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part the second will consist of eleven chapters , in which it will be endeavoured to shew that the apostles and their disciples at Jerusalem did not believe in his having received any supe rnatural commission from Jesus , or in his being inwardly converted . To the third part a single chapter will belong : here will be produced certain assertions by Paul , which Mr . G—/ S—// alleges to be false , namely , an account of the number of witnesses to
the resurrection of Jesus , —and a prediction of the end of the world before the ieath of persons then living . The object of part the fourth , will be to evince that no proof of Paul ' s supposed supernatural commission is deducibie from any narrative we have of any of
those scenes in which he is commonly regarded as having exercised a power of working miracles : this part is comprised in the fifteenth chapter , in the course of which our author will separately examine the occurrences generally thought to be miraculous . Part the fifth has a still more extensive
range : for here Mr . G —/ S—// will attempt to prove that the whole complexion of the narrative entitled the Acts of the Apostles is such as to render it incaj ) able of giving any tolerably adequate support to any statement whereby the exercise of supernatural
power is asserted . An Appendix will be added to establish the position that " for engaging Paul in the occupation in which he employed himself with such illustrious success , inducements of a purely temporal nature were not wanting . "
Having thus presented to our readers what , we trust , is a correct , perspicuous and comprehensive view of the preliminary pages of Mr . G—/ S—h's " Summary /* &c , we advance to his Titles of Chapters and Sections : on some of the expressions , statements and intimations which the y contain
we are compelled to animadvert . The narrative of Paul ' s conversion , and of the motives of that important change of sentiments and life , ( chap . i . and ii . ) will endure the most rigid scrutiny : in the accounts of them
xv . 8 . " For these references " the author is indebted to a friend . " They are ™ ade with accuracy : but Mr . G—/ S— should have <« himself examined them . "
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we discover substantial agreement amidst minute variations . Silence is not , of necessity , contradiction ; and from a comparison of Gal . i . 17 * with
Acts ix . 23 , it has been forcibly argued that both passages were dictated by Truth . The suggestion that Gamaliel might have some part in the plan of Paul , is not a little curious . It is the aim of the writer of the
Summary y &c , to shew ( ch . iii . —xiv . ) that neither Paul's " divine commission , nor his inward conversion , were [ was ] ever credited by the apostles , or
their Jerusalem disciples . " Now to this proposition we content ourselves with opposing Acts xv . 4 , &c , Gal . ii . 7—11 . For the sake of his argument , Mr ,
G—/ * y—h classes the " several Jerusalem visits of Paul" under the heads of fC Reconciliation Visit , Money-bringing Visit , Deputation Visit , Invasion Visit : " on each of these he professes to bestow his attention , and hints at
discrepancies which either do not exist or are easily reconcileable with each other . When he insinuates that the apostles endured Paul , on occasion of his
bringing to Jerusalem the money collected elsewhere-f for a charitable purpose , he really exhibits an unwarranted and a most serious charge against all those venerable men . If the accusation were
correct , how could such an endurance be justified ? How can it escape our condemnation ? In our own judgment , their reception of Paul , was a virtual if not a formal acknowledgment of his apostleship . The same remark applies to what Mr . G —/ S—h quaintly styles the Deputation Visit , to the interview recorded in Acts xv .: on what evidence
he can dispute the authenticity of " the apostolic decree , " we are at a loss to conjecture . Is it in Gal ii . 9 , &c , or in auy other passage , that this gentleman rinds a Contest and Partition-treaty F Contest we perceive none , nor any thing that merits the name of ^' financial stipulation : we see , however , the reciprocal
* Paley ' s Horae Paulinae , Ep . to the Gal ., No . II ., and Grot , in loc . f It was contributed by some of the Gentile Christians for those whom Mr . q —i s—h designates as the Jerusalem saints .
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Revieic . — " Not Paul , but Jems . " 233
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/41/
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