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r Num sit down satisfied, that no man, whether be were a Christian or nut—whatever in short might he his re ligious tenets—that while Christianity continued a part of the law of the land, no subject could be permitted to defame it, and revile It, as the Defend ant had done ; and under such circumstances, he conceived it would be imp oseible for any Jury to p r o n ounce a verdict of elevated. ffe would OW state that which was well known to his Lordship, as at the proper time he would state to them, that to revile, with a vie* to bring into contempt the Cliris. then religion, was contrary to the common lari of the laud. It was also an offence against various statutes, if it hail been necessary to refer to them no the present occasion. Ile should, therefore, Lind no diffiorilty in 'hewing, that that with which the Defendant was charged moat always be regarded as a criminal offence, for which the party commit i.ne it was liable to punishment. The first case to which lie would call the seteution of the Court orcurred so long ago as in the time of King Co w les 11. It was tried bef ore a Judge, who, sa long as British law should endure, would be held in the highest estimation, as a lawyer and as a mall. Ile meant Sir Mathew lisle. It was an informa. ton against a permit of the name of Taylor, for forret y attiring blasphemous expression.. Ile would iiot disgust the Jury by repeating the words he had nursed, as they were horrible to hear, though not worse than those which it would be his duty to L ure hail been published by the present Defendant. Tailor, it was proved, had called religion a cheat, and declared that he feared neither Goal 110 f Devil. lleing on his trial, he o w n ed the vrorde, but endea voured to spew that part of them had been uttered with a meaning different from that which had been sooposed to attach to them. The Judge decided, that to say religion was a cheat was not only an effelice against religion, but also on offence against the law, a. it .went to dissolve till those oliligations vhicli held society together. This was the decision of Sir Mathew lisle; yet now they were told by the present Defendant, that the charge brought tigaiirst him had no foundation in law. Ile would ssv, in the language of the Learned Judge that he lati jest mentioned. that to revile t h e Christian tel riott was ti not only an offence against God, but also egeinst the law of the State, and the government of the realm." Taylor was convicted, and a very severe sentence was given against him. But the precedents that might be teds!uced did not stop at the period to which he had gone back. At the commencement of the reign of George the Second, a person named NVonllastott was convicted on four informations. lie attempted to justify himself by impugning, as hi• hail previously done, the miracles of our Saviour, end t h e belief which all Christians profess. This mode of defence the Court would not sutler him to p ro c e ed with, and without wishing to interfere with the discussions of learned men on particular points, it was forbidden to make a general attack on the Christian religion. In this case also conviction took place, and sentence was given against the De fendant. lie might serer to what had been done at a later period, when one Williams had had the bar (l;hood to send forth a pert of the same infamous and blasphemous publication which was the subject of the present prosecution. On that *cession, the De troilism was prosecuted by an advocate who had ever been distinguished among the friends of free discus. con and the liberty of the press. the ',resent Lord Erskine. lie. though lie adhered to all he had ever tittered in defence of those inestimable blessings, haz.l contended that punishment was called for in a rase where it was attempted to undermine those religious principles on which the present com fort if mankind, and the hopes of eternal happiness, were founded. Not that they could undermine the principles of thinking and educated men, but they were likely to have a baneful effect on the morals of those who were unenlightened. On that occa sioa, the Defendant was convicted, after an attempt to do that which he hoped would not be attempted this day, to defend the publication. in 1812, a ',emit) of the name of Eaton sent forth the very same book. lie was tried before the 'predecessor of the present Chief Justice; but was it held by the learned persons engaged on that occasion, that to revile the Christian religion was not contrary to the law of the land ? No such doctrine had ever obtain• ed there ; and succesisive J oriel and successive Courts had found successive Defendants guilty of a serious offence against the laws of their country. This had been so decided at s period when every thing connect ed with the liberty of the press and freedom of discus eion was most likely to be fully inquired into and sifted to the bottom. After stating