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    % * h * fc < d ecisive i % nii £ p 9 $ * tiye mantfc 6 t whjch > heiasstmie « ^ bfcaoae J *^ fce § i s ^ > # MI ^^ s'de * of $ ie question , taMto * ; agy are ~ 4 k * t :-r oyvgysfccMmsfeir ^ fteeMrpm them , though i > thinte ttmt it-is liable : > to thei fewest . tdBufc beris mistaken in suppos £# ^ fcbat 1 have - a ykxlerit totipo-tb y ^ lo the , Uoita-< rians ^ as s ^ ich . J feao w many , who are ; humble , pious , and candid .

    They , dislike the doctrines of the divituty and atonem ^ tit of Christ , "because ihey tihlpk they militate against - the supremacy Aand ; free mefjCy of Qo $ , I ; respect such motives , thougb . 1 regard them as unfounded . ? J&i \ tn \ have a ^ v ave r-

    sion to that light and ludicrous l $ apner in ; which ? some of : ^ hem speakarjd write oa reiigipus subjf £ tfe »» j ; ; I dmlifc ^ Ittot i sgeerjng , contemptuous majftn 0 n which Jhey 5 U |» um ^ a ^ though wisdom resiclqd

    Ofiply with them ; &n < d the epithets vifibsyrdkiiid cop ^ r ^| C # / i ^ y , ; which they give 9 \ p ophu ^ as Ith at are entertaiiK'd j ? y itic n of a $ T * great it ariiing and . abil i ^ i ^ s , as / tbtmselves . Kq » cmivl : approve , < rf the ; conduct of th < ise Wsiho ate fn ^ re desirous lie

    to ^ stubj ^ h t uiiity w tbe , rtjviiie . nature ^ ih&ft 10 Me irt ^ rfe c a , 4 < M <^ Ut tamper erf mind , an 4 TOi » j ; e jealous . ia rtfnovinfft uhat th ^ y rc « aid as : the corrupnops of , CKiiilti < iiuty ^ than ir ) promotingu Christian teip- , per and cpruluct » / , In his 6 < b il ^ tfar , Mr , B . has

    Dot given , a very fair arid c&ndid » tiite | n ^ ni , ot riiy sn-ntiin ij ^^ s on < | ie tinNUi |; ation of t l * ek Scriptuf £ » . The ^ ubj ^ ct is certainly attended with dijEucttlticsi , but though it

    W 0 f 4 {{ be trej > pa ^ i ng too much upcufiyou , Sir , toeriter fully mto iV ll ) cttamoi jpass f > y what my ^^^ r ^ Pi ^ p H ^^ b t > ur uot being born unti ) after the

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    < deHtfc of Hc ; rod the , Great . > I crwn that I : wa § much - surprised at his Tboidycjeclai : 4 tion . > *• - It appears * d < "inonsfcrable from otbe hiatory of ^ JUq k ^ ithat iesus wa § qot born : tfll * upsrajrds dfv twp t , aiid probably , up-- ^ % rc [ s--of three years after the death * pf j that inhuman tyrant . " If this rbe ^ t&e . case , . thei ^ /\ v e must either give up the credibility of St . Mat .

    ; thi ^ w as an historian ^ or acknowledge . that the first chapters of hia-gos . - pei are spurious . M . y friend op . * po ^ es dates to tacts , » but the ques . j tion is , whether w « have * any better - evidence of the exactness of . the

    ; date ? , than we have < rf , the reality . of the facts to wMch they are op . , posed . It is n <> easy matter to ascertain the time : of , Herod ' s death , or the co * nmencemc nt of th ^ reign of Tiberius . Dr .. Lardner siippose 9 that the i-fiftecnth yjjSar , of > his ; re ^ u w ^ s reckowd

    -from the time ot bis being Emperor jointly witfe Augustus , and noj ^ from the peri od \ oi his being ^ ole Ernpe ror .. This renioves the . difficulty , respecting ' . the age of

    ^ JbrijTiv for he , woul < i then be in his tlj » rty-fii > t year .. The same learned Author ( after considering all .. the difficulties on ^ tho subject ) \ s of opinion tliat Christ was . about

    a year and a half . old at the death H ^ rodf , li tbesij ^ n ^ e of Josepbus be co ^ sj i . der . ed asV a sufficient objection against the massacre of th § mfar ^ ts , it would t be equalty ^ rS obj ection against many other facts recorded in : the New

    Testar ^ ent , . It js . acknowledged that the Ebionites possessed a copy of St . Matthew ,, in which the first and « econd [ chapters were waiitingi but Epjrpha ' nitts say * ' that ^ fe ^ copy of " theirs wa ^ ; p | t * tlyfe W * f corrupted . , Against this negative evidepcQ \ yhic | i 4 ^ v fxkxid ^ dd » r

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/26/