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were eye-witnesses ^ mpfesttf . ^ For h& * r # e $ iviedff # m God tftfc Fatfoer honour and gloff /^ uth en there cam e sueh it voice to hirft from the ewcelieWt glory TM&ts my behoved Son in tchom £ Wto ^ tweH plettsed ; and tfiU voices whidk came from heaven , we heard
when we tvere > with Mm in the holy Mount . Now , Sir , nothing can be more evident than that the apostle fixes our attention solely on what he and others were eye-witnesses of , long after the birth of Christ , and that there is not the most distant allusion to any relation of that event : but what is
the comment of Dr . Jones ? / consider the statement of Matthew and Luke as a cunning'ly-devised fabte , and therefore I affirm Peter so called it . Really , Sir , I fear your readers are almost ready to charge me with a waste of time in refuting such criticisms , and that they will be forcibly
reminded of the remark , " that the best way of refuting some absurdities is the fair statement of them \" The learned Doctor , I perceive , promises , or , should he write in the same strain , I should rather say threatens us with a continuation of his
speculations ; and , as we are to have <( Remarks on Lucian and other enemies of the gospel / ' I hope , although I have no great partiality for this class of writers , I may be permitted to suggest a hint in their favour . Let the Doctor be careful to do greater justice to the enemies than he has to the
friends of the gospel ; let Lucian be treated more fairly than the evangelists and Peter . Tnstead of attributing to them what they never wrote , let us have their own language , and , instead of his own speculations—the " baseless fabric of a vision "—let us have
facts , and solid reasoning on those facts . I likewise hope for the future the sfime favour may be extended to the sacred writers . BENJ . FLOWER .
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Sir , March 7 , 1821 . ^^ REAT distres s and poVferty have % JC occasioned the death of a female in the congregation of which I am a member . This sad occurrence has
giten rise to many reflections in my mind . Why is there not such communi on of interests that such an evertt cttuld ncWhfrvfe fiflj ^ fcued ? Why ean ^ » 6 t we adopt » tffe WteiA ^ f the ^ Qtiak ^ rs ,
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and -jfcE £ Ve £ ai ^ tOT ta' ^ ntot the irfnHtiafc 0 f tJi& * f *^^ iif ^ should wish to see it laid < lown in yOt , pages , ft is greatly t # « || H regretted that there is not a general bdt > d < tf union for our sodety ^ -thtt * deteg « lte 8
from congregations and districts * 4 fr not assemble yearly in the ifcetr <* ptilis to provide for thfe liniversal Welfare of our body . The Tract Society and Widows' Fund would not be in the
deplorable condition they appear to be if this were the ease , and &uit places of education would be supported better than they are * I am deddedly of opinion , that the progress of religious truth is much impeded by the watit of this bond of union , which I recommend to the consideration of yo u * readers . ^ A . E .
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210 Proposal for vhristi&nUnioti ^^ Gospel
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Edinburgh , Sir , February 22 , 1821 . TTVR . PRIESTLEY , in the excellent JLJ preliminary dissertations to his Harmony , has offered very satisfactory reasons for believing , that the account of the driving the buyers and sellers out of the Temple , John ii . 14 ^ -22 , is out of its place , and really belongs to the events of the last week of the
life of Jesus . But I think he has not extended his reasoning quite for enough . I am inclined to think , that the whole passage , from ii . 12 , to iii . 21 , is out of place , and ought all to be removed , in forming a harmony , to the end of chap . xii . In ii . 12 , we are informed , that ' * Jesus continued
at Capernaum not many days / ' If we suppose this to have been in the original immediately followed by Hi 22 , " After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Jtidea , " the connexion is clear ; but otherwise he was alread y in Judea , ^ at the time immediately preceding that , when h £ is said to come into it . Besides this ,
in ii . 23 , iii . 2 , many miracles of Jesus are referred to ; but iv . 54 , the most natural construction eertainly is , that John is there relating the second miracle which Jesus performed . On these ii
accounts I think , that the passage . 14 , —iii . 21 , inclusive , has b £ eii written on a scroll , originally at the end of eh . xii . ; but whicli has by sctfne mistak e been transferred to thiV place / and that , after it had been transfei ^«» sohifc transcriber pttrfixGd * ii ; I * 5 j ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/18/
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