this, he was cost ten: to leave it to the present Court and Jury, whe mer or riot such conduct at the present day was to be slowed tor an infraction of the law of the land. if it were admitted that the Christian religion *ere a part of the law of the land, it remained to be shewit, whether or not the Defendant bad violated that law, by publishing one of the most abominable, disgosb. isig, and wicked attacks on religion that had ever ap► petered in the world. The first *Mack had hero made on the Old Testament, as the writer knew, that throwing discredit ou that was the readiest way to. briag the New Testament into discredrt. The pa-sage to which, in the first inetatice, he would call their serious attention, was as follows : whenever we read the obocese stories. the voluptuous dettLuclactiea, the cruel aad lorturtms csecutinsm, the sure lent.rie vindietivewns, with which inure them half the Bible Is f fled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of s demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wicker:loess that has served to corrupt and brutalise mar lie would put it to the Jury. u fathers of fami ansious to teach their cbildreu to fear God, and hope for that eternal happiness so gloriously displayed by our holy religion, whit their feelings must be, if they found such a paper had been put into the hands of their offspring and domestics. -- ii they wanted a key to the osiud of the author, they would And it its the following panne DA the Wok called the Bible (for m - ei win the am 'metros's maiseer is which the smithy wort). cacti is purity or ideas sad , that are now extant is the world, I my rule of Ada se befog the word's cause what')—the poorldhes would, me brie' imposed epos; bet obeli greatest pars of this beide. scarcely of Me &Masi* vices,ard a collective a eararsaptible tales, 1 eaglet disbelieve Sag it by his aisle So that the writer would of religiose; Webster there being *Mit spur. The en to "Ti. die* . . lent in the heart of man. Speskiag for myself, . no other evidence that the Bible ig fibulas, than the laCti- Lee I mite make to believe it to be true, that apse would Dal iffilMieta dereitisrii thy choice." There Were ntiny either pairsiltes relating to the Old Testament, the essence of which might be summed up in a single hoe, in which the author declared— " It is a boric of hee, wicked dem, and blas ° phemy. This was the conclusion to *hick the author had arrived. Ile could not but asiticipsfeltl effect upon the Jury, and wished he could forbear, and, consis tently with his duty. abstain from the mill More shocking blasphemies against the New Testament, and against the name of our Samisens He could asiure the Jury. without affectation, that he felt the utmost pain in proceeding to this part of his duty. The blasphemous levity with which the author had treated the subject shucked him exceedingly, while, in the discharge of his ditty, he called the attention of the Jury to the following passage:— " As it is nothing extraordinary that a MO011• dumbd be with child before abe was married, and that the son she might bring forth slionl4l be executed, ewes unjustly, I see nu res. SIM for nut Inlieving that suds a woman as Mary, anal such a man as Joseph sad Jr,.. existed; their mere existence is a matter of indifference, about which there is so ground either to believe or to disbelieve, and which comes under dee com mon head of, It may be so, and • bat then? The proba b ility, however, is, that there were such oersons, Of at least such as resemirlerl them in pint of the circumstances, because almost all romantic stories have been suggested by some actual cir cumstances, as the adventures of RObi ODOR Crusoe, not a word of which is true, weir suggested by the case of Alexander Selkirk. It is not then the existence or non-existesiee of the persons that I trouble myself about. It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised t h ereon, against which I eonteed. The story, taking it as it is told, is itiespitessonsie obeceue; it gives an account of a young woman engaged to be mar ried, and while under this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost, under the impious pretence (Luke, chap. 1. ver. 35,) that the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee." Are we hying," asked the Attorney-General, "in n Christian age? Do we profess a religion at all ? Surely it might have beets expected that the most sceptical person, that the greatest infidel. would pause before he wrote such a paragraph. If it were possible,' he says---why then he admits it to be possible—l will use his own argument against him. The Defendant, and the writer of these passages, ought to have paused. When those shall occur to him an his last tnosnents--and reflec tion will then come—l will ask, with what feelings will lie reflect on the bare possibility, that that which he has so arraigned may be founded iu truth ? I believe in my conscience, that Paine himself