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nately in the evening , and a Fellowship Fund has been established , consisting of near * seventy subscribers . Thus has good arisen out oif evil ; we are now united and zealous , we cannot but hope that Mr . Steward and his supporters will yet listen to the voice of honour and reason , but , we ti ' ust ,
that if we are disappointed in that expectation , the Court of Chancery will ultimately decide according to What we are fully persuaded is the law , as well as the justice of our case . One of the Trustees of the Old Dissenting Meeting House , Wolverhampton .
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proof of the resurrection of all wiankind . This inference appears to me as certain ; as if it bad b ^ en expressly a £ - firmed by the pen of an Evangelist . And I rejoice to say that it Jiastitiek penned by an Evangelist in the
following terms : " Now they which were scattered abroad , upon the persecution that arose about Stephen , travelled as far as Phenice , and Cyprus , and Antioch , preaching the word to none but
untotbe Jews only . A nd some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene , which , when they were come to Antioch , spake unto the Grecians , preaching the Lord Jesus . And the hand of the Lord was with them ; and a great numbei- believed and turned unto the
Lord . " Acts xi . 1 Q . A comparison of Josephus ' s brief narrative with the words of Luke , suggests a few remarks . First , Josephus states that the preachers of the Jewish religion , treated their converts with the greatest kind ness and brotherly love , making them indeed a part of themselves . This treatment of the
pagan converts was very characteristic of the first Christian teachers among the Jews . Paul inculcates , that a Jew and a Greek were , become one in Christ . Gal . iii . 27- The language of
Philo , if possible , is still more emphatic ; who , on the authority of Moses * recommends the Jews to regard the converts from heathenism not only as friends , but as beings possessing the same body and soul with themselves .
" Moses , " says he , ** orders the Jews to embrace the converts from among the Gentiles not only as friends and relatives , but to regard them as themselves , making if possible , both the
body and the soul as one with their own . " Secondly . The Evangelist and Josephus agree in the main fact , stating it nearly in the same words ; according to the former , a great number believed and turned unto the Lord : whilst the
latter asserts , that the Jews at Antioch were continually bringing over a great multitude of Greeks to , their worship . Thirdly . Luke asserts-that the preachers were men of Cyprus and Cyrene ; and Josephus , observes , that amongst the
number of those etigaged in the design were certain foreign Jeuts * Fourthly . While Antiochus violently opposed tbje teachers of the gospel , his father from whom he derived his r&ftk
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Mr * Jones on Philo andrJoseplius being Christiaiis . — 'No . tL lOl
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Mr * Jones in proof of Philo and Josephus being Christian Writers . No . If .
Sir , Feb . 8 , 1818 . , IN the seventh book of the Jewish war , Chap . iii . 3 , Josephus has this brief , but important passage : " The Jews at Antioch were continually bringing over a great multitude of Greeks to their worship , and making them a part of themselves . "
" Then a certain man , named Antiochus , a ruler of the Jews , greatly esteemed for the virtues of his father , having assembled the people of Antioch in the theatre , accused his father ar > d the other Jews of an intention to burn
the city in one night $ and he delivered up to them certain foreign Jews as confederates in this design /' Jn his work against Apion , Josephus asserts , that the Jewish religion had at that time universally prevailed among the Gentiles . His language moreover
implies that the cause of this extraordinary prevalence was * ' a mighty proof which God had given , that after a revolution of ages be will confer upon good men a better life . " In this passage the author states the success " which the preachers of Judaism met with at Antioch ; and we may safely conclude that the cause of this success
was no other than that which rendered it successful in ^ 11 other places , namely , the mighty proof given by God himself of a new and better life . Here then we again see the great historian
of the Jews , become the historian of the gospel ; it being established at Antpoch , as well as in othier cities ' % the ( yell ; atte ^ ted fec £ that Jesus Oiristwas rafcect ^ from the dead , ai a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/21/
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