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and confirm the resolution of the Council , and to appoint the continuance of the regiment till further order . To this the king consented ; and as the rumours of fresh conspiracies were industriously kept up , those troops were continued and augmented , and a way
was prepared for the gradual establishment of a standing army , under the name of guards . This should be a memento to future ages , how they credit the reports of plots and conspiracies thrown out by a minister , unless the evidence of their existence
be brought forward . The cry of conspiracies has been frequently nothing more than the chimera of fear , or the invention of a wicked policy to carry the schemes of ambition and despotism . —Secret History of the Court and Reigri of Charles // . Vol . I . p . 346-7 . Editor /'—Vol . IV . p 32 O .
T . H . JANSON . P . S . Your Correspondent , Cantabrigiensis , [ p . 346 , ] has fallen into a very general error , in attributing the stanzas on Madame Lavalette ' s conjugal virtue , to Lord Byron ; they were written by a friend of mine , who is one of the
Society of Friends , and Were sent by him to the Examiner , signed with his initials B . B .: it is curious that they are placed in most of the editions of Lord Byron ' s Poems . B . B . once published an anonymous volume under the title of Metrical Effusions , with a Dedicatory Sonnet to Mr . Roscoe , which
is , 1 believe , now out of print ; and he is at this time publishing a quarto volume of Poems , of which a very limited number will be printed , price One Guinea : if Cantab , or any of your readers are desirous of seeing more of his poetry , I shall be happy to forward any names to him as subscribers .
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Reply to Objections to Christianity . 395
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Sir , March £ 6 , 1817 . YOUR Correspondent , A . B . C . [ p . 9 ^ , 3 inquires , " why should that degree of credit be extended to
the historians of Jesus , who , we know , were frequently reproved by him for their gross and inadequate apprehension of the nature of the Messiah , and the quality of his dispensation , which is withheld from all other historians '
( with respect to supposed miracles ) ? That the miracles to which the evangelical historians bear witness , difTe r from the doubtful and superstitious jtales of cures of the king ' s evil ,
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&c , in their nature , degree of publicity , and other circumstances , seems a waste of time and ink to shew : this has been done by Campbell , in his reply to Hume .
The gross apprehension of the Messiah ' s character and office , was common to the evangelists and to the more learned and enlightened Jews : this argument against their competency therefore falls to the ground .
1 hese natural misconceptions , in which the wisest scribes partook , cannot affect their evidence as to what they saw and handled , if they were honest men .
I hat they were honest men , is proved by the very objection of your Correspondent—that they were reproved by Jesus for their gross and temporal notions : for the knowledge that they were so comes from their own candid
statement . if we believe the testimonv of these honest men , we must believe that the facts which they relate were matters of notoriety . The apostles appeal openly to the senses and recollections of the
people : " Jesus of Nazareth , a man approved of God among you by miracles , wonders , and signs which God did by him in the midst of you , as ye yourselves also know . " Christianity was promulgated by
preaching . The gospel histories were successively composed amidst contemporaries , who might have contradicted their story . The records were read in Christian societies as registers of publicly received facts .
Paul was not one of those who were reproved for grossness of apprehension ; he was a learned man , invested with authority , prejudiced against the Christians - , ) , et he became a Christian and a zealous apostle .
Luke , his secretary , was not one of the reproved historians ^ yet Luke records in the Acts miracles equally striking with those which Matthew recorded , or which Peter dictated to Mark .
In attestation of the facts thus preached and thus recorded , the evangelists and apostles , and Jewish and Gentile converts , braved shame , persecution and death . Is this conamon testimony ? An indirect evidence to the
miraculous agency of Jesus is afforded hy the early corruption of his religion , which ascribes to him a superhuman
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/19/
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