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like unto them ( John viii . 55 ) ; he should not fulfil that mission with which he was entrusted . The " prism" and the " pyramid " I send greeting to the church that is in Laodicea . RUSSELL SCOTT . _ ^ m _
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engaged in making a new edition of it , though he had not succeeded in making out the writer . H . T .
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Sir , WORK , intituled Not Paul but A Jesus , is ( I am assured ) on the point of offering itself to the public eye . The title is such as can scarce fail to excite no small interest , not to
say emotion , in a Christian breast . The point which , if I understand aright , it is principally occupied in establishing , is—that the inward conversion of St . Paul never obtained credence either
on the part of any of the disciples of the apostles , or on the part of the apostles themselves , or any of them . Supposing this proposition established , the consequences , in regard to doctrine , are too obvious to need
mentioning , as well as too important to be thought of without anxiety ; for curiosity would be too light a word . This same opinion , as may be seen in Mosheim , Lardner and others , was entertained by the Ebionites , a sect of primitive Christians so called , the time of whose existence was as early as the
commencement of the second century ( See Mosheim , Eccles . Hist . Cent . I . Pt . 2 , Ch . 5 , § 170 To them , if Mosheim and his translator are correct , St . Paul was an object of undissembled abhorrence , in which seems necessarily implied , that , in their eyes , the allegation of his intercourse with Jesus was
no other than an imposture . Of this opinion , the existence is all that is now known . As to the grounds on which it was built—the considerations from whence it was deduced—of these we know nothing . Whatsoever they
may be , these , as far as the nature of the case has favoured his researches , the industry and discernment of the author will , of course , have been occupied in bringing to view . In the several histories we have of the affairs of the
Christian Church , the place of this denomination of Christians has , of course , been in the list of heretic * . But , whatever may have been the
erroneousness of their doctrines , the stroke of the pen by which this denomination has been applied to them , will scarcely be thought to have afforded any very conclusive proof of it . G—l S—h .
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•—^— Liverpool , Sir , February 9 , 1821 . OBSERVING in the newspapers an advertisement of a reprint by Mr . Hone of a scarce publication , entitled " The Spirit of Despotism , " I turned to Vol . XII . p . 94 , of the Monthly Repository , where one of your Correspondents wishes to learn who was the author of this excellent
little production . I am sorry I am only able to furnish a surmise on this head , but there appears to be a considerable probability that the author C who , " as your Correspondent says , " from his correct and polished language , was no eve ?\?/ -day writer" ) is
not yet added to the " great majority " as he imagines . The original book was printed , but perhaps not published , in London , about 1 / 94 or 1795 * and in the succeeding year was reprinted in Philadelphia , without note or comment . This was about the time ,
it is conjectured , when Mr . Law ( son of the late Bishop of Carlisle and brother to the present Bishop of Chester ) emigrated to the United States , and by him the book was by many supposed to have been written . This
supposition is strengthened by the Unitarian sentiment displayed in the work , which doctrine Mr . Law has , I am told , always maintained . It is not a little singular , that whilst one brother
was vindicating in the House of Lords the persecution of Mr . John Wright , of Liverpool , for the very opinions held by his father , the venerable Bishop of Carlisle , another brother should shortly after assist Mr . Wright , on his removal to America , to establish an Unitarian
Society . The only copy of the " Spirit of Despotism" I have seen , was one brought several months since by a friend from Philadelphia , who lately took it to Mr . Hone with a view of
endeavouring to trace the author , and procure its republication . Mr . Hone had just before , with some difficulty , procured a copy of the book , and was then
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108 Author 0 / " The Spirit of Despotism . "— « Not Paul but Jesus . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/44/
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