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BIBPECAI, CRITICISM, INQUIRIES AND DISQtJISrTIOKS ON ^CCLESiJlSTICALjHISTO&V.
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Bibpecai, Criticism, Inquiries And Disqtjisrtioks On ^Cclesijlsticaljhisto&V.
BIBPECAI , CRITICISM , INQUIRIES AND DISQtJISrTIOKS ON ^ CCLESiJlSTICALjHISTO&V .
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E&rty Christians called Jews . , No opinion appears more generally entertained ^ than that Christianity is a religion d is tin ct * from , and independent of Judaism * Nevertheless ., ao opinion seems to me more isistaken , or productive of
worse consequences . As soon as our Lord began topTeach 5 the liberality of his sentimeuts expo * . zed him to the charge of innovation j and he repels tJiis charge by declari ng ^ in express terms ,, t hat Jie came not to destroy , but to fulfil the law and the prophets ; Sgeawag * that he came not to ' in *
tTQduce a new reli gion but to purify and to per £ eefc the old *—The fundamental principles of the gospel tire the advent " of Christy Lis death , his resurrection , the
resurrection of the dead , and k judgment to come and these are not only implied in the Jewish scriptures ; but Christ and his apostles uniformly appeal to those scriptures as containing them . He
revealed no doctrine to th@ Jews , which for ages had not been pro * claimed by Mose $ and the prophets . The only difference was , that he enforced by new sanctions .
£ nd placed in clear light what those servants of God had taught only under the veil of figurative language and ritual pbservai [ nces . Jei > us and his £ o 11 ow € ts considered
the ireligion of Mosesias consisting , like a human being , of a ftody and e $ ouL The literal interpretation and the external rites constituted the former ; their moral sense and yinboiical reference * the latter *
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The Saviour unfolded this moral sense , and fulfilled those symbolical references as the vital part of those doctrines which had been taught to the Jews . Thus he adopted the soul of Judaisjn , while he left its rites and ordinances to
perish like a decayed bodyy and to be buried oat of sight . The attempt to separate Christianity from Judaism was tnadL by the Gnostics in the iirst ^ nd second centuries : and the attempt we may be assured * was as repug
nant to the feelings o £ the Jewish believers , as it was to the authority of Christ and his apostles . Joseph us , who spent the tj ^ ree last years of his education in a Christian school : and whose works
are a register of facts , calculated and intended to prove the truth @f the gospel , has uniformly endeavoured to set aside this distinction , by calling the Christians
Jems ; and his religion the Jewish religion . Before I proceed to the facts wjiich I purpose disclosing to your readers ^ I shall cite a few instances in proof of this assertion
To the testimony which Josephus has borne to Christ as A teacher of truth , Ee subjoins this paragraph , * A Jew resided at Rome , who having been accused of transgressing the laws of Moses ,
fled from his coi ^ ntry , to avoid the punishment which threateqed hj ^ oj . la every respect he w $ & a wiqked man . During his residence at R ^ me , he professed te untold the wisdom of the Mosaic
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/32/
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