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never appeared on the stage of human life . Taking the whole of his history and of his writings together , we say that the falsehood of his pretensions would be more miraculous than the truth of them , and that when Christians are accused , as such , of credulity , the charge recoils on their opponents .
How it was possible for Paul , in the fulfilment of the apostolic office , to entertain or gratify any desire of wealth , of ease , of fame , of patronage and influence ; or , indeed , not to change his
temporal condition for the worse , is a problem which Mr . G—I S—h must try to solve . In making the attempt , he must weigh all the minute and circumstantial accounts which that
writer gives of his moderation in exercising his undoubted privileges and his characteristic powers . He must do still more : he must shew how it was practicable for Paul , if his conversion had not been real and miraculous , to
have been a missionary to the Gentiles , how , on the supposition of his being either an impostor or an enthusiast , he could have preached with so much efficacy and success , and whence it has come to pass that , from the earliest age , and with an almost perfect
unanimity , multitudes , and among them those who possessed the strongest motives for examining the case , and the best opportunities of judging of it , have received his Epistles for what
they profess to be—apostolic letters . If antiquity be no decisive proof of the correctness of an opinion , it is of great force , however , in attesting historical and epistolary compositions . Nor even here will the task of the author
of the Summary , &c , be finished . He must refute , if he can , the argument m favour of the Acts and of the authority of Paul ' s writings , which is built on those undesigned coincidencies with
each other that they severally exhibit : he must teach us why Paul is in any measure to be credited , if we may not also rationally admit his claims to be one of the apostles .
To Mr . G—/ S—h we are strangers . Some prominent singularities in the phraseology and arrangement of this pamphlet , lead us to suspect that the name of the author i 3 assumed , and even direct our conjectures towards one or two individuals not unknown in fae republic of letters . On such a point we are satisfied to remain at pre-
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sent in doubt and ignorance . The grand subject unde r review , is one in regard to which soundness of reasoning , and not the strength of personal authori ty * will be conclusive . Since the writer
has thought proper , either for the sake of feeling" his way , or for raising public curiosity , to lay before the world a summary of his projected octavo volume , we have judged it our duty to lose no time in opposing to him those remarks which our attachment to the
Christian Scriptures demands , and which can be circulated through this channel . We consider it as happy that so important an inquiry is to be pursued in the United Kingdom , and in the nineteenth century ; and we entreat all our readers , but the younger part
of them in particular , to peruse and re-peruse Locke ' s Essay on Pawl's Epistles , George Lord Lyttelton on Pauls ' Conversion , Maltby ' s Illustrations of the Truth of the Christian Religion , and Winstar omnium ) the Horce Paulince of Paley . Ml ^ flH ^ M
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Art . II . —A Sermon preached at the Meeting-House in Monkwell Street , on the 25 th of February , 1821 , upon Occasion of the much-lamented Death of the Rev , James Lindsay , D . /) . who departed this Life , suddenly and awfully , in an Assembly of about Eighty Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations , on the 14 th Day of
the same Month , in the 68 th Year of his A < f € . By Abraham Rees , D . D . F . R . S . F . L . S . Soc Amer . Soc . Editor of the Cyciopredia . To vxhich is added , the Address delivered at the Interment of the Deceased , on the 23 d <> f February *
By Joseph Barrett . Hvo . pp . 56 . Longman and Co . and Hunter . TT ^ R . REES and Dr . Lindsay had JLJ pledged themselves to each other that the survivor should perform for the deceased the last funereal offices ; and the latter , though by much the younger , being first culled away by Providence , the venerable " Editor of
the Cyclopaedia" has redeemed the solemn pledge of friendship . The Sermon is a heartfelt tribute of affection , and respect to the memory edf the deceased , whose character no one ujv derstood better ox was more able to
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Review . —Dr . Rees ' s Sermon on the foeath of Dr . Lindsay . 235
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/43/
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