and the present Defendant. in their calmer moments. could not but have some little doubt on the sub ject. Whet. then. must be the feelings of the De fendant at the close of Isis life, when he rentembers that he has been the menus of putting such publi cations into the hands of the young end the inex perienced, to dishonour that Deity whom we all profess to worship, and to whom we owe the mani fold blessings we enjoy ?" The next passage to which he besought the at tention of the Jury was no less blasphemous than those he had already quoted—it was as follows: " I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke,_ anal John, and rime it is considered that thwhole space of time, from the erueifixion to what is called the ascension, is but a few days, a pparently not more than three or four, and that all the cis. rionstances are reported to have happened nearly about the same spot, Jernsakm, It is, I believe, impossible mu God in soy story opus record, so many and suds glaring absurdi ties, euntradietiose, aad falsehoods, as are in those books. tut the case is, that people have bees, so long iu the habit of reading the books called the Bible sad Testament wish their eyes shut, and their senses locked up, that the must stupid inconsistencies have passed ea them fur truth, viol Imposition fur prophecy. The all-wise Creator bath been dishonoured by being made the author of fable, awl the hu. mai' mind degraded by believing it. I forbear (continued the author) making any remark on this abumisable imposition of Matthew, the thing 'Wriggly speaks fax iteelf; it is priests and commestmors that I rather ought to censure fur having litesebed falsehoods so long,lllll kept people iu dam knew, with respect to those impositioss. I am sot couteuding with these men upon polite of dodder, fur I know that sophistry hae always a city of refuge; I ate speaking of facts ; fax wher ever the thing tailed a fact is a falsehood, the faith founded upon it is delusiOu, and the ductrine raised upon it sot true. Ali resder, pat they trust in thy Creator, and thou wilt be safe, but if tbou trusteth to the book railed the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fable sal falsehood. I have now r eader, rose through sad examined all the passages whi ch fuer books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, sad Jobs, quote from the Old Testauteet sad call them prophecies of Jesus Christ. Wises bird l set do i wa to this examination, I expected to Sad targets , : some erasure, but little did I expect to Sod them so utterly destitute of truth, and of all peetessioew to it, as 1 have Mows them lo be ; the teractiee which the writer* of those books employ is mot more talae than it is abetted ; they state some trifling case et the person they call Jesus Christ, and then tut out a semewee from smile passage of the Old Testament sad gall it a pro phecy of that case. Vol when the words thee cut oat a le re restored to Ilse place they are takes from , sad nod with word. before an after them, they gin the lie to the New Testament." Otte would suppose that some little decorum, some little dec'eticy would be observed in the dis cussion of so sacred a subject—but no. the whole was treated as an imposture, a lie, a fable. lie did not think there was a man existing who would not say that this was a direct attack, couched in the coarsest terms. lln the Holy Scriptures and the re ligion which was professed in this country. The libel went on thus : ° These repeated (aeries and faldficatioss create a welblimaded suspicion that all the eases spokes of cos cerniag the versos called Jesus Christ. are malls o f en pogrom to log in, sad that very clumsily, gene Melees sesseetee trout the Old Tesesseek, and apply them am prophecies of those ewe, and that se far his Whig the Lou of (Ind, he did sot mild moo as • maw; that userely sb imagism Or airilefiell IreOIfOCUO, April% Henries, Jupiter, sod up the sititles 0(0814011p Thera Jerre 1. as a lint. Isito; but if be bid sisal so, thus welid the oniyfileawstaoces vospediwg bits that mead kakis , ed frelk *mamma act of wins, sail read liba . v. ease Mgt would apply exclusively to him as „, wow be suite passage in the Old Testa**, ,fistld eistb 'lilacs of him ; bust there is oat 6 plosigla In the ON Testanieit chat speaks of a perms who, after bring cruet. tied, deed and buried, should rise from the *A sod assusil fate Hearew. Vat prophecy-mongers the the Old Testatheet guards epos such ibintiv by t""Mr " of passages they call prophecies, end that falsely ; so shoat Joseph's *ape, old clothes, brokea been, hod such like trifling stuff* Ile now begged of the Jury to merit the manner in winch the opinions of the author were summed up : " Now (said he) Had the news of salvatiot by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, cha racters that all nations would have andetstood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours) howl all nations would have believed