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REVIEW. * l Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."—Pope.
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Review. * L Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."—Pope.
REVIEW . * Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pope .
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Art . I . — -A Reply to Two Deistteal Works , entitled , " The New Trial of the Witnesses , " fyc , and Gamaliel Smith s " Not Paul but Jesus . " By Ben David . 8 vo . pp . 296 . Hunter . 1824 .
BEN DAVID is our learned correspondent Dr . John Jones . * The writer who bears the name of Gamaliel Smith is understood to be Mr . Jeremy Bentham . The ** New Trial of the Witnesses' * is anonymous . Dr . J " ones is fully justified in calling
the works to which he replies €€ Deistical . " The anonymous pamphlet is designed to fix the charge of inconsistency and falsehood on the Evangelical history of Christ's resurrection , and the object of " Not Paul but Jesus" is to shew that Paul was an
impostor—a position wholly incompatible with the truth of the Christian Religion . The Reply' * consists of Two Parts : in the first , Dr . Jones gives " an
account of Antichrist , " in order to enable him to vindicate Paul , who waa the opposer of all the speculative error and moral corruption indicated by that term , and exhibits proofs of the resurrection and ascension of
Christ with a view to the objections of the author of the New Trial ; in the second he confines himself to answering Gamaliel Smith , Should the public encourage his labours , he proposes to complete his " Reply" by a Third Part , €€ containing the direct proofs for the divine authority of the
Apostle Paul . " In the proapect of its completion ^ he says in the Preface , ht feels an animating hope that he shill " furnish the public with proofs the most satisfactory , evidence the most triumphant , that Paul of Tarsus was neither an impostor nor a fanatic - y
* Dr . Jones bas acknowledged the nape in (< 4 An Answer to a Pseudo-Criticism of the Greek and English Lexicon , which appeared in the Second Number of the Westminster Review , " p . 52 , ) a pamphlet , which suggests some biblical criticisms , well worthy of the consideration of , the student of the Scriptures .
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verted , and endowed by him with divine power and wisdom to reform the world ; and that , in the discharge of this high commission , he exhibited an assemblage of virtues that place him next to Jesus of Nazareth in the re *
that he was neither himself deceived , nor that he attempted to deceive others ; but that he was , what he is represented to be in the Acts , an apostle of Christ , miraculously
concords of the human race . " In the beginning of Ch . I ., Dr . Jones draws the characters of the two writers whom he attacks , and we know not that they can complain of injustice or want of candour in the description : we think that he concedes too much
merit to the style of the author of the €€ New Trial /* who appears to us to be not only ill-formed on the subject which he undertakes , but also a very illiterate writer *
Strong as the public feeling is against " Deistical works , " we fear that Dr . Jones has placed a bar to the popularity of his iC Reply , " by the fearless avowal of Unitarianism
and by the large detail of his peculiar hypothesis with regard to the concealed Christianity of Philo and Josephus . If , however , we question the policy of this mode of proceeding , we cannot but admire the author ' s love
of truth , with which no consideration of worldly prudence is suffered to interfere . Christianity being attacked , he deems it necessary to a successful defence to shew what Christianity is ,
and the reader that differs from him most widely in his view of the gospel must allow his right to explain his own opinions , even if he cannot sympathize in his ardent zeal for their establishment .
The principal part of the first chapter is occupied with a statement of " thePrinciples taught by Jesus Christ as constituting the Gospel . " These were the Unity and Fatherly Character of God , the moral accountableness of man , future life by a resurrection ami the refinement of Judaism . In
conclusion , Dr . Jones says , " When Jesus commissioned his apostles to preach the gospel , he seems to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/27/
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