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Title: [10 Nov r 1815 Not Paul —First loose]

Description: 10 Nov r 1815

Not Paul —First loose Extracts

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Gal. I. 19. ‘James the Lord’s Brother stiled an Apostle.

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Comes all that from him. This the whole purport of the Chapter especially v. ib. 12.

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Gal. II. 10. Peter &c it appears stipulated that Paul should give them part of his profit ‘Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

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James Peter and Barnabas in eating &c with the Gentiles ‘walked not uprightly’: i.e. after the agreement made, they robbed him of his customers Gal. II, 11 to 14

That seems to be the grievance, throughout the whole Chapter, and for this he vituperates the Galatians.

N.B. It seems as if Peter and his set to get these Galatians for their persuaded them that they ought to conform to the Mosaic law.

Though of the particulars a great part are mere nonsense, yet the general drift seems plainly enough visible.

Gal V. 3.

Peter &c urged them to be circumcised that they might belong to him: thus says Paul if you are you are bound to the whole law.

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Gal. V. 19 to 26. Works of the flesh: do of the Spirit. Same topic Coloss. III. See also I. Tim. I. 9 to 11. II Tim III. 2. to 7. Tit. II to III. 3. Gal. VI. 6. 10. Hints to

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contribute.

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Eph. IV. 9. His ascension ‘proves the he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth’: i.e. upon earth which is lower than heaven. In this may have been the origin of the ‘He descends into Hell’.

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Eph. IV. 17 to 31 (the end) V 1 to 33 XI 1 to 18 the precepts.

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VI 21. 22 He sends Tychicus (the writer) that ye may know my affairs and how I do &c. i.e Tychicus was to make the case for getting from them what was to be got.

N.B. Note the of Scribes he was able to keep.

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Seeing that the comparison must be suffered the worst they need to fear many set up against him to preach Christ on their own account. For then himself in in Phil. V. 13 to 18.

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He now sends to the Philippians Phil. V. 19 to 30 his trusty agent Timotheus and was for sending Epaphroditus ‘Your Messenger and he that ministered unto my wants’.

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Great abuse of persons not named, but manifestly well known to those to whom he was writing: They were of course of his Phil. III. 2.

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Multitude of his Agents and Subordinates Phil. I. 1 IV. 3.

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Thanks for pecuniary supplies: i.e. to get more another time. This the manifest and sole object of the whole Epistle Phil. IV. 10 to 19. From this it appears that he had contributions as far as he could from all the Christians.

List Coloss III

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Thess. II. 5. 6. 9. 10. Boasts of disinterestedness.

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Forbids fornication IV. 3 to 7.

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Prophecy unfulfilled.

‘We which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them (the dead in Christ above spoken of) to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.’ Thess. IV. 17.

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I charge you by the Lord that this Epistle be read unto all the holy brethren II. Thess. v. 27.

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as elsewhere of those who are for or these converts the law of Moses. I. Tim. 1. 6 to 11

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Hymenaeus and Alexander— I have delivered over to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme: I. Tim I. 20

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He was a blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious: I. Tim. I. 13. See Tit. III. 3

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Bishops and deacons The already established distinct Orders 5. Timothy III. They should be husbands of one wife.

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Forbidding to marry are doctrines of devils 4 Tim 1. to 4. N.B. This shews how proselytism might be promoted by asceticism.

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Evidence— Against an elder (πρεσβυτερος — whence priest) receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

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Exhort the rich not to trust in riches but to be ready to distribute —to communicate &c. I. Tim. VI. 17 to 19.

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‘All they which were in Asia be turned from me … II. Tim. I — 15. IV. 10. Onesiphorus … oft refreshed me &c.

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‘Some have erred, saying the resurrection is past already.’ II. Tim. II. 18.

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Bishops and Elders the same. Tit. 1. 5 to 9.

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Give not heed to Jewish fables Tit. I. 14

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1817 Oct. 25

Ch. Miracles Quasi, Visions

1. Miraculous account false

III or Verbal or else Miracles

17 Acts XXVII. 22. 25. Copy these four verses (Comforting Angel on shipboard.

II. Inferential quasi miracles Acts XXVII. 34. Wherefore pray you &c not a hair shall fall &c

IV. Miracles unparticularized continued

6 Acts XIX. 6. 7. And when Paul had laid (his) hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues and prophecied. (v. 7) And all the men were about twelve.

