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480 Review . *—Dissenting Registers of Births , Marriages and Burials .
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himself , now writing , as some other persoii who had previously borne a signal testimony to the fact in question . cc If the Evangelist meant himself , there would have been little propriety in the appeal which he makes , as it would be
only an appeal to his own authority . On the contrary , nothing was more decisive and forcible , than appealing , in corroboration of the death of Jesus , to the evidence of a man , who , like himself , was an eye-witness of the event , and who suffered torments in attestation of its
truth . " That the soldiers alluded to became converts to the gospel , and that the sacred writer had , on this occasion , their conversion in view , is demonstrable from the prophecy which he cites , and of which he considers that conversion to be the
accomplishment , —* And again , another Scripture saith , They shall look upon him whom they have pierced , * That is f ' They shall now love him , whom they before hated without a cause ; they shall regard with regret and compassion the Saviour
whom they had cruelly slam ; or , in the words of Zachariah , whence the Evangelist has copied this prophecy , * They shall moutn for him as one mourneth for his only son , and shall be in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for his first * born . ' Zach . xii . 10 .
" That the soldiers whom the Jewish rulers intrusted with the execution of Jesus ^ did , after they had put him to death , receive him as their Saviour , is a fact very probable , from the Evangelists Mark and Luke , who represent the leader of those soldiers , as openly declaring his belief in the divine mission of the
illustrious sufferer , while yet standing at the foot of the cross : * And when the centurion which stood over against him , saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost , he said , * Truly this man was the Son of God ; Mark xv . 39 . Lastly , it is not only handed down as a vague tradition in the Chiistian Church that the
centurion and the soldier became converts , but the Greek and Latin Churches have a festival instituted in memory of their martyrdom , which surely could not have taken place , if their conversion had not been a notorious fact /'—Pp . 41—43 ,
There follows a well-sustained dia ~ logue , in which the author represents the Evangelist Matthew under examination in a court of justice ; and here are answered , and we think we maysay , satisfactorily , the popular objections to the accounts of the resurrection . We cannot subscribe , however , to all the author ' s statements . He
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asserts , for example , that Luke himself was one of the two disciples whom Jesus joined on the road to Emmaus ! And this fact , he says in the Appendix , p . 274 , may be gathered from the
narrative , for the historian speaks in more places than one in the first person . Is this correct ? In every place where the first person is used in the narrative , the historian is relating the conversation of the disciples . " They said—— . t €
we trusted , " &c . They said one to another , Did not our heart bum ? " &c , In relating a dialogue an historian does not , surely , put off the third person and assume the persons of the speakers ; especially when he notifies to the reader that he is recording a conversation . t To bfc continued . }
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^ Art . II . — Dissenting Registers of Births , Marriages and Burials , examined as Documents of Evidence . By A Barrister . 8 vo . pp . 50 . Offor . 1823 . ls . 6 d .
T I MrllS is the production of a re-JL spectable Dissenter in the legal profession . If it does no more , it shews the uncertainty of the law on the point in question , and this is
ground sufficient for the author ' s recommendation of a general application on the part of the Dissenters for some parliamentary measure that shall take their property of inheritance out of jeopardy . late
A decision in the Rolls' Court has , we think , occasioned unnecessary alarm with regard to the validity of the Register of Births kept by the Deputies at Dr . Williams ' s Library . It never was supposed that this register was legal evidence of the first degree : it is however good evidence of
the second degree ; and there are , we believe , cases to shew that this evidence is admissible in most courts , * provided that better cannot be obtained . No form of certificate amongst Dissenters can be equal to a parochial registry ; but it would be extreme folly in them to neglect this security before they gain another and better .
m We say in most courtSj , because legal decisions are sometimes influenced by the personal character of judges . Cases of this kind , affecting Dissenters , will occur to the recollection of every reader .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/32/
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