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a large po rtion of this autnbirtt volume , is the assumption , ( p . 59 , ) that Saul incurred ttte guilt of treason , when , converted , as he was , to the gospel , he refrained From ( tefseputiag the Christians at Damascus . The
Roman government was , at that time , the only earthly power against whom Saul , or any other Jew , could commit tremon : and the Roman government had not authorised the persecution . Were the Jews , at the sera before us , a sovereign people ? Could Mr .
Gamaliel Smith be tmaequamted with their political subjection and dependeftce ? Is it only by these inaccuraries of conception and of language that he can plead hfe c&Use ? What would he say to the believer , who should permit himself to fall into these mistakes > - ^ Probably , what we
will say to kirn , Tantamfte rem tain negligenter agere ! Kut a tittle grossefr £ rtfbr must be exposed . fife continues to maintain that Paul was guilty of an act of perjury . * In other woWls , Mr . Gamaliel Smith dotes not distinguish an exculpatory oath from a Nazaritic or some other v ^ vt . t ^ e entreat those bf Ms
readers into whose hands our pages tome , to consult Acts xxi . 18 , &c ., and then to ask themselves , wkethe * iihy , a"nd What , perjury \ Vas committed by thfe Individual Whom this atithof styles ** the self-constituted apostle /' Perjury is the fviifal Vtoldtioik of the truth wlitch h&s been dictated , or of
the assurance which has been , givfeia , under the solemnity of ah ohth . 'that man is perjured who forswears him * self . Paul , nevertheless , on the occasion to which refetfeiice has been made ,
violated nothing . He hatl contracted ,, no doubt , a certain obligation , from , which he gained his discharge , exactly In the way prescribed by the legal In * stitutions of his cotanttfy . A vow is not an oath : a vow is then Violated when it is not fulfilled . Y £ fc PaM
fulfilled hte ( we do hot How inquire what it wias ) with the utmost punctuality . On his becoming a Christian , it was perfectly optional with him to observe or not the Levitic&l injUftCtionfc / f At > Mon . Repos . XVI . 234 . + Dr , George Benson has some valuable observations on this case in his His * tory of the Fjrst Planting of Christianity . ( 2 d cd . ) II . 227 , &t .
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a period , and in an instance , of which we have no precise knowledge , h ^ had bfotqght himtelf under the obligation of a vow : ^ hd bein ^ with injustice suspected atid accused , by some of his countrytnen , of hostility to the law of Moses , he refutes the accusation , by
performing those legal ceremonies which , in his OWn case , he had never renounced , and by assisting others to perforin them . An author , nevertheless , whd can affirm that zvyfi signifies tin oath , * may well refrain from dis * criminating between rows and oaths : he who sees no difference between the
names will , of course , see tto difference in the things . What can fair and candid readers think of the foHtfwi& £ paragraph ?—>• Pp . 361 , &c . t € Now then conies the trial . ( Acts Xxvi . 1 . ) Scenie , &t Caesarea , the Eiupe-Tro ^ s benbh . L 6 rd Chief Justice , Roman
Governor Festtis ; Puisne judge , JeSti Sub-king Agiippa . Present ' feerhic ^ ,, • chief captains and principal men of the city / Special accusers , none . Sole speaker , whose speech is reported , the de « fendaut . Points in dofeudaut ' s speech , these z" &c .
Obviousfy > there w&--no trial at all . The Jewish prinoe , Agrip » pa » wished to hear the prison ^; and Agrippa ' s % vish was gratified . For the rest * « o burlesque a method of treating th ^ subject , as this paragraph disclb ^ esy id alike revolting to correct taste and to manly fteli ^ gw
Against credulity Mr . Ga « ifeiliel Smith perpetually levels his repfo&diesj sometimes in direct terms—sometimes by inuendo * Yet he endeavours to persuade us that Pattl is the Antichrist whom Paul denounced and stigmatized ! f
Of the synopsis of this wtirk we took aueh notice as we deemed it to require . J Internal « vkl ^ ac 6 ted us to ascribe it , in out own minds , to a writer of no owfiaeury metfit , yet of considerable singularity in method and
in style . To that distinguished individual it is now unhesitatingly atirl-Imted : and the puWic feeems to understand that Gamaliel Smith is the nom de gkitt 7 kr& of Jeremy Befttham . It is , we confess , a mortifying
disco-^ J ^ lA-A ^ m-A —^ fc ^ Li-l ^^ A ^ l-.-J . ^ j- \ . J i . ' ti * * . -1 ' \ *• ¦¦ > K ¦ ¦ ;¦ ; ¦ >__ * V V' >¦ ¦ *^_\ _ ¦ . J . * P . 261 . f Pp . ^ 7 l , &c . t tilou . Kep&S , XVI . 231 , & £ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/42/
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