THE

Theological and Miscellaneous

WORKS

OF

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, LL. D. F.R.S. &c.

WITH

NOTES, BY THE EDITOR.

VOLUME XVIII.

Containing

DEFENCES

OF

the histoRY OF THE CORRUPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY,

IN REPLY TO DR. HORSLEY AND MR. BADCOCK,

1783-1787:

AND

Defences of Unitarianism,

1786, 1787.

PRINTED BY G. SMALLFIELD, HACKNEY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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CONTENTS

OF THE EIGHTEENTH VOLUME.

Defences

OF THE

HISTORY OF THE CORRUPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY,

In Reply to Dr. Horsley and Mr. Badcock, 1783-1787.

A REPLY TO THE ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE HISTORY OF THE

CORRUPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE MONTHLY REVIEW

FOR JUNE, 1783.

Seet.

I. Of the Nazarenes, Ebionites, and Alogi

II. Of the Inference from Hegesippus

III. Of what may be inferred from Justin Martyr, concern-

ing the State of Opinions in his Time

IV. Of the Quotation from Eusebius, and Tertullian's Ac-

count of the ancient Unitarians more particularly

considered

V. Of my being charged with advancing that Justin

Martyr was the First who started the Notion of

Christ's Pre-existence

VI. Of the Doctrine of the Miraculous Conception

VII. Miscellaneous Articles

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1. Of the Argument from the Writings of the Apostles

and the Apostolical Fathers

51

II. Of the Distinction between the Ebionites and the Na-

zarenes

65

III. That the Primitive Unitarians were not considered as

Heretics

IV. Of the Inference that may be drawn from the Passage

of Athanasius, concerning the Opinion of the early

Jewish Christians, relating to Christ

69