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2 . c < Upon this event a Chris , tian church arose at yfilia . " 3 . ThQ church at iElia often , but improperly , called the church of Jerusalem , for Jerusalem was no more , in its external form , in
its doctrines and its discipline a Greek cburcH : and it was governeil by bishops of the tincircumcision . Again I take for g ranted "—
4 . " That the observation of the Mosaic law . to the primitive church at Jerusalem , was a matter of mere habit and national prejudice , not of conscience . —St . Paul , in all his Epistles maintains the total insignificance of the Mosaic law ,
either for Jew or Gentile , after Christ fead made the great atonement : arid the notion that Paul could be mistaken in a point which is the principal subject of a great
jtairt of his writings , is an impiety which I cannot impute to our holy brethren , the saints of the primitive church of Jerusalem * Ag&lli . | TAKE FOR GRANTED ^
5 . " . That with good Christians , stlch as I believe the Christians of the primitive church of Jerusalem to h ^ ve been , motives of worldly interest , which would not overcome conscience , would ,
nevertheless overcome mere habit . ' ' 6 . " That the desire of partaking in the privileges of the ^ -lian coidny , from which Jews were Excluded , would accordingly be a iftoiivey that would prevail with the Hebrew Chrfctjans of
Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine , to djVest themselves of the form of Judaism , by laying aside their antfeftt ctastoihsl" '
And now to bring all these inge . riious asshipptions to bear upon the poirtt iii question , and jto estab-$ Sft the existence arid origin of
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his favourite church , the learned prelate , taxing bolder as he ad * vances , adds , with a tone of con ' fidence , p . 4 l 9 r 4 t 1 affirm 7 . " That a body of orthodox Christians , of the Hebrew . ^ , were actually existing in tb ^ world muc k later than in the time of Adrian " To establish this fact the bishop cites the before-mentioned passage from Jerome . A very doubtfuL
argument certainly , as Df . Priestley has distinctly shewn . But that we may not appear to cavil , let this be added likewise to the string
of concessions Let it be further taken for granted , that the simple expression in the writings of Jerome , concerning Hebrews believing in Christ , alone and unsupported , proves the existence ( fan orthodox Hebrew church , in the
fourth or fifth century ; the question still recurs ^ how does the existence of a body of orthodox Hebrew Christians , nobody can tell where / in the age of Jerome ,
prove that the Hebrew Christian * in the second century , in the reign of Adrian ^ discarded at oncb all their early prejudices , and habits of attachment to the Mosaic ritual ,
and placed themselves under a Gentile bishop , in order to secure the privileges of the iElian colony ? But for this difficulty , great as it isand insurmountable a ^ it would
. be in inferior hands , the con ^ 'inmate dialectics of the right reverend prelate , have provided a
solution no less satisfactory thin uncommon . " If , " says the bishop , ( Tracts , p . 421 , ) ' * the orthodox Christians of the Hebrews , actually existing somewhere in tht world , from the reign of Adiian to the days of Jerome , were ? not mem bers of the church of JEUa , dwell * ing at M \\* j and in tbe adjacen *
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Tftr . Bjefchtoh ' s Rep fa to the Rev . H 0 Horslcy * 45 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/27/
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