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    But though my friend very candidly and fairly gives up the evidence of Matthew , Mark and Luke- he apprehends that he stands upon firm ground upon the authority of John < wtd Paul . u grand arguments for this doctrine of the pre-existence of Christ , are / ' says he , p . I 6 O > te to be found in the writings

    of the apostle John , who wrote his gospel professedly to supply what the other evangelists had omitted ^ and in the writings ot the apostle Paul ^ who declares that he received the knowledge of the gospel from Christ himself , and we cannot appeal to higher authority /* In this deference to the authority of these eminent missionaries of Christy I am happy to agree with my

    worthy friend : at the same time , I confess that it would appear tome very unaccountable if they alone should be com missioned to reveal these extraordinary facts , concerning which three of the evangelists are totally silent . Surely then we have reason to

    expect that the testimony , which is produced from their wntmgs should at least be explicit and unequivocal . Accordingly my worthy friend regards this testimony as clear and decisive * For , as to the gospel of John , he satisfies himself with producing a few detached texts as they stand in the English version , €

    e without any ,, or with very little comment , because , " says he , p . 167 , Cl they do not require it . If we take them in their plain and obvious sense they are sufficiently clear : and great ingenuity , with laboured criticism , must be used by those who understand them in a different sense /* i € O argument , O argument , the Lord rebuke thee / 5 was the

    exclamation of the honest quaker when he was puzzled to make a reply . But notwithstanding the quaker ' s objection to argument ., and my worthy friend ' s dislike of criticism ., I must still believe that the diligent use both of reason and of scripture are essentially requisite to the honest and resolute inquirer after truth . If indeed my friend can prove that the public version of the New Testament is divinely inspired , and that he is himself the authorized interpreter of it ,, I must then bow to his

    they walk with him to the garden , they desert him when he is arrested , Peter de - nies him in his presence , and when his disciples see him condemned and crucified ? they renounce ail further expectation from him . After his resurrection they converse with him almost with the same familiarity as before , and even after his ascension , and when they were endued with the holy spirit , they still represent him in their discourses both to Jews and heathens , not as an incarnate Creator , but as a

    man approved of God by signs and wonders , and gifts of the holy spirit , raised from the dead by th « power of the Father , and appointed by him to judge the world . Tliis i : \ the conduct -which die apostles might v / etl be supposed to have observed if toey regarded Jesus as only a human being ; but surely , it is utterly inconsistent with the supposition that he vv as the creator , supporter and governor of the world , an 4 *^ at they were apprized of thif amazing fact .

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    Mr . Belsuam ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures . 54 %

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 543, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/35/