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      ¦ which belong to the people . It is a high gratification that ministers enjoy when they see their friends ready and desirous to second them in what may be done for the public good ; and we gladly acknowledge that there is now

      a much greater impression of the importance of truth upon the public mind , and a much more general desire than formerly in our friends to study the Scriptures for themselves , to attend to the controversies that have taken

      place between the different sects of Christians , and to promote the plans which are proposed for the spread of Truth A . FRIEND TO THE SPREAD OF TRUTH .

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      Sir , July 18 , 1817-YOU will recollect the following passage so often deservedly quoted from the Seatonian Prize Poem ori Death , by the late Bishop Porteus . [ Mon . Repos . IV . 532 ] ¦ One murder made a villain , JMillions a hero ; Princes were privileged To kill * and numbers sanctified the crime .

      I suggested , Vol . IX . p . 464 , a probable origip of these lines from a passage of Cyprian , quoted by an anonymous writer in 1737 . I have since found the sentiment in a quotation from Zxtctantins , who flourished fifty years after Cyprian . The passage from Lactantius is in that curious and learned

      work , Dr . Hakewill ' s Apologie , or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God , in the Government of the World , a work often quoted or referred to in Law ' s Theory . I copy the original , with Dr . HakewilFs translation , from B . iv . Sect . 5 .

      * ' Si quis unum hominem jugulaverit , pro contaminato et nefario habetur , nee ad terrenum hoc domicilium Deorum admit ti eum fas putant , Me autem qui ififinita hominum mi Ilia trucidaverit , cmwre campos inundaverit , fluntina infeceritf non modo in templum , sed etiam in ccehim admittitur ; apud Ennium sic loquitur Africaniis ,

      ** Si , fas caedendo coclestia scaadere cuiquarn est , Ml soli cceli maxima porta patct . 4 Scilicet quid magnam partem generis hutnani extinxit acperdidit . JLactatitius . L . i . Ch . xviii . If a man kill but one , he is held for a villain , neither is it thought fit to admit him to the

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      houses of the Gods here upon earth ' but he who murders infinite thousands ' waters the fields and dyes the rivers with blood , is not only admitted into the temple , but into heaven . Thus in Ennius speaks Africanus : —

      If ? nan , by murdering may climb heaven assuredly The widest gate of heaven is open laid Jbr me . " Forsooth , because he had extinguished and made away a great part of mankind .

      Dr . George Hakewill , who died in 1649 , was , according to Weldon and Camden , an honest court-chaplain . In 1621 , he drew up an argument against the Spanish Match , which he

      presented to his master Prince Charles , who promised concealment , but immediately betrayed him to King James . He was , in consequence * committed to custody , and at length dismissed from his attendance on the Prince . OTIOSUS , —^—

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      574 Origin of Bishop Porteus ' s uncourtly Lines .

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      - Sir , Nov . 16 , 1817 . PERSON to whom T lately A lent " Jones ' s Ecclesiastical Researches , " returned it with the following memorandum . On turning to WhistonV Josephus , 1 find the following note , of which Mr . Jones takes

      no sort of notice : it is subjoined to Josephus ' s Account of Epaphroditus in his Preface . " This Epaphroditus was certainly alive in the third year of Trajan , A . D . 100 . Who he was we do not know . For as to Epaphroditus the freed-man of Nero , Tacit . Annal . xv . 55 , Nero ' s , and afterwards

      Domitian ' s Secretary , who was put . to death by Domitian , in the 14 th or 15 th year of his reign , he could not be alive in the third of Trajan . ' What is Winston ' s authority for stating that the Epaphroditus ,

      mentioned by Josephus , "was alive A . D . 1 OO ? It is upon this circumstance of his being the identical Epap hroditus mentioned by Paul , that Mr . Jones builds great part of his theory : but how does he prove it ?

      Besides the above note , Whiston has another in the first book of Josephus against Appion , as follows : — " Since Flavius Josephus" savs ^ f " Hudson , " wrote ( or ., finished ) his books of Antiquities on the 13 th of Domitian , A . & . 93 , and after this wrote the Memoirs of his own Life

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/34/