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    are many , who wQuld rejpice if lie had tormented us with scorpions * Thank God , their power is not equal to their good-willl . M ^ f friend still adheres to his 41 favourite doctrine , * of the ex . istence and power of a . great dc

    xily and ho is determined that En&tlruen shall be , really possessed cither by human ghosts , or by devils * no matter which . This , ke says * ** i& , pf no moment . ' * in this opinion- ^ I believe , my : friend stands gloriously alone , , To prove that possessing demons arc hunui | i spirits has hitherto been regarded us involving the consequence that nojsscssions are not real . If niv

    i ' riend can believe . that it is con-, si > tent with the Christian doctrine of the state of the dead , that .

    wickcd ghosts should b , e penni t led to . p ' 05 . s , ess and torment living men ! shall not attempt to reason him out of it . Jtfy . worthy friend still continues to . admire -the piety of the idolatrous heathen , and had it uot been for the frightful picture of the heathen worlch , drawn b y the apostle Paul in his epis'rie to the 1101 nans , so different frorn that

    i )( my candid friend , one might have been tempted to ask ^ what it > the use of Christianity ? 1 seek in vain for an answer to the question I proposed , what were my friend's authorities for his assertion that the doctrines of 5 , 1 God , a devil , and * a mediator

    to . rectify the evil done by the latter / ' were the belief of the icmoiest and purest ages of antiquity ? My friend only upbraids my ignorance , and sarcasticall y hints that u if I had studied

    ancient history as much as metaphysics , " 'I should have known better : The fact however is that for on ^ hour employed in meta-

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    physics , I have spent three at least in perusing ancient hiitory , and froiji ^ iny own knowledge I will venture , to affirm that ( no such strange doctrines , asf these which my . friend states ^ ^ r , etq be found in the Greek or Latin his .

    tonans of the highest repu . te , I cannqt however ' boast uf j ^ Bcin ^ g deeply read inthe histories / of Manetho , Sa « ncho , niatho ' n or Be , * rosus . who have written rue-, moirs of fifty or a huncli ^ d thou sand years past ? i > or c ? in . I quote the works of Zoroaster , or Confucius , wi ^ h the familiarity with which my friend cites them ; , If jt is from the ^ c high authorities that he has derived his information , I must acknowledge that Herodotus and TbucydideSj Livy

    and Tacitus , nay and even iYI ose ^ and the prophets , are modern writers and mere children in corii ^ parjson with them . My friend has a curious me * thod of substantiating his charge against Dr , Priestley , of disparaging the character of Christ-Dr . Priestley maintained that Jesus was a man with the

    incidents and infirmities of human nature . Therefore he lessens our reverence for Christ . Is this reas oning ? v Can rny friend prove Dr . P . ' s doctrine to be erroneous ? Or ., that Dr . P . " ponies to Christ any hofnage ancl ^ regard whict Jesus claims ; an ^ l which his

    character as a holy and inspired prophet authorises and warrants , ? Let my friend ^ rove this , and then let him pass his censures , if he please . My worthy friend in his sue *

    / reeding paragraph with mucti propriety animadverts upon those graceless wights , who presume to laugh at nonsense when she h

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    360 Mr . Behham ' s Reply to Mr * Carpenter * $ Remarks .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/8/