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    fest , that from the times of Pilate , the calamities which befei the Jews , originated in their atrocities against our Saviour . THEOLOGUS .

    P . S . A monumental inscription to Nero , is thus translated by Lardner , vol . vii . p . 248 . — " To Nero Claudius Caesar . Augustus , high priest , for clearing the province of robbers , and those who

    taught mankind a new superstition . " Jhstin Martyr , in his Second Apology , has thus recorded the words of one Lucius , addressed to UrbicuSy a Roman magistrate , on account of the

    unjust sentence passed by him , on an innocent Christian . 4 < Why should you condemn a man , convicted neither of adultery , nor fornication , nor proved to be a

    murderer , nor a thief ^ nor a rob * ber 9 nor , finally , accused of an } crime but of professing the Chris , tian naqie . " The enemies of the gospel were eager to confound its votaries with the Sicarii : and

    this is the reason why Josephus is so particular in not only distinguishing them , but in representing them as enemies to each other .

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    Mr . Nishett , on Bishop Horsley Sermons . Tunstall April 5 th 1811 ^ * Sir , . - « ¦ . The celebrated objection of « a- J

    Mr . Gibbon , that our Lord fore , told his second * coming to judge toe world , in the generation in which he lived , I had flattered myself I had found an adequate olution of , in the plain and simple but undeniable fact that the

    g ^ pel history is an history of the controversy between our Lord # nd ** » couQtrytnen , whether he was

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    the person whom they expected , as their Messiah , or whether , to use the language of St . Luke , if they were to look for another /' So important has this subject appeared to me , that I have

    endeavoured to call the public attention to it , perhaps , even to the extreme of folly . But Bishop Horsley , after having professed to pay particular attention to the subject , says— I shall now ven - ture to conclude , notwithstanding

    the great authorities the other way , that the phrase of our Lord ' s coming , wherever it occurs in his prediction of the Jewish war , as well as in most other passages of the Ne \ v Testament , is to be taken in its

    literal meaning as denoting his corning in person , in visible pomp and glory to the general judgment . " This opinion of the learned Bishop ' s , the -Edinburgh Reviewer thinks he has supported

    withbomplete success , and to give all possible weight to his opinion , he has expressly said that , in his proper science of theology , u we will not

    venture to suppose the Bishop hagl a superior ;' ' and he farther says of his Sermons , that \ even ordinary readers may derive more advantage from them than from any volumes of sermons which have

    issued from the press for the last fifty years /* I am very far from wishing to detract from the real merit of the

    Bishop , or of his Sermons— -but his criticisms upon the subject in which I am more immediately concerned , appear to me to have no claim whatever to the title of

    profound . On the contrary , I will venture to assert that they are wholly unworthy of his great name . Who , for instance , but the Bishop could have imagined that when our Lord said— * there

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    Mr . Nisbett on Bishop Hartley ' s Sermons . 291

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/35/