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what vYjstjou } , plenty and sinj-plicity ( J , ) ip j ££$ s of heavenly -grace ) are requisite , for its advancement and ho-Jiour I Positive ^ ssertion without rational proof , arbitrary interpretation of Scripture , passages detached from their connexion , ignorance or disregard of important facts in Biblical criticism , the feelings of religion
disunited from consistent doctrinal principles , and violent censures of those who approve not our views , will do infinite harm . Well-informed and
reflecting persons are , by such methods , repelled aad disgusted , when they might be attracted to the truth , if exhibited in its own characters , and in its mighty evidence . Ale ^ thia brings against Dr . Haffher the charge that " he is notoriously a
scoffer at vital Christianity , and does not even pay respect to the externals of Christianity . " If she has not solid proofs of the correctness of these assertions , she has incurred no trifling responsibility . She refers for
evidence to the Edinburgh pamphlet \ but I can find no evidence at all there ; I find only bold affirmations and heavy charges , resting upon anonymous authority . Of Dr . Haffner ' s private character I certainly know nothing . One
fact , however , I have derived from a source which I know to be pure and faithful . In the days of revolutionary fury and terror , under Robespierre ,
he suffered nearly a year ' s imprisonmeat , with the hourly expectation of being- publicly beheaded , because he would not renounce the Christian religion ; that is , because , with the strongest temptation to induce him , lie would not declare himself to be
what Alethia assures us ho is—an infidel I . sincerely regret the length of this letter ; but I venture to trespass so far as to add a translation of the last
sentence in Dr . Haffner ' s calumniated Introduction : " At what fountain can they [ his countrymen , to whom he is recommending the study of the Bible ]
better quench the thirst of the spirit and the heart , longing for truth and consolation ? Yes ; he who knows his Bible , who knows the divine instructions there contained , who apprehends them in their purity and brightness , and who in faith lias
received them into his soul—he no logger turms ^ side from it . h ^ ia mor e
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and naore inwardly satisfied that it ; g from God 5 he daily ^ joys it ^ evidenc e by its beneficial influence , an ioflu . ence which who $ pever experiences will unite with heart and mouth in the exclamation of Peter , * Lord , whither should we go away ! Thou alone hast the word , s of eternal life . *" J . PYE SMITH
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Concise View of the Evidence for the Text of the Three Heavenly IViu nesses , in Reply to the Strictures of the Rev . JV * . Evans . IN the Repository for July , ( nn 407—409 , ) the Rev . W . Evans has pronounced the following * judgment on the merits of Ben
David-< In reading Ben David ' s minute researches into the testimony of the fathers to the text of the Heavenly Witnesses , &c , one is inclined to assent to
his propositions ; but on reflection , the nature of his argument proves too subtle and complicate to retain the lasting acquiescence of the mind in his ingenious hypothesis /'
The text of the three Heavenly Witnesses involves a train of events which not only demonstrates its genuineness , but throws a surprising light on Christianity itself , as % t came from Christ and his Apostles . I feel an earnest desire to put on record , for the last time , a brief and luminous
statement of these events , not for the sake of Mr . Evans and other readers of the Repository \ n modern days , but of learned inquirers in a future age , who will prefer the evidence of truth to the authority of great names , and who will not have the temerity
and injustice to decide on the controversy before a full and impartial inquiry into the merits of the question . 1 . It has been handed down to us on the authority of Irenseus aud others , who had the best opportunity to know the truth , and who , in tins
instance , must have felt strong motives to disguise it , that Joh n wrote his Gospel against Ccrinthus and Ins followers : and the Gospel itseH furnishes sufficient internal evidence to
that fact . The system of that impos - tor was directly levelled against the gospel , as it asserted tUat Jesus , me man Jesus , was not the Son of boa or the Christ , this beijig » God wUicu had ( tescendeci oa Jesus , at 1 * 1 * W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/52/
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