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further remaiks , thai the English Unitarians have published an Improved Version of the New Testament in the reign of George the Third . Hence he concludes , that . upon the principles of the Reviewer
of the Controversy , the Editors of the Improved Version must be ihe very same persons who applied to AttU'th Ben Ameth , in the reign of Charles : and , consequently , that these venerable personages were no less than one hundred and
thirty-eight- years of age , when they accomplished their work of correcting , as be expresses it the orattles of God . Upon this ingenious parody the reverend prebendary expends
nnuch of his labour and bis wit , and triumphs , not a little , in the happy conceit . It is much to be regretted , that its prolixity renders it inconvenient for ^ transcribing .
It may be found at page 588 of his new publication . And so well is the reverend gentleman satisfied with it , that he expects to receive the thanks of the reviewer for thus
eking out his argument . Iri fact , there is only one circumstance wanting to render the parallel and the triumph complete ; and that is , that same Unitarian bishop should be found , like the prelate of
Salamfs , to affirm , that the Unitarians who petitioned the Mahometan ambassador , in the reign of Charles the Second , were the very self-same individuals who taught religion , and worked miracles , and published Improved
Versions , in the reign of George the Third . Till this event occurs , and till another saint , like St . Epfyhariius , rises to illuminate the Unitarian church , let the worthy prebendary know , that fats comparison halts in its main sup-
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port * thfct hte sarcasms nr ^ mis * placed ; and that it * will 'be ' pra * dernt for him to reserve his wit ^ I had almost said his buffoonery , to a more favourable opportunity , lest it should , unluckily , recoil
upon himself . Far different , but equally unsuccessful | was the learned prelate ' s mode of extricating himself from the fatal error of fc > relating that upon the authority of Mosheim , which Moshehn related
upon none . " The instant he Consulted the passage in Epiphanius , the bishop must have seen that it was nothing to his purpose ; but what could he d * o ? He had , most
intrepidly , asserted the return of the orthodox Hebrew emigrants from Pella , renouncing the rites of the law : and when charged with inventing the story , he appealed to Mosbeina , and ^ Mbsheitn refers to Epiphatiius . But the account of Epiphanius is too
febulous in itself , and too irrelevant to the subject to be reiied upon for a moment . How then choes
this accomplished master of Aristotelian and Baconian logic grapple with this difficulty * .- ¦ * In the first place the bishop states it , point-blank , as Epiphanvus ' s assertion , ( Tracts , p . 416 . )
that " the Hebrew Christians , after Adrian ' s settlement of the iElian colony , returned fromPellai whither they had retired from the distresses of the war , to jElia . ' * But to what war Epiphanius here alludes , the bishop leaves his readers to guess .
Secondly , The learned prelate , from prudential irtotives no dotrbt * sets down the whote t > f Epiphaniu&Y testimony in the origina * Greek , - that IBs" re&dextf tnigh * possess it , pureandunadalterat < w ^
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58 ft Mr . BelsAam * 8 Reply to fite Ret .-ff 'i- 'Mbriiejf *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/26/
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