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impostors , wicked in every respect * But that his aim might not be overlooked , he sets but with saying , that Jesus was a man : and , as it were , to apologize for many sincere believers in him among the Gentiles , who , from
his wonderful works , might think him above human , he adds , t' If , indeed , he might be called a man . 11 After relating the extraordinary events which concerned Jesus , he adverts to the Samaritan impostor , whom , as the antagonist of Jesus , the Roman Senate had honoured with a statue . ' * Nor
did the Samaritans escape disturbance . For they were stirred up by a man , who made no scruple of telling falsehoods , and who , influenced by the desire of popularity , imposed on the multitude by various artifices . " Ant . Jud . L . xviii . C . iii . Sect . iv . It is
singular , that Josephus should place hi& account of Jesus at the head of transactions which happened at Rome ; and still more so does it appear , that he should relate , in the same connexion , events that took place in Samaria . His reason is now obvious ; and his testimony for Jesus is equally
genuine with that which he bears against Simon . They point each to the other , as the productions of the same hand ; and it must appear marvellous , that a paragraph respecting Christ , which has been deemed spurious for want of connexion , should be found to be the corner-stone of the
whole context . In his testimony to Jesus , Josephus has excluded the notion of his supernatural birth , as not belonging to his history : and that he might point out the base origin of it , he subjoins the wonderful transaction that gave it birth . But this shall be the subject of a subsequent papfer . JOHN JONES .
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cause of freedom . But " Liberia qiue sera tamen respexit inertem . " J . \ V . F . In a trial sit the late Leicester assize * *
an attempt was made to invalidate the testimony of a respectable witness , by some impertinent and iusultiug questions put to him by one of the counsel relative to his religious faith , — -which Mr . Baron Garrow said he was not
obliged to answer ; and he added , U I should not , however , have prevented him from giving an answer if he had chosen , because the answer might have vindicated him from the imputation which the question conveyed .
But , whatever might have been hi * answer , whether he declared himself to be a believer in every part of the Holy Scriptures or not , 1 should , h& my address to the jury , have said , that his belief or disbelief in these matters
should not impeach his testimony * He might be equally disposed to tell the truth whatever were his religious opinions . "—Such language is calcu * lated to increase the number of true Christians .
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Lmv of Evidence . — -Mr . Cuban ' s Eloquence . 54 $
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Ratcliffi Highwayt Sir , Aug . 3 , 1818 . FEEL great pleasure in forward-I ing , for insertion , the following anecdote of Sir William Garrow , copied from the Monthly Magazine of
lattt May . It forms a striking contrast with the instance of malignant bigotry recorded in the Repository of July , p « 443 ^; and i » the more interesting when irve consider that Sftr William , when Attorney * GeneraI , was neyer remarkable for hi * attachment to the
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Sir , Liverpool , Nov . 15 , 1 $ 17 * THE lamented death of the Right Hon . John Phil pot Curran , recorded in your Obituary , [ XII . 625 # 626 i ] reminded me of the following extracts which I made some time ago , from a collection of his Speeches , the 4 th edit . 8 vo . 1815 . The additional
interest they derive from the reflection that now they are amongst the monuments of departed genius , joined to that which their intrinsic excellence claims , will perhaps render them worthy a place in the pages of the Repository—a work that , I trust , will ever
be ready to offer its tribute of willing admiration to talents , which like those of Curran ' s were always employed in the service of liberty . The speeches from which these extracts are made , were printed from short-hand note * taken during their delivery , and never received the finishing touches of thehr
author ' s hand ; but with all their imperfections they furnish highly favourable specimens of his commanding * eloquence . It will soon be discovered that tlii « eloquence is completely [ risk —which , whilst it disrftii m * the formality of the schools , and by ttio g # udines ? of its ornaments continually offends against the refinement of * h
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 543, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/7/
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