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ix . 35 . xxiv . 14 . Mar . i . 14 " . Eph . vi * 15 " . Actsx . 36 . Lukcxvi . 16 . ITcnce every doctrine disagreeing with the doctrine of Christ is called another gospel . 2 Cor . xi . 4 . Gal . i . 6 ~ . But the death of Christ , his resurrection , ascension into heaven , and the gifts of the holy spirit , by all which he was declared to be the Son of God , attested the truth of the doctrine and the certainty of ihe promise repealed by him . Hence the gospels consist of two parts , doctrine , and history confirming the doctrine . A witness o £ his resurrection . Peter says , must be ordained out of those
who had conversed with Christ from , the time that John began to baptize , till he himself was taken up into heaven . Acts i . 22 , And he elsewhere * cha p * x , 37 , calls the principles whieh were published through Judea , beginning in Galilee , after the baptism which John preached , the word . Luke describes his treatise as a narrative of those things which Jesus did and taught from the time he began to teach and work miracles , even till he was taken up . Acts i . 1 , 2 . The first miracle which he
performed , was at Cana ^ m Galilee , John n . 11 . after he had been baptized by Jofin ; which happened in his thirtieth year . Luke iii . 23 . In this instance it was the willof God , that the law , which did not admit the Levites to their sacred office before that age , should be observed by Christ . Num . i-v . 3 . 47 . 1 Chron . xxiiL 3 . The relations of his divine origin by the apostle Joha , of his human descent by Matthew and Luke , and of the pledges . of bis future character in the temple given by the last writer ;
are to be looked upon as prefaces , to point to and recommend the person , from whom each gospel would derive its authority * Therefore as nothing relative to his great office was done by Christ before that mature age , the former period is properly passed over in silence by the sacred writers ; for he spent his life till then in privacy and in subjection to his supposed father and mother . Luke ii . 51 V Hence he was not only called
tbxIcvos- U 10 S-, the Son of a carpenter . Matt . xiii . 35 , but he is described as rsiflcov , a carpenter . Mark vi . 3 . Justin Martyr speaks of his making ploughs and yokes and other articles / In the books of the Old Testament , you will observe that often nothing is said of the prophets f ill the word of the Lord came unto them : that is till the time ( kvoc ^ bi ^ bcos ccvl cov ttoos tov IcxpctrjX .,
till their showing unto Israel , as it is expressed by Luke . c . i . SO . This is the circumstance intimated in , the phrase , " a prophet arose . " , x REMARKS . The reason ^ assigned by Grotius , in the preceding passage , for tire plaice of the livan ^ lists , concerning the private period of Christ * *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/3/
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