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merous are ^ the in £ t&nces a doubtless e ^ ery wli ^ re ; of ; permits who , from v&tfifcias' itftftiirfeS , ' wGtfld read on oar side 6 f' tee 1 qul&fioii , had they the
nveans > but thfe expense and difficulty of * procilWng Unitarian publications , often is equivalent to a . total proliibition . Of the great value of such lir braties for the use of thbse who could
not otherwise meet with our theokM gical works , the experience of the One attached to the room is ample proof : Methodists , Catholics , fee , frequently apply for publications which are never refused even to entire strangers , and so little has this confidence been
abused , that not more than two or three books have been- lost , although seldom less than from 50 to 80 are in circulation . The eagerness with which applications are made sufficiently proves a very considerable desire to read , and in a short time most of , our modern
Unitarian books and tracts will be familiar to a numerous body of persons , who , till lately , could scarcely have heard of their existence . On the whole , enough has been done to shew not only the practicability , but the very great advantages of
this scheme for disseminating pure Christianity , though it remains to pursue , with unabated perseverance , the path which has so far led to happy results . Those who expect much in
a short period , would do wdl- to remember the difficulty of the task before them , which is no other than preparing , by a succession of efforts , the minds of men to discard that which for ages has been held sacred , and to receive
what they are accustomed to hear spoken of with scorn and contempt . Neither ought we to be discouraged if the fruit 3 of our labours do not become immediately apparent . Truth , though
slow in its developement , is yet certain in her progress , and we should constantly bear hi mind , that those are neither the most seribus Christians ^ nor the most valuable members of
society , whose opinions give way without a jp-eat deal of study and reflection . The importance of th $ subject will ; I trust , plead in thy behalf for thus occupying your plages , not that I , am insensible of the opinion of certain persons &s ta thp superior ptiicfival consequences to be derived from sufcli exertions to lead others tovembroce , our views rlrf (] &rfsti ^ jity . ! Btrt Mo
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these ; suspect that * the cause of pigty is noft benefited by that State ei * mind engendered by a taste for theological pursuits and the investigation of Scripture ?¦¦• ¦¦ Can they point- 4 fr tfie « mb * al tendency ef that temporizing policy ; which would lead us to-believe thei * e is
little varae in principle * & I agree with Dr . Priestley * that * bur toeffl to make proselytes ought , certainly ^ to be ift proportion to our ideas of the import tance of the truth for which we are advocates /* With ^ Mmj I should profess €€ no other view than to make
converts , without which there can jpe no rational object in exertion at all /' and if nothing is to be gained to the cause of virtue and holiness when f * in understanding we become men ? 9 then have the wisest of our' race been led
away by the specious , deceptions of theory , and the far-famed maxims of antiquity and the boasted perfectibility of man been none other than C € an idle tale . " A BEREAN .
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^ SlR , PTpHERE is one proof of the spuri-JL ousness of Matthew i . ii . which
has not , I think , been sufficiently noticed . Chap . iii . 1 , in our common copies is , " And in those daps came John the Baptist , " &c . It is evident that this cannot be correct : For those
days would mean the time spoken of in the conclusion of tlie last chapter , that is , the time when John was quite an infant , at least 28 years before the beginning of his mission . It is therefore clear , that there has been some
tampering with this passage , and that the person who added the first two chapters , in his attempt to join them to the third , with which , probabl y * the book originally began , has madef uttet nonsense of the first ver 3 © of the third
chapter . Epiphanius says , that the Gospel of the Ebionites , that is , the Hebrew copy of Matthew , which never had the first two chapters , began , '* It came to pass in the days of Herdjd , king of Judea , that John the Baptist
came , " &c . It seems to me most probable , that the words of Judea " have been inserted by a mistake rperhaps of Epiphanius , and tMk tke € *«* # - pel of MattVew originally feegan , ^ It came to pass in the days of itetbd thfe king , , that John the JBaptist carn ^ , " &c- Herod Ajitipas , though properly
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Sguriousness of ^ Matt , i , ii . WB
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/15/
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