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Akt . I ' . —A Solution of the Grand Scripture Pu « xle \ tfie Genealogy of tems ; not only evincing the Au ~ thenllcity of the Tables , but explicitly proving the Story of the Miraculous Conception to be interpolated : With a Treatise on the Fall of
Adam ; eliciting the Primitive Meaning of the Original Account , and a Prayer to the Deity . By John Gorton , 3 rd ed . with Additions . 8 vo . pp . 40 . Hunter . 1819 . riT ^ HE work before us commences JL with a short Preface . Then
follows ft Dialogue between an Indian and a Briton , wjhich open * in the following abrupt and singular manner : " Briton . Since I find , Sir , th ^ t you dislike to enter generally into this topic , I will confine myself to one particular question , a question which has long agitated the learneil world , and given ri ^ e to a , good deal of dis cu ssion .
The subject which I mean to propose , is the genealogy of Jesus Christ , af it is given by two of his bipgraphexs . The Ihdiah is now told tlutf tke Messiah was tf > desee » 4 lineally from David , and is directed to peruse the first
chapter of Matthew ' s Gospel with ^ attention , in order to obtain satisfaction on this point . He follows the direction giyQn to him , and is perplexed . He finds thfot the first seventeen verses of this chapter give a complete genealogy x > f Jesus ; but that , in the remainof
ing '' part of the chapter , the fa ^ t his descent flro ' m David is entirely set aside , and the conception of Mary is represented as a miraculous one , or , in other words , as having taken place without the intervention of a man .
He is now instructed to consider the iriiraculous conception as the fulfill ment of ^ a prediction coptaiaed £ « Isaiah vu . J 4—16 ; bu $ , on turning to the ; passage , he fouls tjx ^ t the first four verses of the following chapter contain a literal and exact account of the accomplishment of this prophecy .
TTipJ ^ jaton acknowledges the truth of this reowk - and ., at the Indian ' s owp reauesf * directs him where to ijnfj JLiike ' f g"e * i © alogical table . Notmng can exceed ( he astonishment of "th *
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poor Jj » dw # r op turning to this table-The names he fjads to be almost entirely different fram those which he had met with in the pedigree given by Matthew ; and be is informed thai tlub table "belongs not t < y Joseph , but to the wife of Joseph ; that a great deal of pains has been takeu to shew
that Luke , when he wrote this genealogy , did not know what he was writing ; and that , when he registered Joseph ' s name , he intended to have entered Mary ' s . " " This is strange , " exclaims the Indian . " For my own part /* rejoins the Briton ^ who has hitherto appeared under a dubious
kind of character , " I confess , candid ly , that I apprehend Luke is perfectly correct in his account , ami that his expositors are decidedly wrong in their construction of it . " "Excuse me , Sir / 9 replies the Indian , "but I conr
ceive you will have some difficulty in reconciling these two tables . " The Briton , hp w ^ v ^ r ^ confident as to the strength of hie own argument , ptoceeds to shew in what manner these two apparently £ &&flicting accounts may be reconciled . In the first place
he states that th ^ re h not ont aylJuble in any o € the gospels to prove that Mary belonged to the tribe ' of David ; and from tMs circumstance he infers the extreme improbaUilUy of the
common opinion upon this subject . He then goes on to shew tfc ^ t Matthew ' s is the genealogy of Joseph'a farther , a ^ d LuK e ' s t&e ^ ejtifeaiog y of his mother . *• Thf-Jearofcd k $ ow very wsell /
says he , ^ tljat it wfl » formerly customary amo ^ the J « ¥ ^ lo denorainate , on the female stntefc wb grandson the ^ on ; and ^ b y the ? « te | e i ^ ule , id M term the gTitfitlfatter the Ifelhcr ^ * miderstmul yaw > Sir / ' rrepMee tfa 6 Iiidian ; " this exposition readers all plain . I now perceive that Josfepb is ooubly ( if I may pq express myself [) descended froi ^ i David : he cteims his Jiaeagc both fr << waa Soioffron land Natlian , who
wore bFOthiew ^ aad Hhe 8 o « a of © avia . " ^ He do 8 so / ' rej oins hi © companion JJ ^ hem itjkte Imfism statta on objeotion , wd bwsvto ^ iirforixi 0 d w ^ Uim theory doe& not " produce a sus-
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K^. . , ≫ - ¦ ¦ • ¦ " ^ . ¦ • " ¦ ¦ ≪F Sdll Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame." — -Popb.
k ^ . . , > - ¦ ¦ ¦ " ^ . ¦ " ¦ ¦ < f Sdll pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " — -Popb .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/38/
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