsh ' s translation of Michaelis ' s invaluable Intro - duction , &c ; and 3 , wish is ex ^ pressed , in which we most cordially join , that the learned annotator aad translator would complete what he has so ably begun .
/\ vocations very foreign to the clerical profession seem to have diverted him from an undertaking which , though not perhaps highly profitable to himself , ia a secular view , would , nevertheless , have been of considerable benefit to many of his countrymen .
In the same note JVIri B . can-. not forbear adding , that it would Jt > e a most desirable accession to English biblical literature , if some scholar equally qualified ,-if such there be , would perform the same office for Eichoin , which Mr . Marsh has performed for iMichaelis . To this opinion also we
unreservedly subscribe ; and we trust that in the rising r < icc of biblical scholars among us someone will be found who answers to this description , and who will ful-# 1 this service .
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The direct HiSTORicAi . argument first establishes the genuine * ness aad credibility of the books of the New Testament , and from these premises infers the truth and divine authority of the Christian religion , ( p . 354 )
Ui the genuineness 01 the books * of the New Testament the proofs are the same in kind with those of the genuineness of other ancient writings , and in degree at least equal , in man y instances , and upon the whole , superior ( pp . 35—45 . ) A distinction , however , must be made , in this respect , between different books of the Christian covenant ., From the information of
Edsebius * it appears that the genuineness of some of them had , in his time , never been called in question , while that of others had been controverted by the earlier writers : yet no books were admitted into the canon of aposto - lical writings without due and impartial previous examination .- — Some moderns ( among whom are
Dr . Lardner , and ^ more recentl y ^ Dr . J > hn Jebbjf have contended for the genuineness of the epistlg of Barnabas : but it is . generally rejected as spurious . To that of Jude Michaelis , J like Mx . B objects that it appears to contain .
* Of Csesarea . f Works , Vol . II . pp . 143 , 154 . J Introduction to the N / T . Vol . iv . pp . 36 3- ^ 394 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/47/
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