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^ 1 and purpose which it was intended , and especially framed , to answer * Whoever ; $ ijV pursues tMs eourse ,
with the patience and deliberation necessary , will , I roust think ,-coine with me to the infallible conclusion / that it is the work of that malignant wight , whom , were he mortaL our Milton
and Byroii have associated with their own contras ted , yet imperishable names . And , if it be asked , what could be his motive to bestow time and labour—for no small portion of
both , it must be allowed , was requisite , even in his hands , for such a complicated performance—upon a subject so revolting ? What more obvious than the answer ? To bring Christianity into disrepute !
It is worthy of observation , too , that this Creed , which purports to be a summary of what Christians are to believe , omits the very essential orthodox article of the author ' s personal existence ; wherein we may trace the
art of its fabricator , who was too wBy not to foresee that any direct mention of , or allusion to , himself , might have raised a suspicion of the truth , and caused the rejection of a document suspected of proceeding from such a quarter .
The singularity , the intrepid obscurity , the dashing involutions of this Creed , invest it with such a character , and render it so perfect a unique , that , had it been the work of any saint ,
martyr or confessor , that of any denizen of earth , in any age , it is next to impossible that the author of it should not have been equally known and celebrated .
Adverting , therefore , again to the internal evidence pervading it , and coupling that with the total absence of any contrary proof or rational presumption , I consider my point
established , and scruple not to anticipate a very general , if not an universal , suffrage of thanks to me , for having thus set an important and long-contested , as well as troublesome , question at rest .
BREVIS . P . S > It might also be observed , collaterally , that the Athanasiati Creed supplies no feeble argument for the Devil ' s personality ; in as much as all must now be convinced that such a
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composition could only proceed from meh a &eing * * I have not quite forgotten the notice conferred on Mjr . Burgh ; and , if either University should be disposed to grant me a diploma for
this communication , I would not decline the honour ^ and though I have hitherto reserved my name even from you , Mr . Editor , it should be fredty at your service for such a purpose ;
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Chesterfield ^ v Sir , Marekb ^ iS ^ il IN my first paper on Isaiah ix . f , ( pp * 2 k—24 , ) I had occasion to allude to the reverence paid by the Jews to the four letters composing the name Jehovah . I called it super stitious , and , in allusion to its
antiquity , stated that it was in use " ut least as early as the time of Josephus f * to prove which , I quoted a passage from the second book of his Jewish Antiquities . " This , " says Mr , Frend , ( p . 1 € 9 , ) " is certainly a pfrobf thltt
in the time of Josephus , the same regard was paid to the hallowed name as prevails in the present day among his countrymen . But I was rather surprised , " he adds , " that the authority of Josephus was appealed to , when a much better was at hand . For the
writers of the New Testament , in their quotations from the Old , never use the hallowed name , but substitute for it the terms , the Lord—God —~ 6 r the Lord God , " That the writers of tlie
New Testament never use the original Hebrew word , I was well aware ; but I certainly never thought of adducing this fact to prove that the custom of
not writing or pronouncing the name of Jehovah prevailed in our Saviour ' s time , and least of all , that such a custom was directly sanctioned by Ms example . My object was to adduce the earliest positive testimony which I could find in proof of its antiquity ; and that I did when I quoted the
passage from Joseplms . Nor am I singular in the idea , that this is the most ancient direct allusion to the practice , which has yet been produced , notwithstanding Mr . Freud's expression of ' * surprise that the authority of Josephus was appealed to , when , " what he deems , * a much better was at hand ; " for Winston , in Ms note upon this very section > gives it at his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/29/
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