6. Acts XIX. 11. 12. And God wrought special miracles by the hand of Paul: so that from his body &c. Copy the verse.

Miraculous accounts false

16. Acts XXII 17 to 21.

Trance in Jerusalem temple Copy v. 17 to 21

14. Acts XVIII 9. 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. Be not afraid &c. Copy 9 and 10.

15. Acts XIX 13 to 20. Exorcists bedeviled. Magic books burnt by the owners. Copy verses 13 to 20.

III continued. Quasi Miracles inferential

17. Acts XX. 23. Save that the holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying &c.

16. Acts XX 22. And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem.

15. Acts XIX 21. Paul purposed in the Spirit … to go to Jerusalem. Copy the Verse.

14. Acts XIX. 6. 7. And when Paul had laid (his) hands upon them, the Holy Ghost come on them, and they spake with tongues and prophecied. And all the men were about twelve.

13. Acts XVIII. 5. Paul was ‘pressed in Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.’

12. Acts XVI. 26. to 34. ‘And suddenly there was a great earthquake &c. (Paul and Silas liberated.)

11. Acts XVI. 7. ‘They’ (Paul and Timotheus assayed to go to Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not

10 Acts XVI. 6 They (Paul and Timotheus were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.’

9. Acts XII. 23. And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him (Herod) &c. Copy the verses

Miraculous accounts false

5. Paul’s Vision Acts IX 1 to 9.

6. Ananias’s Vision Acts IX. 10 to 16.

7. Paul’s vision as reported by the Lord to Ananias in his vision Acts IX. 12.

8. Scales that fell from Paul’s eyes Acts IX. 18. ‘And immediately &c. Copy the verse.

9. Tabitha resuscitated by Peter Acts IX. 36. to 42.

10. Peter’s Vision at Joppa Acts X. 9 to 16. XI. 4. to 10.

11. Lystra Cripple cured by Paul Acts XIV. 8. 9. 10.

12. Acts XVI. 9. 10. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night Copy verses 9 and 10.

13. Acts XVI. 18. Paul being grieved turned and said to the Spirit (of divination v. 16) I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out of her the same hour.

6. At Lydda paralytic Æneas cured by Peter IX. 34. 35.

7. Cornelius’s Vision at Cæsarea Acts X. 3 to 7. XI. 13.

8. Acts X. 19. 20. While Peter thought on the vision, the spirit said to him &c.

3. Acts VIII. 26. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying &c. Copy the verse.

4. Acts VIII. 29. ‘Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near’ &c

5. Acts VIII. 39 … the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip that the Eunuch saw him no more … 40 But Philip was found at Azotus.

6. Acts XI 12. ‘And the Spirit bade me (Peter) ‘go with them nothing doubting.’

7. Acts XI. 28 … Agabus … signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth &c.

8. Acts XII. 7. 8. 9. The Angel of the Lord came upon him (Peter) and &c. Copy the verses.

Quasi Miracles inferential /[…?]/ Acts XXVIII. Copy from 3 to 6. And when Paul &c.

Quasi Miracles verbal

Acts XXVIII Copy from 7 to 10. Publius’s father cured or doctored: also others nameless

8. [Greek] 9. [Greek]

1. Miraculous account false

2 Peter’s resuscitation of Tabitha

Acts IX 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

3.[?] Peter and John’s cure of the temple cripple Acts III 1 to 11. IV. 9. 13. 14. 22.

4. Stephen’s vision Acts VII 55.

II. Quasi Miraculous accounts: quasi miracles inferential or by inference

1. Cloven tongues Acts II 1 to 13: or […?]

2. Paralytic Æneas cured by Peter Acts IX. 33. 34.

3. Acts IV 31. the place was shaken where they (the Apostles) were assembled together; and they were all filled with the holy Ghost &c

4. Ananias and Sapphira’s death Acts V. 1 to 11

5. v. 15. ‘They brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches that at the least, the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.’

6. Acts XX 7 to 12 Eutychus raised up. Copy v. 7 to 12.

III. Quasi-Miraculous accounts or Quasi Miracles made by double entendre: alias verbal miracles

I Acts V. 19. The angel of the Lord by night opened the prison-doors, and brought them forth.

2. Acts VI. 15. And all that sat in the Council looking stedfastly at him (Stephen) saw his face as if it had been the face of an Angel.

IV. Miracles unparticularized

1. Acts II 43 ‘Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.

2. Acts V. 12. And by the hand of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people.

3. Acts VIII. 6. 7. 13. Philip’s

4. Simon Magus’s Acts VIII 10. 11.

5. Acts XV. 12 ‘Then all the multitude … gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.’

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Title: [1817 Aug 11 Not P. Titles of Chapters]

Description: 1817 Aug 11

Not P. Titles of Chapters in proposed Order. Superseded 17 March 1818.

N.B. The Nos refer to the list of 90 topics methodized on 3 Sheets of four-column Paper

Introduction

Ch. 1

Ch. 1. Paul how far an Apostle or

Paul improperly stiled an Apostle. 64 65.

Ch. 2

Ch. 2 Short History of Paul and his Apostleship.

Ch. 3.

