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< i Some b # * & tW >« gkfc the fip& s $ » d third chapters ! eemme , l > wt | eo # *? # w difference of styie lw ^ doub j ^ ^ h& se * cond . " That the gQiw ^ nei ^ 3 of" *^ W Epistles was dispjitedjnay be ^ dtni ^ d $ nor is it at all wonderful that , in coU lecting the books and settling th $ canon of the New-Testament * a
dispute should arise respecting ' the gem * ineness of some of those books : dispute naturally leads t to investigation , and investigation to the discoreigr . of the truth . Hie fact * hpwpyer , is , theMt the dispute terminated in favour of
their genuineness , -04 . is dear from their being received into the " canon of the New-Testament Scriptures . Are then the authors of the Improved Version prepared to shew that that decision was not made upon clear and
satisfactory evidence that those books were the genuine productions of those persons whose names they bear ? Secondly , the authors of the I n ^ - proved Versiqn state , respecting the Epistle of Jude , that * " it is -com manly believed to have been written by Judas , otherwise called Lebbeus and
Thaddeus , the son of Alpheus , ; the brother of James the Less , and first cousin , to our Lord / ' If it was , indeed , written by him , ( and this , according to them , is the common belief ) thea
is the Epistle not only genuine * but also of apostolical authority , and this must establish bath those points j for he was one of the twelve Apostles of our Lord , f
Thirdly , on 2 . Peter ii . 4 , they observe , X thai that passage ' * is the most doubtful portion of the Epistle , " and that " by those who ad out tfie genuineness of the Epistle , this chapter is supposed to have b £ en a quotation from some ancient apocryphal book . " They add , « The Epistle of Jttde is
opposed to allude to , or to > quote from , the same apocryphal work /' 9 the parallel passage in Jude , ver . <> , they say , Perhaps the writer may refer to some fanciful account of a fall of angels contained in the apocryphal book which Jay before him /' i'hat there ever existed , before the
* See Not ; e at the beginning of the Epistle . t See Matt . x . 3 ; Mark iii . IB . t Note in loco .
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YiAtingpf these Jbpktle $ , . apel * jl ^ Swcyfm account of a foil , of angels , ^ r such a ^^ pocryphat boojs : as that here supposed ^ out of vylaqh ^ ttese j ^ Titeff ipade their Quotation ^ tberp is ^ iiot ^ spadow of evidqwce , or a pr ^ tepce of evidence , much ^ ess is tn , ere any proof of the assertion , that Jude had this aipocryphal book lying before him
wAen ft p wrote his JSpisffe * fhe whole , r ^ &ts upon the per ^ ps y tite suppositions orthe assertions p £ ihe ^ authors ^ or upon the suppositions of otiers whi ^ h they ha » ve adopted . But wnat wdight can their suppositions or those of any other man have ip the decision of a question of this nature ?
' That the writers of these Epistles in tlxe passages under our consideration reier to the Jewish Scriptures , and not to some fanciful account in a supposed apocryphal book , I shall endeavour to sh $ w \> y the following
arguments ; l ^ rst , the authors of these Epistles , jin the parts alluded to ^ , are warning the Christians to whom they wrote , against false ^ teaqhers , by whona they would , --be in danger of being seduced from the faith of the gospel . Peter
says , ** -Pu $ thei'e were false prophets also a&iQng the people , even as there shall befa \ se teachers among you , who privily sliall bring in damnable heresies , eveij denying the Loj ^ d that bought them . " iwf of them he adds . " Whose of
judgn ^ enf nqw a long time lingereth not , and their damnation slumbereth not . ^ Jude gives a similar d escription of them £ " For , '' ^ ays he , " th ^ re are certain men crept in iii ^ awares , who were before of old ordained" ( before written ) " to this condemnation ;
ungodly men turpipg the gra ^ e -of out God into lasciviousness , and denyiiig thp only Lord" ( SccrTroT ^ y , the word used als ^ by Peter , " the only sove r ^ i ^ n " ) " God , and our Lord Jesus Christ /* They then s ^ t before them various instances of the judgments of God in
the puj ^ ishment of persons of this , description recorded if * the * Old-T ^ jstam ^ nt Scriptures . Peter mentions JEirst , the angels that sinned , who ^ a 0 > o < l did not spare—then of the destruction of the old world > which , « 4 ^ Q , he says God did not spare—and then the overthrow of the cities of Sodpua and Gomorrah , > vhich , » he say a , were ipade an example unto those that i ^ ft ^ r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/17/
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