Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
You have thought it not inconsistent with your dignity as a Bishop, to oppose the _Age of Reason by Thomas Paine_, and I, as a member of the community, find myself called upon to expose your reasoning, and stop the career of error. You disclaim controversy; but if your candour...
You have thought it not inconsistent with your dignity as a Bishop, to oppose the _Age of Reason by Thomas Paine_, and I, as a member of the community, find myself called upon t...
2. LETTER II.Your second letter begins with some nice distinctions between authenticity and genuineness. The whole reasoning seems to amount to this, that a book may be authentic, although n...
3. LETTER III.After what I have observed above, it will be useless to say much as to your third letter, in which you examine minutely the passages Thomas Paine has pointed out to prove the Pe...
4. LETTER IV.You enter again upon your favourite topic, genuineness and authenticity. I shall not repeat what I have already said. I confess my great surprise at your laying such stress upon...
5. LETTER V.Your fifth letter begins with stating the importance of the concession of Thomas Paine, that the books of Ezra and Nehemiah are genuine. You triumph, and think it a silent ackno...
6. LETTER VI.You begin your sixth letter by attempting to disprove the arguments of Thomas Paine upon Jeremiah. You acknowledge the disorder that prevails in the writings of this prophet; an...
7. chapter xxxvii. ver. 18, the verb is used in the same sense, _nonde sacerdotibus Levitis excidet ur homo coram me_, which is given in English, "neither shall the priests, the Levites, _want a man_ (or cease to have a man) before me." In verse...
8. LETTER VII.I now bring under review a few passages from _Holy Writ_, which I leave to your Lordship to explain, and which scoffers pretend to say are undeniable proofs of the stupidity of...