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THE

BRITISH CRITIC,

FOR SEPTEMBER, 1815.

ART. I. Sequel to Ecclesiastical Researches, in which the Origin of the Introductory Chapters in Matthew and Luke is brought to light from Josephus; and in which the peculiar Articles of the Orthodox Faith are traced to the System of the Gnostics, who opposed the Gospel in the Days of Christ and his Apostles. By John Jones. Mawman. 1818. THE vain or fanciful theorist who undertakes the subversion of opinions, which have the sanction of immemorial prescription, must at least possess a becoming confidence in his powers. But a double portion of this quality, which has been seldom friendly to the discovery of truth, must have fallen to the lot of that lite rary adventurer, who engages in an open attack upon established religious opinions.

However mankind may differ in their notions of the truth which was originally imparted to the church, and delivered with the solemn injunction that it should be preserved uncorrupted; they must at least allow that the church has " contended for the faith" with that pertinacity which proves her to have been in earnest. The successive persecutions which she sustained, during the probationary period of nearly three centuries, which preceded the full and formal declaration of her opinions, in the first General Council, place this point beyond controversion. We shall not, at present, insist on the few inducements which existed to lead her to err in her integrity, as a proof of the purity of her testimony. The sentence which she then delivered, contains in its uniformity, that internal evidence of its truth, which must ever baffle the efforts of the sceptic to account for it; on any other grounds, than by admitting, that the sacred deposit was transmitted in that purity in which it was originally delivered.

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