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The hypothesis that all were inspired , and equally so , is alike gratuitous , and baneful to the credibility of the whole . The doctrine of the Inspiration of the Scriptures at large , has made more unbelievers than any other cause , except the vices of professing Christians —Mr . Greswell seems prepared to admit every thing . " The consequence of a common inspiration , " he adds
to the passage already quoted from p . 40 , " is a common infallibility—and , in a common infallibility , there can be no difference in degree nor variety of kind—alj must be alike infallible , or none could be so . "—He must have written and even printed this before he entered into all the minutiae which the construction of his Harmony brought before him . In many parts he writes as those may who are not burdened by so groundless an hypothesis .
We may observe before we proceed , that when giving ( p . 46 ) coincident passages in Matthew and Luke which , he contends , were not identical in time , he quotes the Received Text of Luke xi . 2—4 . There seems to us \ no room to doubt that the prayer in Luke was delivered at an earlier period than the Sermon on the Mount , in which the prayer according to which we are to pray was delivered ; and that the two prayers were not identical , we entirely agree with Mr . Greswell ; but when he was pointing out
coincidences , he should surely have employed a text which , as every critic must allow , at least approaches more nearly to the original than the Received Text . In this case , the differences between the prayer in Matthew and that in the amended text of Luke strike the mind more than their agreement . In the following parallel we arrange St . Matthew ' s text according to the plan adopted by Mr . Greswell in p . 47 , and throughout his Harmony ; employing Griesbach's text in Luke .
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The conclusions to which the author comes near the close of the Third Dissertation—** On the Irregularities of St . Matthew ' s Gospel" — are stated in the following paragraph ; and this gives a fair specimen of the system of assertion and inference which too much pervades the work : " It cannot , then , now be doubted whether St . Matthew ' s Gospel is safely to he made , throughout , the basis of a Harmony for the rest —or not . Tim argument of those learned men [ who they are , Mr . G . does not give his readers the means of knowing ] who contend that , because he would write as
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On t / ie Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives . 37
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/37/
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