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Bueod by our author to prove the genuineness of the books of the New Testament in general . It would have been wonderful if the learned work of Jeremiah Jones upon the canon had been omitted among the books of reference under this head . A
merited encomium is passed upon ifr , and praise is justly bestowed on the university of Oxford for re-printing it , ( notwithstanding it is the production of a noncon - formist ) at the Clarendon press : — -
to the honour of the managers of that establishment it may be added that they fix a very moderate and easy price upon this publication , as well as upon others over which they have ^ control \ giving , in this respect , a fair example to the sister university .
The credibility of the history contained in the New Testament is argued by Mr . B . with concise . ness and strength , upon the usual principles , ( pp . 45 — 53 , ) In the list of books to which he directs
his readers for further satisfac tion concerning it we are happy to perceive Dr . Maltby ' s Illustrations of the truth of the Chris-, tian religion ^ —whi £ h arc a fine specimen of the aid afforded by classical taste and learning to the study of theology .
From p . 53 to 6 Q , the preacher treats on the evidence of two facts of peculiar importance , namely the resurrection of Christ , and the gift of the holy spirit ; and in the remaindf t of the discourse he endeavours to account for the light and limited impression that * was made by the Christian miracles ; the true solution of which difficulty , he observes , is to be
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found in the power of fixed principles and inveterate prejudices to repel and overcome , the most pdl * paBle evidence , —a triumph sufficiently visible in regard to the doctrine of transuWahtiation , and to the Athinasian hypdtlresis of the trinity . ( 69—74 . 1
In p . 68 , we meet with soma very sensible rftnarks oh the evi * dehce furnished by the epistles of Paul in behalf of Christianity , and on the wisdom of Divine Providence in permitting those fierce contentions and gross abuses t . o > spring up in the primitive Church *
which are often the wonder of believers and the scoff of sceptics ^ ( note 26 . ) As to the continuance of miraculous jjowers after the apostolic age , Mr , B . affirms that no intelligent and well-informed person now Contends for it ( note
27 . ) We doubt , however , whether it have not still advocates whos 6 intelligence and information , on other subjects at least , it would be difficult to deny .
We now proceed to our author ' s third discourse , in which the prophetic and internal evidence of th <* Christian revelation is placed before us , from John xx . 31 . The prophecies contained in the Christian scriptures are first ; considered .
To the validity of an argument from prophecy three conditions are here stated to be reel uisite .
" First , ftat there \ s 7 ionld ] be sufficient evidence that the prophecy was delivered previously to the event ;—secondly , that the circumstances predicted be beyond the reach of human sagacity to foresee 5 —arul thirdl y ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/49/
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