it. Whereas, though It is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, ant a twentieth part of the people of the earth blow any thing of it, and among those who do, the wirer part do net believe it. I have now, reader, gone through all the persages 'called prophecies of Jesus Christ, sad ,hewn there is no such tiring. I have examined the story told of Jesus Christ, and toilepared the several eircunistences of it, with that revelation, which, as Middleton wisely says 'God has made to us of his power isol wisdom by strum lure of the 'universe, had by which every thing ascribed to him is to be tried. The result is that the story of Christ bas not one trait, either in its character sir in the ntrests em ployed, that bears the least resemhtittcr to the power and wisdom of 'God, as demonstrated ill the creel' of the ititi•veree. All the meant are human means, slow, uncertain, and inedermate to the terornplislonsesit of the end proposed, and therefore the whale is a fabulous iseentien, and unite. serving of credit. 'The priests of the perwsit day profess to believe it, they gain their !irate by it, and they exclaim sgainst sotto-thing they call infidelity. I will ilrliwe ~rat it is : he that &diem in the story of Chri3t is as infrtel to G 04." Ile had now gone through the whole of the counts ; he would ask them, if he had not proved, rositining Christianity to he the law of the land, and that which was not to he reviled by word or writing, that the Defendant had offended the law lied he, or had lie riot reviled the Christiais relig This was the question on Mimi' they were called upon to de. tier. If they could put their hands on their bosoms, and way that he had trot done so, tlieh was the De fendant entitled to his acquittsl; but it they should he of a contrsry opinion, they could only discharge their duty to Goa sail to their country, by !lulling him guilty. This trial originated in no disposition to interfere with the opinions entertained unit of doors on various disputed points. Praise be to him who sent it ! notwithstanding such differences. the Chris. tiltsa religion has endured for ages, because it rested on the ruck of truth. which all the infidels of other times had assailed in vain. To use tl.e words of Mr. Locke, " the irligiun of the country had God for its author, salvation fur it. curl. and truth, without any mixture of error, fur its subject arid matter." This prosecution was not instituted for the purpose of oppressing ally particular indivi. dual ; but for the purpose of protecting the lower and illiterate classes of society from having their faith sapped, arid their init.4lo diverted from Ogre principles of morality, which were so powerfully inculcated by the Christian religion. %Viten such terrible productions as tho,e to which he hail referred were deliberately put into the hands of the ignorant—into the hands of those, who, unlike the rich and powerful, were tillable to draw distinctions between ingenious, but mtchievous argument., and divine truths—like trice us they bit. come familiar to their minds—all respect and verieras tion for religion and virtue would diminish—and consequences too painful to contemplate must accrue. There.was no itoent • to prosecute any men for his religious opinion., provided those opt. salmis were not promulgated in such a way as to produce positive mischief to the community at large. It was slot for hint to dictate to the Jury the path which they were to follow. Ile was address. iog twelve Gentlemen of education, sod of consi deration in life. He had stated to ilmni what he apprehended Was clearly the law on this subject, namely. that to ridicule Christianity was an offence at common law. That offence was impeted to the Defendant on the present indictment. The cps 4.f the country were upon their proceedings, arid their deliberations and detertnination were looked to with a painful anxiety. Much eat he loneent that, although a great length of time had elapsed slime the publication of tins libel, the subject bad not before been brought under their consideration. Unavoidable circumstances had prevented this step. No time, however, had been lost, and whatever de lays had taken place, were solely to he attributed to the forms of law, and to other occurrences which were not within his control. Ile repeated that the eyes of the country were upon them—all the reli gious--all the moral—all the thinking part of mankind were waiting anxious) y the decision on this case. It was to be decided by them (the Jury'), whether Christianity was 3 fabulous imposture, rod whether they were to cont . under that religious part of the system of their Constitution, to which they had heretofore looked with cordidetice and veneration. If the Defendant had committed an offence, and that he had, in his ratimatiou, no mats alive could entettain • doubt, after hearing the prom segos which be had read, he was sure h► used scot call upon thee' ter be km in the conorlienticiii charge of their ditty. If they believed that the Dr. fendaut had offended against the laws of God and the country, they Would, without the slightest heel. titian. give a verdict to that effect. It poly reustined for him to prove' the case which he had stated.