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    RiBLICmii CRiTieiSM.

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    Riblicmii Critieism.

    RiBLICmii CRiTieiSM .

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    tHE TEST , IMQS > 1 f OF JOHK BAPTIST Tp ! J ^ SjLTS , AX 1 > ' fijffifff ¦ /• - ' . CISM ON * JOHN , VI 6 ? . V . , , . .. M l 7 ; - | .. . ^ . ^ 7 ^ ^ the Editm ^ oj ^ the Monthli ^ 'Mbpbsitory .

    sir , Ealand , Feb . 17 , 1 SO 8 . Perroiti *» € > through the channel of 3 ?< m $ excellent pubirtation , to offer to your Norwich corre-^ pondeni , ( see vol . in . p . $ 8 ) a solution of his difficulty ^ for which

    I am , indebted to the Theological Repository fo rmerly pu bl i § bed by Dr . Priestley . It is , that the Baptist , when he says in respect to Jesus ( John i , 31 , 33 ) "I ^ kne w him not is to be understood

    , as meaniag—r ^ p ot tha t he had ; hg , d , no personal acquaintance \ yitti Jesus before his baptism , but-T- ^ that he was riQt . eyen then exactly sippriced , Qf / the . character which Jesus was to sustain . It will be

    remenibeyed , that the testiniopy of JuJiin , was ,,, that this his great successor was , intrusted vyith a commission more important than his own ( and therefore in the divine destination his superior , and consequently one who had been and continued to be . the

    object of his most serious meditation , v . 15 . 27 ) and that his own business was merely to announce the coming of this more illustrious personage , and to prepare the way tor his reception . Your correspondent will pardon me if I

    assert , that it does not appear that John bore witness to or even tnew Je # us as " the promised ^ I (^ a ^ V > " The highest expressio n , ^ u ^ eg coaceir r ^ j ^ g Jes us is , ' I bear Record tb ^ f " this is the

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    Son of * Go 4 « " And ^ tb&l there werq , a& ) && $% in theopiniqn of-th ^ Jews , $ p i *> e i ^ eas , ; annexed ? to the chara < Gl ; er pf *• ' Messiah " which were ijiot conn ^ Ql ^ d ] with tJiaf ^ of

    " Son -of < 3 t $ d 9 V sterns plain-frcim ? this con £ i 40 r « ettio * i : f that Jes ^ us ,. while , during his perspi ? fi | roinistry , < he * rep ^ i ]^ ed } y declared h ^ ni ^ self to ^ 0 i ^ a- ^ oin jof Qod ^ in ge-r n ^ ra l ^ studiously avoideti declaring himseU ; to be } the ; Miessiah ^ , p $ y £ forbadp ; 5 ly&fr aj ? Qs ^ es at that ; tj «* e

    to proola 4 ? n < l > iin as aucb <^ i o 4 «> ubt f 0 $ Mir-1 % oc ^ a bas r abundantiy pifove ^ j tj > at ; h £ might not bpc ;<> fl ( ic an qbjejet ^ oft ( Suspicion ttot the Roman gove ^ nnpiMH- ) : And ? it : i } $ ed not be wo / ndered at , that J ^ ii r * should , riot be Iwlly aqq ^ a ^ c ^ with thq character which Jes ^ i ^

    was to sustain-, as it plainly appears that he was aot fujly aAyare of his own : for , . when interrogated by the Jewish , wnicsscnger $ ,, *'¦• -yirfc ^ ther he were either JStias himpplf or the prophet ; foretold hy ^ At lachi under tha ; t nninQV' h ^ y pp * he

    sitively * asserted " tr ^ nt y [ H $ not , " ( John j . 2 } y ) and * yet ; oujr Lord himself expressly asserted afterwards that John the Baptist was the Elias who" was to come , ( Mat . xi . 14 . ) It appears that

    John , evien when his ministry wa » concluded did not knoi * rexactly what Josi ^ s . wtis ^ . fQF »< y 4 fi ) fa in fprijjpn , he seyjt ^ vOjfl ^ J ^ V ^ P ^ fR 5 ( on * hearing of the works of Jesus )

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• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/29/