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    Luke , friends ajid * foes bear testimony . And , op a review of the whole of the evidence , external and internal , we must declare it to be our conviction , ( 1 ) that the Greek Gospel of Matthew always contained these chapters ; ( 2 ) that proof is wanting of there having

    been formerly any gospel , the source , as it were , of this , from which they wer $ absent ; and , ( 3 ) that , in all probability , Matthew was the author of the chapters ; with the exception however of the genealogy , which he borrowed from some quarter not distinctly known to us , and prefixed to his own composition .

    Matt , xxiii . 14 : " Woe uilto you , Scribes and Pharisees , hypocr ites ! . For ye devour widows' houses , and for a pretence make long prayer : therefore ye shall receive the greater condemnation . " " Griesbaiih , " says Mr . Wallace , * " transposes the 13 th and

    14 th verses , on good evidence . The editors of the I . V ., on evidence equally strong , reject the 14 th verse , and consider it as an interpolation from Mark xii . 40 > and Iiuke xx . 47 * ' The biblical student may not be displeased with a reference to Griesbach ' s latest

    thoughts £ on this part of the text of the N . T . That learned man delivers his opinion as follows : " delendum euin ease pronuntiarem , nisi recurrentia verba wctt Se . u /> uv , ypccfA . fAa . Ttti ; kou < l >< xpuratAi i *( HeptTait 9 hri omission ! ansam

    prabuerit tarn facilem , ut mirum prorecto esset , si librarii omittendo non peccassent ; uti etiam eandem ob causam , Bengelio teste , codex 86 et iatini nonnulli libri versum 13 neglexerant , a eorrectoribus jam in marginibus suppletum . —In medio ergo res retinquenoa , et lectori , qui tamen de gravibus sus ~ picionis aavereus versum 14 causis admoneri debet , judicium permittendum ease videtur . "

    Acts iii . 1 : c < Now Peter and John went up together into the temple , at the hour of prayer , being the ninth hour . " These apostles of Christ , we perceive , set apart certain times for the more immediate expression of the feelings of devotion . The practice is founded on the frame and laws of the mind * no less than on the commands of Divine Revelation , and on die

    ex-- > .. , ¦ ¦ * Plain Statement , &c . > p . 74 . t Comm . Critic . & £ Pattto & 11—15 .

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    amples of eminently wise atid goo 4 men in every age and country . If there be those who would persnatde us that piety and devotion cannot be regulated by die figures of a dial , or that religious affections cannot be excited m

    large bodies of men , and , by analogy of reasoning , in individuals ^ by the tolling of a bell , we may fairly infer from the use of such arguments , the want of a just knowledge of human nature in those who employ them * Nothing can well be more obvious and

    satisfactory than the answer which they admit : habits of devotion must be formed in the same manner in which other mental habits are acquired . So long , therefore , as religious service * are considered as the means * instead of being made the end , the advantage , aBfd even the necessity , of them , must be

    evident . If it be Qnce granted that they are proper , we plainly see that , whether they are social or retired , there must be fixed times for the perform ance of them : nor i& there any thing more irrational and visionary in piety

    and devotion being regulated by the figures of a dial , or in the religious affections being excited by the tolling of a bell , than in the lively recurrence of other feelinirs at the seasons , and as

    the effect of the circumstances in which they are accustomed to receive a peculiar gratification . If habits depend on regular and duly-repeated acts , no maa whose experience gives Mm this conviction can be at a lo& m replying to the objector . He alone will despise stated hours of prayer who either

    questions the duty and efficacy of the practice , or so relics on supernatural assistance as to fancy himself exalted above the need of ordinances : thus nearly related , in this point , to each other , are the apparently opposite

    characters of the enthusiast , and the sceptic ! Rom . xiiL 1—8 : €€ J > t every soul be subject unto the higher powers /* &c . Paul glances , In this , passage , with united delicacy axul force , # t toe obligations of idlers , qnd describes what he should be , let frb title be what it may , in whom tfce ai ^ renie . ftuu > - tioni of the state are lodged : he is the minister of God to thee for mod •"

    on which eenteoce I traaoeiifve ibet comment of owe of the bcsst . Scriptural critics < rf any age or nation : — 44 Christianity' , * mys Ot » John

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    Notes on a feu ? Passages in the New Testdmen& \ T&t

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1820, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2495/page/19/