— This he would do very shortly, by proving the sale of the book by the Defendant ; and unless they hod made up their minds to treat as nothing the solemn obligation of the oath which they had taken, and to consider Christianity as • fable, and as a gross imposition, he was satisfied, upon the facts, that the only verdict which they could return sit this ocersioo was that of The So LICHIIII-Gllll SSA L now called Mr. Grilfiu Solomon, who, on being swan, depoled that he was Clerk to the Solicitors of the Treasury. of Decelebtr he went to the honey of folly. Yee ''Osied b ma if I did not want half a dozen copieti f The Cutts ilfirytes now said, that at the De fendant wished the information to be read, the canals, and the piessages in the book to which they referred, hadtetter now be read to the Jury. The information was then read by Mr. Bellamy, the officer of egerourt, Mr. Carlile admitting that the passages in the book corresponded with the passage, set forthAn the ififormatioo, and adding, that it was vonnicemary to read the portages twice over, as he eboard kid the book himself as part of his defence. TheiO(ormation is as follows : The First Cosset 'clierged, that Richard Carlile late of L o ndon, bookiieller,*ging a wicked,iospioes,oodili:dispowd peewit, Ae. did, on tbit Ittli December, in the Nth year of the reign of our present Sovereign Lord George the Third, Ac. print era poblisk, sad caused to be printed and pub lished, a negate scandalous, impious, and blasphemous libel, of and eoriceresinfudial part of the Holy Bible, which is alined the Old Testament, contenting therein, amongst other things, divers scandalous, impious, aud blasphemous ma tters, of and cukeening that part of the Holy Bible which I. called the Old Teatimes', Rewriting in the tenor and effect following th at is to say), " Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous ilehaucheries, the cruel and torturous execitiens, the unrelentiog vindictiveness with which more than half 'the Bible" (steaming that part of the Holy Bible which is Wiled the Old Testament) " is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it (meshing that part of the Holy Bible which is called the 01.1 Testament), " the word of a dentgoi, than the word of Get h It" (mean ing that part of the Belly Bible which is called the Ohl Tes tament) " is a history of wickedness that has served to me mo and brutalise Maiskiud :"—to the great displeasure of Almighty God, to the greet scandal, infamy, and cootempt of the said part of the Huly Bible which is called the Old Miaowed, to the lull example ..f all others, and agaiwat the peace Or our said Lord the King, his Crown and dignity. The Second and other Counts charged the p u blication of the several libels Whirls they respectively set forth, in similar terms. " Did the book called the Bible" (meaning that part of the Holy Bible which is called the Old Testament) • wed ill purity of ideas and expression, all the hooks that We now extant hill** world, I would not take it fur my rule of faith as Leine the word of God, because the poseibility 'MOW, nevertheless, exist of my being imposed upon ; but when t see, throughout the greatest part of this hook" Owe g that part of the Holy Bible which is called the 0141 Tlestament) "'carrel, any thing but a history of the grossest ekes, and a collection of the most ualtry and contemptible Isles, I cannot dishonour my Creator by rallisg it by his mete" (meaning and inteediug thereby, that throughout the greatest port of that part of the Holy Bible which is willed the Old Testaineot, there is scarcely any thing but a history of the grossest 111111 a collection of paltry and contemptible tales.) Third Count=" To charge the commission of acts upon the Almighty, which, in their own nature, and by every rule eff Nora justice, are triodes, as all assaesination is, and more eepellially the assassination of Wields, is matter of serious pears. The Bible tells is that those assassinations were ems by the express command of God—to believe, therefore, the Bible to be tree, we meat imbelieve all Our belief in the moral justice of dud, for wherein could cryiug or 'lndia( infants offend? Aed to read the Bible without horror, we must undo every thing that is Wieder, sympsithising, and benevolent in the heart of ono. Speakiog for myself, if I (meaning the writer of the aforesaid libel) had no other evidence that the Bible is fabulous than the sacrifice (meaning the writer of the said libel) mast make to belie ye it to be true, that slow would be sufficient to determine my choice." Anil in another past thereof aceordiog to the tenor and effect following (that is to say), " 1 have now gone through the examinatlee of