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speaks , were not those who returned from Petla after Adrian ' s demolition of Jerusalem , but those who came back , after the war of Vespasian , sixty years before that
of Adrian : and secondly , that Ax } uiia was employed by Adrian a * Jerusalem , antecedently to the breaking out of ther war , and cons&quetrtfy , that the Christians whom he saw and converged with
there , could not be those who returned from Pella , after the wan , to enjoy the privileges of t&e JEYr < xn colony . These two facts com . pjetely subvert the foundation of that irre history of the orthodox Hebrew Church ; , at JElia ^ which the archdeacon had borrowed from
aVfoshein * , upon the authority of Eftiph&nVus * The learned dignitary , now advanced to the See of Si . Davids , thus finding the whole body of these pious and ! orthodox emiw
grants returned upon his bancte , could devke na better fray-of * dispo&iBg of them , thaa by keeping thejH > dt home * where , as he i& pleas ed to tell his readers , uptoit his own authority , for he does not dven
pretend the sanction of history , tljey beba ^ ed very orderly aad peaceably cUuriog the Jewish rft » bdiiou and tHenefo ^ e vrefle not id * eluded in the ^ rfrjjerouV edict , for the banishment of tha Jtews , hue
wer ^ permitted setile qflietly at MJLim And thou ^ i bi ^ Ibrdahip coafesse « tfeM liw ^ w e » e neither cequiced by the entffferor ,, nor teoipted by « tny ptonwtte ^ f civil
tfci * Hegp $ 7 tei forsake the Mosaic »| u « 4 ,, yet sucbw ^^ tb £ exempl * - ry prudent ^ ai th ^ te ^^ hlofy bTOtteeea v ^^ tA « ttey ib « tt < kiB ^ at < Mice A « W « tott ^ ^ th ^ l ^ fo *^ a * hirs , i » t ^ J ^ V tl ^ y ^ tbew ^ lve ^ 4 lto « i ^ tal * bcttt ^ ^^ V tt ^* fib
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fondly atta < tbe « K * nd placed them * selves under the pastoral care of a gentile bishop ^ lest by the Romah magistrates they should be mi&taw ken for Jews ' * The learned p ^ relate baviBg th « s ^ helped oat a < teok ^ n
story by his own eonjectui-es ^** and having introduced these ' * saints of the primitivie ehurch 17 into good quarters in the iElian colony , now bids them fiarewell , and feirly leaves 4 i thei holy bretbreil , ^* tk » take the best care they can * of themselves . * The di ^ irbed foun *
dations of the church of MHiH ^ saj-s he , are agaki settled . I could wish to-leave them to their own solidity , to withstand any
future attacks . ^ Nor does it , indeed appear that his lordsbtp ever enquired after them any more , or gave himself any further trouble about them ,
This new edifice , lighter than air , falls of cocurse to the ground aU the touch of Dr . Priestley ' s wand * The indefiatigaWfe and ondauivted champion of the divine unity after challenging hte learned
opponent to renew tbe diapge ^ asd ^ i ses him for the future , to build fcis churches of soundfer materials ^ afid diBtwhen'he professes tO'writte « histoiry , fee would not entirely disregard the bumble su ^ tjefct of chronology i
Thus content with hie victory he retire ^ from tsh ^ field : but thoegh the exertions ofivis adversary were newardod with af mitre , 1 am for . bidden ro say that the bishop wHs equally well satisfied with the result at the discussiom
The character of Origen and e 6 e oxis ^ n c ^ of an o rthodox Hebrew chu ^ b ftt ? jflElia , which discarded tftfc rite * of the law w the princU p |* top * x » ^ 9 $ controve r sy between S ^ r ; ' Fterttoy < i mnd ^ Biw ferworiey - &timt t ^ itomhefawtr , of « tfcor
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S 42 Afr . Beltkam * s Keplpto the Rev ^ H . M&r&ty .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/22/
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