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treatment that all public defenders of M . GitfSgoire and of Bfoeral opinions generally , are to expect from the tender mercies-of the ruling powers . M . I > a Roche , whose pamphte& * w < e again recommend to aH who can procure it , has been condemned to an imprisonment of five years , and a fine of six
thousand francs , for . this honest expression of his political sentiments . The printer ( a widow , who was ill at the time the book was published ) is fined one thousand francs , and is to be imprisoned three months . M . La Roche
has withdrawn himself from the injustice of his persecutors ; but these men have at length found a more sure mode of distressing M . Gregoire , by sacrificing his advocates to their vengeance , than they could ever hope for from their personal attacks on his reputation .
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Art . II . — The Apocryphal New Testament , being' all the Gospels , Epistles , and other Pieces , now ewtant , attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ , his Apostles and their Companions , and not included in the New Testament by its Compilers . Translated from the Original Tongues , and now first collected into One Volume . Printed
for William Hone , Ludgate Hill . 1820 . 12 mo . f ^ HE design of this publication is . JL sufficiently obvious . Adapted for the eye of superficial readers , it is intended to convey the impression , that the pieces here brought together were originally received as of equal credit with the books contained in the New
Testament ; and were excluded from that volume , on no other grounds than the caprice of certain ecclesiastics in the fourth or fifth century . The title * page itself is calculated to produce this impression , which is further supported impression , which is further supported
by the preface . For the writer , having first adopted the unfounded conjecture of some persons whom he does not mention , that the volume of the New Testament was compiled by the first Council of Nice , quotes a ridiculous account of the proceedings of that Council , from which the conclusion is m A fourth edition is about to be printed here .
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very natural , that tbe bishops there assembled were but ill qualified to diseri * minato between genuine and spurious Scriptures . And though he refers to a list ( taken from Jones on the Canon , but without acknowledgment ) of th $ Christian authors of tfeje . first four centuries , whose writings contain
catalogues of the books of the New Testament , he is entirely silent as to the fact that none of them include any of the pieces in this collection - y nevertheless , he does not hesitate to says , ( Pref . p . vi ., > that these pieces €€ wer $ considered sacred by Christians during the first four centuries after the birth
of Christ . " And as he takes no notice of this * glaring defect of external evidence ia their favour , so he 3 ays net a word tp shew how devoid they are pf internal proofs of authenticity , though that is so obvious upon the slightest perusal of them , and forms so * broad a line of distinction from the received books of
the New ; Testament . We therefore think we do him no wro » g in conceive ing , that he intended this distinction to be overlooked , and that having represented the puerile and ridiculous pieces here published as equally authentic , or
nearly so , with those of the New Testament , he has left it to the sagacity of every reader to draw the conclusion for himself , that neither the Qne collection nor the other is worthy of credit . But if the compiler of this volume had made a better use of the work
( Jones on the Canon ) from which he has , without acknowledgment , taken the greater part of his translations , and nearly the whole of his notes , he would have found that there exist the most satisfactory proofs of tbe low esteem in which these pieces were held from the earliest period of their publication . Nor has he adduced the name of a
single author of the first three centuries that has quoted any of them . And those of the ^ Jmirth century , to whom he refers the reader for tie early authority of these books , have only spo * ken of them to condemn them ; or , at any rate , have expressly excluded them
from the sacred volume , as is evjcjen from the list at the end of the volume But how little reliance is t < & . be placed upon the statements of this cvmpiler , may be seen by an exajflnij $ atic ) of the introductory remarks to tUc first piece in the collation , , " n IFhf *
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Review . — The Apocryphal New Testament- 39
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/39/
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