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POETRY.
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A | W \ j £ . A -t- on Adam ; proving ? both from Scripture apd Reasonf that the Devil had no hand in that Event . With an A ttempt to explain the Genealogy of Jesus Christ . By a Lover of Truth . 8 vo . Pp . 24 . 1817 .
Art . XI A Reply to Mr . Burgess ' s Journey to Eden , Src . ivith an Explanation of the Two Geneological Tables of Jesus Christ * in a short Conversation between mi Indian and a Briton . By the Author of a Treatise on the Fall of Adam . 8 vo . Pp . 32 . 1818 . Both Pamphlets sold by Sherwood and Co .
THE author of these tracts is , we understand , a tradesman , residing under the wing of the archiepiscopal palace at Lambeth . He has , however , no fear of heresy before his eyes ,
but -writes as if no creeds had ever been drawn up , and he were as much at liberty to frame a system for himself as any one of the Fathers of the church .
On the " Fall of Adam , " this writer maintains the opinion , which , though not new to the divinity student , is apparently original with respect to him , that the relation of Moses is literal
history , that the serpent was the only tempter , and that ( in his own homely phrase ) 4 t the Devil had no hand in that event . " He contends , moreover , that Adam was created mortal , and that his sin , whatever it was , effected no alteration in his final destiny . With-
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Clapton , Si r , October 22 , 1818 . BR . PRIESTLEY , in his « History of the Christian Church , *' ( IV . 155 , ) has given , as a * ' favourable specimen of the literature , taste and piety" of the twelfth century , 4 * a
poem in Latin rhyme , written by Hildebert , Bishop of Mans , ( who died in 1132 , ) first published by Archbishop Usher , and copied into the Annual Register for 1765 . "
1 find , on referring to that volume , ( p . 9 > Q 59 ) that the poem was published by Usher , at the end of a Latin Treatise , in 1647- It appears from a note by the Archbishop , that he had found
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out explaining a middle scheme , h censures both the Free-Wilier and th e Predestinarian , as calling in question either the wisdom or the goodness of the Almighty . ^ »_ • _ _ . „ J > Ji ^ ^_ _ i _ ^» . _^^ ^ i ft
His explanation of the genealogies of Jesus Christ in Matthew and Luke , which have so long puzzJed divines , is , that both are genealogies of Joseph , that of Matthew through his father , and that of Luke , through his mother by her father Heli . This hypothesis assumes of course that Joseph was the
real father of Jesus * which the author maintains by the usual arguments . He attributes the story of the miraculous conception to other hands than the evangelists ' , and considers the prophecy of Isaiah with regard to a virgin ' s bearing a son fulfilled in the prophet ' s own
family-The second pamphlet is a defence or rather a repetition of the first , in answer to a publication of a Mr- Burgess , probably a neighbour , who is represented as a schoolmaster , and who , whether layman or divine , appears to possess a due portion of the odium theologicum . There are some speculations of the writer ' s which we scarcely understand , and a few reflections which we do not approve ; but we have met with nothing in his pamphlets that justifies us in denying to him the title which he has chosen of * ' A Lover of Truth . "
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the original among the Cotton MSS . * and collated it with a MS , in the Royal Library . Having had occasion to give a translation of this poem , as an
Appendix to the Ninth Volume of Priestley ' s Works , now in the press , I have sent it for previous insertion in the Repository ; prefixing the original . The impossibility of imitating the jingle of monkish verse in the translation of
a serious poem , will occur to every reader . I could only attempt to convey the sense of each stanza , so fur as the idiom of language , and the re * straints of rhyme , would permit , J / T . RUTT .
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( ' Treatise the Fall of 5 ^ 6 Poetry *— -ffildeberts Oratio ad Dominum . m . ¦^ y * m » _ _ _» t _ "vy— it _ r *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/46/
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