Ch. 3. Paul’s Character

Disposition manifested by him, and reputation borne by him, antecedently to his alledged conversion

Ch. 4.

Ch. 4. Paul’s Motives

Profit in various shapes looked to and reaped from the occupation assumed by him. 19. 29 30. 15. 16. 68. 1. 2. 75 56. 60. 63. Paul’s Character passages 74. 57. Paul's Privileges claimed or exercised by him 32. 28

Ch. 5

Ch. 5 Nature of the Evidence on which the History of Paul’s Conversion is grounded. His Visions and Trances, as reported by himself. 62

Ch. 6

Ch. 6. Paul’s Conversion — Different accounts given of it by himself at different times, and by the Author of the Acts of the Apostles.

Ch. 7

Ch. 7. Paul’s Miracles. Examination of the supposed supernatural effects supposed to have been produced by Paul. 24

1818 21 Feb.

Title for Advertising?

Not Paul but Jesus: containing a serious enquiry into the recognition supposed to be made by the Apostles of Paul in the character of a fellow-Apostle, and the consequent genuineness of the additions made to the religion of Jesus: also to the opinions by which the History of the Acts of Apostles is ascribed to Saint Luke.

Ch. 8

Ch. 8 Paul’s Style

Unfitness of Paul’s Discourses to serve as a standard of[religious] belief shewn from the imperfections in his style: viz.

1. Its obscurity

2. Its unmeaningness or nonsensicality 8. 27. 83 81. 82. 55

3.Its figurativeness

§. 1 of the

§. 1. Style proper for the purpose, what.

§. 2. Paul’s aberrations from the proper standard: viz. by obscurity. 2. &c.

Ch. 9

Ch. 9. Paul’s Doctrine— its inconsistency with genuine useful morality, and with the religion of Jesus.

§. 1. Under the head of the contrast between Faith and Works — under Faith versus Works & his jealous hostility to Judaism. 2. to Paganism 1.

§. 2. His hostility to Paganism 2. 58

§. 3. His notions as to Predestination. 12.

§. 4. His notions as to Jesus 14. 70. 72. 49. 76. 89. 88. 43. 13.

Ch. Mischievous Doctrines deduced from Paul, but unwarrantably.

Ch. History stiled the Acts of the Apostles. Reasons for questioning the verity of it.

This after his Miracles and Visions.

Chapters or Sections to be added 11 Aug 1817.

Ch. 3* Paul’s Character and temper as displayed in vituperation addressed or applied to 1. Enemies 2. Revels. 3 Disciples 4. Two or more of the above indiscriminately. 1.

Contrast it with that of the other Apostles as per their Epistles viz. Peter, James, John, Jude.

Ch.

Paul’s first Visit to Jerusalem

Paul’s 2 do

Paul’s 3 do

Paul’s 4 do

Peter’s atchievements and adventures.

Interval between Paul’s 2 & 3 Visits: Paul and Barnabas their exploits. Visions by others as reported in Acts. Reason to be assigned for attaching the credibility of the Acts though at the hazard of that of the whole history of Jesus — clearing his doctrine from the unwarrantably added asceticism.

Credit to be given throughout to this as to any history saving exception to such articles in respect of which particular reason appears to the contrary.

Paul’s Visits to Jerusalem

Peter’s Atchievements & Adventures

Acts of the Apostles. Reasons for regarding it as partly true, partly false.

14. Lord Lyttleton, Defence of Paul examined. Ch.

15. Paley’s Defence of Paul examined.

12. Paul’s Doctrine: its repugnancy the discrepancy to with that of Jesus.

Ch.

13. Paul’s Doctrine: its pernicious influence with relation in respect to temporal felicity and good morals.

Ch.

Positions

1 Paul’s title to the appellation as Apostle: it is upon his own shewing groundless. Ch.

2 Paul’s Character. On his own shewing was not such as to warrant confidence: as to 1 Philanthropy. 2. Veracity. Ch. 3.

3. Paul’s Motives— Without special call from God motives merely worldly were sufficient to account for his conduct Ch. 4

4. Evidence on which his claim to such special call rests, a set of Visions. Insufficiency of such evidence. Ch. 5.

5. Paul’s Conversion. Inconsistency as well as incredibility of the relation given of it. Ch. 6.

6. Paul’s supposed Miracles: by the accounts given of them no addition is made to his trustworthiness.

7. Acts of the Apostles trustworthiness of the Narrator thus intituled questionable in itself: irreconcileable with the Gospel History.

8. Aspect of the Apostles towards Paul: by them from first to last he is regarded as an impostor.

Ch.

9. Paul’s temper. Its badness when compared with that of the Apostles.

Ch.

10. Paul’s Style: presumption of insincerity afforded by it.

Ch.

11. Paul’s Success: no proof or presumption of his claim to the Apostleship afforded by it.