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sections of his work with such mat * ter as the foregoing , in which the same passages are repeated and the
argument drawn from them reiterated , he at length ventures to recite some of the leading particulars as they stand at the beginning * of the two Gospels in confifmatkm of his point , mingling the accounts , but without asserting that they are containefl in
** the Commentaries of the Apostles and their companions , " as he usually does in other eases when quoting from their works , or appealing to their authority . This is the more
remarkable , as shortly after , when referring to the undisputed portions of their narratives , he expressly says , that * the apostles have left upon record that the Holy Oh # st came upon Jesus like a dove when he came to John ,
being as was supposed the son of Joseph the carpenter , and being supposed to be a carpenter himself , and a voice came from heaven , that which was said by David , speaking in the person of Christ , ' Thou art my beloved Son , this day have I l > egotten thee , ' affirming that his nativity was then made known . " Here is an
evident attempt to support his position on the authority of the evangelists , by altering their words to agree with an ancient prophecy supposed by Justin to apply to the birth of Jesus , but which is by Paul applied to bis resurrection . Our author now ,
increasing in confidence with his imagined success , proceeds to assert " that he was begotten of the Father of the universe , and was made man of a virgin , a $ we have learnt from the commentaries we have already shewn /'
Hence it should appear that it is not so much on the authority of those * ' Commentaries / ' as on the preceding arguments from the ancient Scri ptures , that Justin grounds his faith concerning the miraculous
circumstances of the nativity ; and as he betrays a caution about appealing to apostolic authority in relation to this subject , the reverse of which he manifests when appealing to the undisputed writings of the New
Testa-^ nt , there seems every reason to conclude , that it was then regarded as « xtremd y suspicious . That his in-« re nces from the Old Testament are jUnagiaary and futile , will , I believe , *>* admitted by all who are likely to
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read these remarks . Now since it ia in application to this one portion of the New Testarrient and to no other , that this writer fails so miserably i » his proofs , th < fugh evidently very solicitous to establish its authenticity , to what other cause can this fkihire be ascribed but to the total absence of real and substantial evidence ?
The above extracts and references to the dialogues of Justin Martyr with Trypho the Jew , are taken from the translation of Mr . Henry Brown , beginning at Section xttii . to Section xc , the subject being treated of or alluded to through m&ny of # he intervening sections . T . P .
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Slavery in the United States of America Out , out , damned spot ! Shakspeare . 9 Islington * Sir , July 1 , 1826 . AMONG the strange anomalies of the age is the existence of
Slavery in the United States of America . This dark spot overshadows and debases the southern districts , more especially the Carolines ; there it is seen in its native baseness , inits detested malignity . From Lambert's Travels into Canada and the United
States , 1806 —1808 , an instructive and entertaining work , it appears that in the State of South Carolina , since its settlement in 1670 , the small colony sent over under Governor Sayle remained pure and uncontaminated for several years . But in 1 / 23 , we hear of 18 , 000 Blacks and Mulattos $
in 1734 , 22 , 000 ; in 1765 , 90 , 000 ; in 1792 , 108 , 000 ; in 1800 , 150 , 000 ; and in 1808 , 200 , 000 i What a huge and rapidly increasing mass of iniquity ! We shudder at the outrage perpetrated on the feelings of humanity in a land of liberty ! Tell it not in Gatft , publish it not in the streets of AsU&lon *
Mr . Lambert writes on the suhject with impartiality . He advances all that can be said by way of extenuation . He deems the poor slaves ^ \ vith a few exceptions , weU treated- But this alters not the moral turpitude of the traffic , which reason and religion alike consign to e ^ c ^ tiom ; |/^ ake the author ' s own account : It iSsTa true
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Slavery in the United States of America . 403
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/23/
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