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I can't , my brother , but , condole with you the removal of our true * honest and ingenious friends , in their several ways , Dr . Worsiey and Mr . Oldenburg , since it has pleased God to call them hence so soon one after
another . Yet I am not without my fears that my mentioning of them may revive to your good nature the sorrow that I assure myself you received the news of their deaths with . But my experience ( though I put but an ill compliment upon you , by measuring
you by myself ) has taught ine , that it ' s safer to have these uneasy things taus , so far touched upon as to beget some vent for such sorrows , rather than by smothering them within ourselves , continue to us a longer exercise under them . They , each of them in" their way , diligently served their feneration , and were friends to us . hey have left no blot upon their memories , ( unless their not not having died rich may go for one , ) and I hope tliciy have carried consciences of uprightness ¦'¦ with them , and have made
their great change to tlieir everlasting advantage ; and if they be possessed of what we but hope for , and what we should press after , we need not lament for them 3 and for ourselves sucii losses , by the blessing of God are made to assist us , in the work he
calls us to , of getting ourselves weaned from this world , out of which , if the few pious and ingenious persons that make it tolerable , were once taken , what would be left in it but rattles ,
and fools to play and make a noise with them ; or instruments of cruelty and knaves to use them in doing mischief ? Therefore , let me beg you to banish melancholy thoughts upon these sad occasions ; and instead of
recommending serious ones to you , let me beg you to enjoy the blessing God has bestowed upon you , in an aBility of knowing how to entertain yourself , and converse with him in the absence of all other company , and in so doing to find that which may not oiily render that absence tolerable , but welcome . I am loth to conclude
after that , with threatening you with my return to you ; but the hopes of it « aay , at the end of a condoling letter ,
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Sir , Jan , 9 , 18 S 4 ^ " * THE Editors of the British Critic , in their Review far October last , confess that the Genealogies of Christ given by Matthew and Luke ,
is a subject encumbered with many difficulties 5 and observe , it is best reconciled by supposing , that Matthew traces Christ * s legal descent from David through Joseph , and that Luke traces Christ ' s real descent from David through Ms maternal line .
Permit me , therefore , through the medium of your valuable Miscellany , to recommend to these gentlemen , the perusal of Mr . Gorton's Solution of the Grand Scriptural Puzzle , the Genealogy of Jesus ; Mr . Wright's Essay on the Miraculous Conception ; and likewise the work of Rammbhun
Roy , ^ lately published by the Unitarian Society . For should the explanation of the genealogies given by Mr . Gorton be correct , there is at orice an end of every difficulty on ttie subject . And with respect to Mr .
Wright ' s Essay , I apprehend , that should his reasoning not convince the Reviewers of the error of their hypothesis , they will , at least , acknowledge , that it is very forcible and argumentative . And with regard to
the work of Ratnmohua Roy , I think every unprejudiced and dispassionate person , on a perusal thereof , mast be convinced , that the Prophecy of Isaiah , as expressed in the 14 th verse
of the viith chapter , had no reference whatever to the birth of Christ , but to that of Hezekiah , the son of Ahaz . 1 have been informed that the particular attention of the Reviewers was
called to Mr . Gorton ' s work in . July last , and I must confess , I am rather surprised , that they have not taken any notice of it ; although a very favourable opportunity presentecf itself , when they reviewed the seventh article contained in their Number for
October last . Is it , therefore , to be concluded , that Mr . Gorton ' s Solution is incontrovertible , and that , they
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/29/
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