Remarks on the Version of the New Testament Edited by the Unitarians, With the Title of "An Improved Version Upon the Basis of Archbishop Newcome's ... Christians of Various Denominations on Some o - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814. Excerpt: ... and that though Christ was truly " a man of sorrows," the person who became so was nevertheless a super-angelic Being. I look upon it to be a case no longer admitting of dispute, that prophecies are necessarily obscure, till fulfilled. Surely, then, the records of such fulfilment must be a help to the due comprehension of the prophecies themselves. Every one knows, indeed you particularly mention it in your discourse, that the main obstacle to the conversion of the Jews, when our Saviour appeared, was a mistaken prejudice, which nothing but true, genuine Christianity could dissipate. Did they not all expect a temporal deliverer? Who undeceived them, and explained their own prophecies to them, but Christ and his Apostles? Suppose, Sir, then, the present race of Jews to be under the same prejudices; are our ideas of the Messiah to be regulated by their expectations, or by our Saviour's professions of himself? You seem to think the former; for you confidently refer, in p. 27. of the Discourse, to the expectations of some respectable modern Jews of your acquaintance, to determine not only the sense and meaning of the ancient prophecies, but to distinguish, even now, between spurious and genuine Christian Scripture. This may help, I think, to explain the notion you really entertain of your general principle, which, from the whole tenor of your discourse, I take to be no other than this, that "Jewish Prophecy is the sole criterion to distinguish between spurious and genuine Christian Scripture; and prophecy, only as interpreted by yourself, Mr. Jones, and others of your party;" or, in short, as Dr. Priestley would have said, "when properly corrected by an Unitarian." I cannot mean to be ludicrous upon such a subject; but truly this must be the plainest inferenc...