the four hooks ascribed to Matthew, Math, Luke, and John" (meaning the four Holy Gospels, in that part of the Holy Bible which is called the New Testament) ; " and when it is considered that the whole space of time from the crwifixiou" (meaning the cru eilxicia of our blessed theriwir and Redeemer, Jesus Chris.), " to what is called the Aweission, is but a few days, appa wetly out snore them three oefoor, mid that all the circum stances are reported to have happened nearly about the same spot, JefOlolelll, it is, I believe, impossible ti, find in any story Open record so essay and such tiering absurdities, cootradietions, and (alleluias& as are in those books." Fourth Coisat—a It" (swimming that part of the Bible which is eallea the Old Testament) "is a book of lies, wick ednees, and blasphemy." Fifth Comet—" As it is *tithing estraordinary that a wo man should he with child before she was marrira, and that the sun she might being forth should be executed, even un justly, 1 see no reason for not believing that such a woman as Mary" (wiesming the Blesses) Virgin Mary), " and such a man as Joseph sod Jews" (roes ll ill g our Saviour Jesus Christ) "existed; their mere existence is • matter of iudJ keener, about whiehilsere is no grogind either to believe or to disbelieve, and which comes Nader the comiraon head of, It may be so, and what them? The probability, however, is, that there were such persons, or at least such as resembled them in part of the circumstances, becanse almost all ro mantic stories have been suggested by some actual circum @tonere, a. the aaveniures of Robinson Crowe, Not a word of *Lich is true, were snggested by the case of Alexander Selkirk. It is not then the existence or non-existence of the persons that I trouble myself about, it is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and vi sionary doctrine weld thereon, against which I contesol. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously 'doctor ; it gives so accusal of a young woman 'sugared to be mar ried, zed while moiler this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost, under the immune pre tetwe (Luke, chap i. vet. 35.) that the Holy Ghost shall came upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall tr. r 'Widow thee." Sixth Count- 5 What le it the Testament" (niemeing that part 44 the Holy Bible which is called the New Testament) "teaches us? Ti. believe that the Almighty rommitted de hanchery with a woman engaged Ito he married! and the be lief of this delsoudiery is called faith." Seventh Count—" Bed the case is, that people have been eo hung in the habit 44 twain the books called the Bible" ( os essiug that part o f the Holy H.hie called the Old T. eta. meat) "and Testament" (meaning that part of the Bible calks, the New Testament) " with their eyes sliest, and their steers locked up, that the most stupid inconsistencies have pared on them for truth, and imp:idiots for prophecy. The all-wise Ciente" bath bees dldisionerrel by helog made Hie author of fable, soil the human mind degraded by believing it." Anal la member part thereof, IlefiWaillt 10 the tenor and effect following (that Is to say), " l forbear making any renuok OM this *blowiest& insmoitior of Matthew" (mean. beg the Holy Evroagelist Saint Matthew), "the Haag &wine. ly speaks fur Rolf; it is priests mad irmismeatators that I ruttier ought to enisisre fur having preached falrehond so long, sod kept people its darker's with respect to those ia positions. lam ore eoutending with theme men upon points of auctritie, fur I kisow that sophistry has tawny, a city of refuge; I am speaking of facts; for silierwer the thing called • fees is a faleishood, the faith fosoiled upon it is &legion, and the &retries wilted opus it out true. Ali! reader, put thy tried is thy Creator and then wilt be rate, but if thous treistest le a book called the Seriph...se" (Nwsiiing the Holy Seriptines) this* Westeet to the rotten stuff of table sad falsidsood." And in smother part thereof, according to the Wier awl erect fonowlog (that is to say). "I have now, wa der, tow theinegh sod examined all the passages which the flier banks . of Matthew, Mark, Luke, mod Joke" (nweisisig the four Holy Gospels) "emote floes the Ohl Treasured mid call them prupberies of Jesus Christ. —WWII Stet I set &two es Ibis ixassiisuition, I ex pected to Sod mese for swot weenie, bat little did I egret to lea tarit'so uttevly *mime 4.t truth, sad of all presrasians se. is, as 1 have slaws them to be; the reedit Odell the weltered, those books emipluy is nut more Moe thaigit is ahead; Hey slew some trifling maga the poem NOP call Mee IllariA; lea the. eel eat • OPUIVOtt free we power of diriViesimwat, aid call it a periphery of Net cafe. lot Ales tbittehli* oboe ow eel We weliervil MilltilAwe glop we' meat &Ws, awl wed witli.tbe seeds boleti aid allot di* Nei gilt, the sir to do : N 441/ T. de swot ; affiliet hisffihiale ofNisi of this will seam few the whole." Anti