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    can be thought of to account for and illustrate an acknowledged fact , can be proved erroneous , that one must be true . Now , it so happens , that I am among

    those , . who think that , if Mr . Farmer made a complete enumeration of all the hypotheses , ( his own being included , ) which can be devised for explaining the fact erf * Christ ' s temptation , the true

    otie is among those which he exploded * , and that his ought to be placed among them in its stead . Iy therefore , beg leave to state the grounds , on which I have been

    dissatisfied with his hypothesis for a long series of years . The hypothesis , in which my mind lias acquiesced during that period , is- very similar to Mr ,. Thomas Dixon ' s , of Bolton , or Mr ..

    Newcome Cappe ' s , of Yorky and is one which occurred to * my thoughts long before I had heard of the existence of the former gentleman ' s

    piece on the subject , and much longer still , before I enjoyed the pleasure of seeing any of the latter gentleman ' s valuable works . Had JVTivN . -C . favoured the world

    with his reasons for rejecting Mr . F / s hypothesis , with which I pre - sume he must have been well acquainted , and with answers to objections to which he might

    possibly foresee his own to be exposed , tny trouble in writing , and that 6 f your readers in reading , would probably . Ijave been saved ; and , perhaps , Mr . F / s hypothesis would iK ) t have continued to

    enjoy so decide ^ a p reference as it seems-still to do in the judgment of some very learned and judicious critics . Without , farther preface , I will , by your leave , proceed to state some pi the grounds

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    of my t > wn dissatisfaction with that hypothesis . And , I . Because the inventor himself seems to have been at a loss what time and place to fix on for the commencement of the vision .

    In p . 55 . note f . having quoted the words , Jesus returned from Jordan ^ and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness , Luke iv . 1 . he remarks on them , This Ian * guage necessarily implies , that Jesus was not upon the banks of

    Jordan , but was returning to Ga » lilee , before he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness / ' No * thing is said there about Galilee , to which place we are expressly told ( verses 13 , 14 . ) Jesus did not return till the devil had ended all

    the temptation , and had departed from him for a season . Then , indeed , he returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee , but hot before . If it be said , that , though Jesus might not have reached Ga *

    ] ilee , yet he might have set out for it ) before he was led by \ h % Spirit into the wilderness , and it be granted , that when he quitted the banks of Jordan , which ac *

    cording to the accounts of the evangelists he evidently did , he went towards Galilee , this ernes * tion naturally occurs to be asKed , To what does the language of the evangelists ascribe his remQval from the side of Jordan ?—The

    narrative , as far as 1 can see , fu r * Bishes but one answer , which is * , that his removal was owing to aa impulse-of the Spirit . And as , Mr . F . acknowledges in the above

    passage , that Jesus did actually in person return from Jordan , and as that return , if it took place at the time supposed by Mr . F . i * attributed to nothing but an ope *

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    18 Objections io Mr . Twrmefa Hypothesis *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/18/