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1817 Aug. 27.

Not Paul

§. 1. Apostle. 1. ex in[?] terminis[?] an emissary viz. of Jesus

2. the only other persons so stiled (except as below) constant selected companions and confidants of Jesus.

§. 2. Paul no associate of the eleven as Matthias

§. 3. Sole alleged ground of his claim his story of his conversion: - this disbelieved by the Apostles

§. 4. According to his own account Jesus gave him no information as to his acts and sayings

§. 5. None of his Epistles contain any reference to them.

He himself disclaims his having received the Apostleship from men[?]: from any person but Jesus. Gal. I.

§. 6. He claims a revelation such as put him upon a level with the chiefest of the Apostles: which revelation he […?] to have had […?] every […?]

§. 7. His title to the Apostleship rests upon his own shewing solely on his evidence /He claims not power of working miracles in all his Epistles or speeches […?]/ on the evidence of a vision in which he hears a voice which he says is Jesus’s but in which he owns he did not see Jesus

 Add Acts account taken from him

The Apostles received from Jesus the power of working miracles: to their having done so, Paul himself does not pretend.  See this in the other Sheets.
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    §. 1. Paul no such emissary of Jesus, as the Apostles were. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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    I. He set up his own authority against that of the Apostles collectively

    II. and severally

    III. Never for his support did he refer to their authority

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    Ch. 1 Paul no Apostle

    The specific miracles produced by Acts[?] were of course the best that could be trumped up.

    To be equal to the chiefest of them, this is what he claims. Yet even taking for true the most favourable of all his discordant accounts of revelations received by him discordant as they are, on what ground, consistently with the Gospel history can his pretension to any equality be maintained. By Jesus, just before his ascension, by Jesus according to Mark, to all his Apostles was the power of working miracles conferred: miracles of divers sorts therein mentioned: a casting out devils, speaking with new tongues, taking up serpents understood without receiving harm, drinking poison in like manner without harm: and healing sickness. Look at the Acts, of some of those powers the exercise is indeed though in a way that will come to be considered in its place, ascribed to Paul to him whose pretence it was to be the chiefest among all those to whom those powers were imparted. But look to Paul himself, amongst all his boastings no such boasting as that of his being possessed of any such powers shall we, on any occasion find him venturing to make: he whose claim to the having received a special revelation cryingly in need of support from every imaginable quarter he whose claim stood on no broader nor firmer ground than that of a vision pretended to have been seen by himself.

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    ‘Signs and wonders’ then in the plural and in the lump, on one single occasion we shall indeed, according to the author of the Acts find him speaking of himself as having done. But in the history of the Acts doing signs and wonders what shall we find it amount to? b Making such progress as was regarded as extraordinary or so said to be: making extraordinary progress this and nothing more.

    by him who is said to have made it it was meant to cause others to look upon as extraordinary:

    b Infrà Ch.