is somber past Wirer, actiartling to the . te\wr and effect following (that is to say). " The., repeated forgeries and falsilicatioas create a well.foansied that all the cases spokes of concerning the person rallt.l Jesus (-UM, are made mars es porpoise to lug In, and that •ery clumsily, some broken matrices from the Old Testa. went, and apply them as prophecies of those cues, ant th.tt so far from his bring the Soo of God, he did nut esi.t nrn imaginary or alb-eeriest cha. si a n neter, a ws " ; A t pu ha l t io be , HiinNwrelY " etsles,Jopiter, mid all the Ordinal antiquity were. There is no history written at tie time Jesus Christ is said to have lived, that speaks of the exist mace of such a person, even as • sehn. Did we fine in any other honk, pretending to give a system of religion, the false hoods, finsifientioas, cositradietlems, and absurnotes sleek are to be met with in almost every page of the OH and New Testament, all the plicate of the present day who 'opposed themselves capable, would triumphantly slew their .hint cg it icison, and cry it down as a most &rig' ; shin the books in question betas, to their own teat', , Ti d (mien, they, or at least sassy of thews, seek to sidle every inquiry into them, and abase theme who have the homily and the courage so du it." And Is another part thereof, lc. cording to the tenor and efeet follo w i s e ;that is to sa y s " Thry tell us that Jest's rose from the dead and ass. m e g; easily iotli t e o a l t d " ; ti ; i ta t O v e r r Tom e" ; y ba t t o il m tlle s° 6l4 . a t ir lol7e t 1 : e 4 .::. would have been the only circumstances resp loins not that would have differed from the commas act of man, and con sequenely the only case that wools, apply excls.,vely to 1,,11) as prophecy, would be nue perentte in the Ohl Testament that foretold such thine of Men; bet there is nisi a passage in the Old Testament slot woks of. person, eho, after he. ing crucified, dead sad keiried,abeeld rise from the dead and toned into H . Owe rimier, nossegers 'apply th e „. tenor; the Old Testavorgt guards ape each tbiuxs, by tell ing us of passages they ea romisiteks, Well that falsely, so *boat Joseph's dreams Old dollop, betoken hoots, awl sseh like trifling stuff." Ass., in aaaabev part thereof, areordi eg to the tenor sod direct following (dot is to say), " Now lad the news of relvattuag by Jesus Christ been inscribed oo the fare of the sem and MIMS its elleinieiters that all satins, would hove lerstood, the whole north had ku o rt, i t „, twenty-foige !whey, awl all mations would have hoteven it. Wherries, though it is now almost two NWonitu l n eats since, as they tell sw, Christ raise spin earth, SO 3 lan,. tieth part of the people of the earth boor any dials of tt, and among thole who do, the wisest part do not belteve.t. I here now, reader, gone throagh all the passages cai:ed pro phecies of Jesus Christ, and shewn there is Hu such Oldie. I have examined the story told ofJesus Christ and rompired the several circumstances of it, with that revelation, shah, Millnlek% wisely says, God has made to as of her pewee and wisdom in the structure of the universe, 3iiri by which every thing ascribe.' to him is to he tried. 'I he n'ssit I. that the story of Christ has stet one trait, title, :II : It chs racler or in the means employed, that heals the lead resem blauce to the power and wisdom of 604,as drigenteketen in the crest' of the universe. All !Ilse menus ale humus slow, emerge:the, and Wadeqoate In the atcomplidt. agent of the end proposed, and therefore the wt.:et. a Cabo loos invention, awl iingleservigee of credit. The pietas of the present day prof. ss to believe it, they gaits their living hy it, and they exclaim against something they call intigleldv. I will define what it is be that believes its the story of Christ is an in11:14-1 to God." Eighth Count—" These rerouted forgeries and Wink". tions create& well.futosdedsuspieiun that all liu casts , puks of concerning the penises tatted Jesus Chinn, are In ,de CRP, on purpose to lug in, and that very elunisity, some broken sentences from the Old Testament', and apply thens as pre phecies of those cases, sad that SO far ft ton his Iseiug the Sou of Gun, he did nut exist even as a man; that be is erserely an imagnary or allegorical character, as Apollo„ Hercules, Jupiter, and all the &his a of obliquity wee. There is nu history written at the time of Jeans (heist is said to have lived that speaks of the existence of such • me son, even as a man. Dist we lad in any other book, pre leading to give a system of religios e the falsehoods, falsifi cations, contradictions, sad absurdities which are to be net with in almost every page Of Old asks, New Testansest, all the priests of the present day who supposed themselves capable, would toionspleautly skew their skill In mod cry it down as a most glaring imposition; but siwee the books in question heloug to their own trade mill profession, they, or