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    true nature and design of bis ministry itself , This Dissertation also is connected with the general argument of Dissertation viii . in Vol . I .: and its chief purpose is to establish a necessary , but clear , distinction between the proper office and character of John , in which he agreed with those of Jesus Christ , and the truth of his personal relations to Jesus Christ , in which be differed from them .

    * ' The sixth Dissertation endeavours to shew that , though St . Matthew ' s account of the order of the temptations may be the true , St . Luke ' s is not inconsistent with it . ' The seventh Dissertation carries forward the series of the Gospel history , and at the same time strictly exemplifies the supplementary character of the Gospel of St . John , by shewing that , beginning his narrative precisely where

    the other Evangelists had left off , he conducts it regularly down to the point of time where St . Luke , in particular , had begun again . To this Dissertation an Appendix is attached , designed to confirm a statement in the Dissertation itself , and involving the question of the computation of sabbatic years : one of which is shewn to have actually coincided with the first year of our Saviour ' s ministry .

    " The eighth Dissertation , which is divided into four parts , is designed to give a general preliminary or prospective survey of the whole course of our Saviour ' s ministry , both in Judsea , and out of it . The first part is devoted to the consideration of the ministry in Judaea , and its object is to prove that , as St . John alone has given any account of this ministry , so he has given a complete account of it . Each of the three last parts is devoted to a separate year , down to the middle of the third year in particular , where the review will be found to stop short : and their common purpose is not merely to give

    the student of the Gospel history a clear view of the course and connexion of his subject beforehand , but to contribute to the general purpose of the work , by shewing with what facility the Evangelical accounts , duly arranged , may be made to fill up the periods of time allotted to . them—to supply in a great many instances the most distinct proofs of the accommodation of the latter to the prior narratives—and to prepare the way for the discussion of particular questions by a better understanding of the grounds on which they proceed .

    " The Dissertations , which follow from the ninth to the fourteenth inclusive , are accordingly all devoted to the discussion of such questions : the ninth being designed to prove the conclusion that the miraculous draught of fishes , in St . Luke , is no Trajection : the tenth , that the feast which ensued on the call of Levi is no Anticipation : the eleventh that the sermons from the mount were distinct , and may each be related in their proper place : the

    twelfth , proposing to reconcile St . Matthew ' s account of the time and manner of our Saviour ' s interpretation of the first of his parables with St . Mark ' s , or St . Luke ' s : the thirteenth , to adjust St . Mark's account of the question concerning eating with unwashen hands to St . Matthew's : the fourteenth , to investigate the proximate cause of the disputes concerning precedence , and at the same time to establish the proof of a luminous instance of the supplementary relation of St . Mark in particular to St . Matthew .

    " It is the object of the fifteenth and the sixteenth Dissertations respectively , to prosecute the subject discussed in the eighth , and to exhibit another clear and decisive proof of the critical accommodation of St . John ' s Gospel to the three first Gospels in genend , and of St . Luke ' s to the two first in particular . " The seventeenth Dissertation has it in view to determine the locality of the village of Martha and Mary , so far at least as to prove that it was not Bethany : and by way of corollary to this disquisition to explain and illustrate the circumstances of the unction at Bethany . " It is the business of the eighteenth Dissertation to compare the account of the dispossession in St . Luke with the similar account of St . Matthew ;

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    On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives . 43

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/43/