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    wJifcfe fthe * fteretie&xresj ^ ctivety < tefri $ d . TI *© i jpnoposMbttbagairistf ; - tbose who ninialaiued : that ^ lesas * v&s not the ( jliri&Ulisi s th ^ t Resits ?> the Christ . Xfae p roposition agaimst those who allowed'fcliat ^ sus ris the Christ , but f

    denied tfeat hewas clothed in a real body ; is * that JesuS Christ was clothed in areal body . The writer who could make these two propositions one complex proposition , asserting the human and divine nature of the " Word

    incarnate , " grossly perverts the language of the Apostle , and had any thing for his object but truth . In the next page , Dr . Horsley broadly asserts-, that " the doctrine of the original Ebionites , and that of the

    Cerinthian Guostics , upon the point of Christ ' s divinity was the same . " The Ebionites were the apostolic converts , who maintained the divine mission and simple humanity of Jesus , and were as opposite to the Cerinthiaas as John himself , who wrote

    against them . In the age of the Apostle , according to the Bishop , the Ebionites did not exist ; arrd yet he says that John censures them as Unitarians . Dr . Priestley notices this

    inconsistency , and desires him to account for it . His antagonist next feigns , in direct opposition to the unanimous testimony of the fathers , that the Ebionites and the Cerinthians

    were the same , and inasmuch as John censures the Cerinthians who were contemporary with him , he proleptkally censures the Ebionites who succeeded , though unknown to him ! Dr . Horsley was certainly a man of talents and learning , but being

    obstinately bent on supporting a system , he has wilfully or inadvertently , almost in every step of the controversy , fallen into errors of which a sensible school-boy would feel ashamed if laid to his charge . In his charge to the ^ . py > lie traces the doctrine of the Irmity through all the dregs of

    Hea-Ibeaism , as through a common sewer , and claims it as a revealed truth on the same principle which the founders ot the Alexandrian school adopted to undermine the gospel itself . If this |> e true , it furnishes a mortifying illustration of the nature of Bishop "oreley's faith in the Christian

    reli-*? ° { V . ** en the zeal of party spirit fcnall die with the system which he ka * attempted to support , the ten-

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    dency of thalt system tm diseited&iattev gospel by giving : iMheteiioof Heathen fable , will he acknowledged , J&tM jkjsw terity will do him the justice to suffer binri to moulder on the csarne ^ shell * witb Platinum and Porphyry . / Faridifr 'ferent will be the fate of his Illusi

    tnou 3 adversary Dr . Priestley . Hfe genius , his labours in the field irf science , in the restoration and sup * port of genuine Christianity , in the cause of civil and religious liberty , have endeared him to the roost :- vir .

    tuous and enlightened among mankind , in every part of the globe * aad induced those who think justly , to think higher of themselves for possessing the same common nature with him . Nor will his reputation as a scholar , a philosopher , or a Christian ? , be confined to one age of the world . His works will be found useful and

    important as long as error , either m morals or theology , shall prevail among men . The most distant generation will , indeed , reap the fruits of his zeal and industry , and hence regard with gratitude and complacency his honoured name ; as we now do one of those monuments of ancient

    art , erected on the pedestal of truth and virtue , though defaced , yet rendered more venerable by time ; white his enemies , and through him t&e enemies of Christianity as once deliw vered to the saints , shall here rot irt

    oblivion , like those weeds whicfe the ignorance and superstition of the dark ages have suffered to grow at it ^ bftsfc . BEN DAVI 1 X

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    Beaumaris t Sir , Aug . 7 , 1826 . HAD prepared a few observation ' s ' I in reply to Mr . N . Jones ' s letter in your last , ( pp . 409—411 , ) wheri I

    saw on the wrapper the notice issued ex cathedra , that the controversy idust be terminated , and I must be confined to a brief explanation- To

    be brief then . ' ] Mr . Jones must have greatly misunderstood my meaning , if he supposes that I intended ta assert , that k single inquiring individual Unbeliever could not have been found in tli £

    times of our Saviour and his apostles : My argument was , that no sueb similar extensive elas 3 then exUtfcct' k& now—that it was not against \ sM * h persona that the censures and c'dti-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/29/