at least many of them, seek to stifle every inquiry into Shan, md abuse those alma have the honesty and the courage to do it." Niuth Count- 1 s Now bad the sews of salvation by kiss ('hoist Men inseriliesl en the fare of the sun an d ?noun , i a characters that all nations would have anglersioun, the whole earth had known it in twenty four hums, a nd all maiNuns would have believed it; whereat., though is is now alma's two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ raise upon earth, nut a twentieth part of the people of the rattle know any thing of it, anal stooge those who do, the wiser part do nut ha. lieve it. have sus', reader, gone through all ibn passages miles' prophecies' of Jesus Christ, and sleeves there is no smelt thing. I have examined the story told of Jesus Christ, and competel the several circumstance" of it with that revelation, which, as Miglilletwe aisrly says, God has made to us of his power aad wisdom in the IlieUettlfla the universe, awl by which every thing au-lilted to him is Is be tried. The resole is, that the story of Christ bas .101 MK trait, either iss its eleararter or in the Willi engin.) psi, that bears the hut reseniblassre to the pow. r and wisdoms( God as demonstrated in the ensilages of ,he ituivestse. du the means are human means, slow, uncertain, ard ithn quite to the a cc o mplishaseat of the CIO 111141011440 111 i far the whole is a fabulous isivration awl nude lerstnes l credit. The priests of the . perseot day profess to Wiese it, they gain their living by it, and they exclaim splint some thing they call ialidelity. I will defuse what it is be that believes in the story of Mist is as isefidel to God." Tenth Count—" Fur my owe part, 1 du nut believe there is one sword of histories) truth in the whole book" (messild that pall of the Holy Scripture' called the New T. Miaow . busk upon it at best to be a rossanee,thc principal t iresome of "latch is ass imaginary or allegorical eliaracier found." upon wine tale, and in which the moral is in in say pea good, awl the garratise part very badly and blonde:rag:l written." El. vend Count—" But the case is, that people have so lung in the habit of reading the hooks called the Bile and Testament with their ryes shut, and their KURE, I" IJ up, that the most stupid inconsistesicieshsve passed Oita' ler tied), awl inapositime foe prophecy. The all-wise Cow halls been dishonoured by being wash' the author of ' aunt the Inienau mind 'trended by Is Irving it." soother part thereof, areorditig to ike I, our awl • hosing (that is to say), " As to the New Testament" tag that part of the oly Seriptheres called the Net went). "If it be bronght and tried by that standard, as WWI. low wisely says, God has r evealed to his olnsighty power sad wisdom in the creatiuu t. meld of the visible universe, it w ill he &dud I% false, paltry, and absurd as the Old" Oneaoing that the Holy Scriptures celled the (Ile, Testainent)- -- to ti etiolate/tsar'. of Almighty God, to the great scandal of Christian reheats', to the evil example of all others. against the peace of nor said lord the King, his C r own dignity. Whereupon the said Attorney II:moral of ot Lord the king, who for our Said 1.0111 Ike King in she half proorcideth few our said Lord the King, pr a d end romideestion of she Court Isere in the premises, an due process of law may hr awarded ragaieist him II Richard Carlik in thus behalf, to make hint aninstil said Lord the King, touching and cuaccruiug tie r., aforesaid. The case for the prosecution having been t j Mr. (.7arlile these ruse to sooke his i• Gentlemen of the Jury-1 now rise to . defence agents , the charge exhibited egaiskit Cs the Attorney-General, end believe moo ontisreesest with the guest importance of Li Of deep importance. indeed, it is) for it is no a question, than to try. whethes • mini may. 1 4 Its toles sted in indulging v. butever creed Or Moos be pleases its trltgiogr agisits. I'he I General has boasted nail, et she Libra; of and of free discussion ; hilt Ide not InS t hats evinced isgeu of this q4(4t of liberality Proiol occus‘ost, it is lay, desire. *berets/see ; tlt men, to go into this gale mime filly that! bi t .. .Lich in 1 • own titan!, rrhil 'ldea liktiskjos. tiM, ore eri as all as sassisoll . rphis,sted ilipie eilpeeislly the saishibtmst •or iatihiti, if afe elf iiriots aseseern.— ThE Bible' lefts' ai AIM Weil stesteistinßi here &we by the emirs* corsimsmitet Cesug-to e, tberihwe, the Bible to be true, we flied uiatiit 4 e AB our belief in the smut 1 jumice of Clod, for Wherein could 'nisi! or smiling infants offend' And to read the Bilge without horror, _me must mute titly tug tut W thilkt, opicismainag, ai d bt•eid: • _ ...___. ..... .... Soeshisr fur 'myself, if .1 hid r t r.iodis poke of *bat smell APO* lionsky, JeNsge• mu .."." ---- 7 --- --.---. a■d expesse, all dm books 14 . 1 e. Milll tt as WAlowl - writ"' at the Mae Jr... 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