The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![That Hiftory, well examined, is certainly attended with Circumftances uncommon, and very furprifing, and, on the other Side, the Opinions of Divines are fo odd, and An¬ gular, and fo contradidory to one another, and fometimes to themfelves, that the Diffi¬ culties are rather increafed, than removed by their Commentaries. I confefs, that it feems, at firft View, to be a Cafe of very little or no Importance, to know what fort of Wrejiling this was, and who were the Combatants; but Alice Inter¬ preters have attempted to build upon that fandy Foundation certain Notions, which are very difhonourable to the Nature of an In¬ finite Being, I think ’tis the Duty of every one, who has any Love or Reipedt for his Maker, to oppofe fuch a fcandalousPrac¬ tice, to the utmoft of his Capacity. I hope then that no body can find it amifs, if I venture to give an Explanation of fuch an extraordinary Adventure, more eafy, and rational, and better grounded than any that has yet been offered. The Method I follow is this. 1. To fet down, in their full Strength, the feveral Interpretations that I have heard of, and to fliew their Nullity. 2. I deliver my Conjectures, and the Rea- fons they are grounded upon. 3. And, laftly, Ill anfwer all the Objec¬ tions that can be made againft me. B 2 ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
