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REVIEW. t€ Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Pope.
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original which it imitates , and the circulation of spurious coin takes place subsequently to the issue of some that is lawful and undebased . The best pretensions of the Edinburgh Reviewers ( ib . ) will not be found in their theological erudition and criticisms . Nor was it necessary for Mr . Q —/ S—h to quote their opinion that the fathers are not to be regarded " as guides either in faith or morals . " Still , if those early writers are perused with discrimination , they will be pronounced extremelv valuable witnesses to the
authenticity and genuineness of the Christian Scriptures . On this account we will venture to wish that they may be carefully read by the author of " Not Paul , but Jesus . ' * According to Mr . G—/ S—h , ( ib ., )
Middleton did not go far enough : " One thorn still remained to be plucked out of the side of this so much injured religion , and that was , the addition made to it by Saul of Tarsus : by that Saul who , under the name of Paul , has , —( as will be seen , ) without warrant from , and even in the teeth of , the history of Jesus , as delivered by his companions and biographers , the four evangelists , —been dignified with the title of his apostle : his
apostle , that is to say , his emissary : his emissary 9 that is to say , sent out by him . " We submit , however , that the two words apostle and emissary are not synonymous . Johnson's
definition of the English term emissary is a 3 follows : ( € one sent out on private messages ; a spy ; a secret agent /' Such being the proper import and almost invariable * use of this noun in
our own language , we deem the present application of it incorrect , and apparently invidious . Of " Mede , Sykes and others , " Mr . G —/ S—A remarks , ( p 3 , ) that their " ingenious labours were , in the case
? Paley inaccurately employs the word emissaries concerning those among the earliest preachers of the gospel who were not apostles . Evid ., &c , ( ed , 8 , ) pp . 109 , 314 .
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Review. T€ Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."—Pope.
REVIEW . t € Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pope .
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Art . I . —Summary View of a Work , intituled " Not Paul , but Jesus ;" as exhibited in Introduction , Plan of the Work , and Titles of Chapters and Sections . By Gamaliel Smith , Esq . London , printed for Effingham Wilson . 8 vo . pp . 15 . MpHE readers of The Monthly
JL Repository have already been informed that the work of which we are here favoured with a prospectus and a specimen is ' * on the point of offering itself to the public eye . " This intelligence , it now seems , we received from the author himself . * In the letter which conveyed it to us , he intimates that the abhorrence with which the Ebionites are well known to have regarded Paul is presumptive of their belief that " the allegation of his
intercourse with Jesus was no other than an imposture /* Now , in truth , they rejected both his writings and his history : but then cue cause of their hatred to him was his strenuous resistance to every attempt at imposing the rites of Moses on the Heathen converts ; f and their hostility from such a motive , to such a man , was alike honourable to
the apostle and reproachful to themselves . We proceed to examine the copious advertisement of the work that Mr . Gamaliel Smith has announced with so many " notes of preparation .
la his praise of Cowers Middleton ( p . 2 ) we concui . As a general scholar , even yet more than as a theologian , the author of the Free Enquiry , fyc . f stands high upon the roils of fame . With considerable ability and
learning , he has shewn that miraculous powers did not continue in the church after the age of the apostles . Yet he believed in their existence down to that period . His argument confirms the more direct proof of their reality , since what is counterfeit attests an
* Mon . Repos . p . 108 . t Mosheim , de rebus Christ , ante Consta nt ., p . 331 ; Ittig , d <* Hseres . &c , ( ed . 2 >) PP . 70 , 71 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/39/
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