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my power to , give him , that so far from giving encouragement to infidelity , that work , on unprejudiced minds and attentive readers , has , in several instances , been the means of restoring
declining and wavering faith to a firm confidence in that holy and comfortable religion * and to some persons who , —having rejected the doctrine ^ , &c . of revelation , offered them , as being unworthy of divine authority , whilst attended with such difficulties to a common
understanding ; and which , for . so many hundred years , the constant disputatious endeavours of the most learned of its teachers , have been unable to remove , —had commenced mere deists , from a
supposition , that in that character they showed more reverence , and did greater honour to their Maker , than the generality of professing Christians . To such as those , Mr . E . had the great satisfaction and comfort of
knowing , that the volume , by many so much dreaded , had given thorough conviction of the truth of that pure religion as it was simply preached and taught by its divinely - commissioned messenger , and his true apostles . Several most welcome letters on this head
were received by Mr . E . from different quarters , especially during his last illness ; containing grateful acknowledgments for the comfortable benefits derived from
his labours ; and to some of his near relatives , a communication of a similar kind has more than once been sent . In a very recently received letter for that purpose , the writer expresses himself fully " convinced of the truth of Mr . E . ' s proofs , and the force of his strong arguments ; " and concludes
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thus , " I can now read the Scriptares with pleasure , which before used to be troublesome and perplexing / ' If the reviewer has patience to read this account of real facts , I trust he will see the Dissonance in a more favourable light , and be able to change , in
some degree , the ideal character he has conceived and reported of Mr . E . who really merited one quite the reverse of that given by the reviewer ; which , lam pretty sure , would be readily affirmed by every one personally
acquainted with him , or by any unprejudiced reader of his writings ; many of the former , being eminent scholars themselves , must
be allowed competent judges ; and by such he was always respected and esteemed , as endowed with every talent and requisite ability for an author , in patient investigation of truth , and . with
every other due qualification denied him by the reviewer , in a large list of particulars . Mr . E . too , amongst other useful gifts , had that of being a good * ' discerner of the signs of the times /' and therefore prepared his
surviving relatives for many and fre - quent severe attacks on his memory and writings , which could not , at present , be expected to meet with that general approbation and usefulness hoped for , at
a futurfe period . They , therefore , will not be surprised , if the writer of this should be disappointed of success in its design . But it is surely rather extraordinary , that 7
during Mr . E , s life , no fair opponent appeared to accept his invitation , for refuting any of the arguments on which a publication was grounded , which , since his death , has been so violently , and
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Information concerning Mr . Evanson ' s New Testffhient . \ % [
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/23/
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