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    The Christmas Dispute Revived
    The Christmas Dispute Revived
    The Christmas Dispute Revived
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    The Christmas Dispute Revived

    By William Smith and Elias Lee

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    A Letter from Connecticut to Elder ELIAS LEE,
    Anabaptist Teacher in the Vicinity of Ballston, State of New-York.



    Norwalk, November 16th, 1799. SIR,



    A CONTROVERSYbetween you and Mr. Rogers the
    Episcopal Minister of Ballston, having lately fallen into my hands, wherein you
    are pleased to treat the Episcopalians of these States in a very ungentlemanly
    manner. I shall at present only advert to your assertions, that no man can
    ascertain the precise day of the Nativity of our Lord, and of consequence that
    Episcopalians are superstitious and absurd in their observance of the 25th of
    December, as the anniversary of Christmas. Hereafter, I shall do myself the
    pleasure of addressing you on the other observances and doctrines sacred to
    Episcopalians, with which you have taken, in my judgment, very unwarrantable
    freedoms.



    To a man so conversant with the sacred Scripture, and so replenished
    with the plenitude of the Holy Spirit, as you profess to be, the circumstance
    of St. Luke's beginning his Gospel with a chronological account of an event
    immediately connected with our Saviour's Incarnation, and a virtual repetition
    of the same thing by the Holy Angel as the time of the Annunciation, can hardly
    be supposed matters of indifference: And yet it is evident that you have either
    overlooked or mistaken the meaning of both; for you say it is a matter of
    indifference whether the day can be ascertained or not: The which I deny, and
    think it a matter of great consequence to Christianity that the day of our
    Lord's Nativity should be chronologically ascertained. I will therefore,
    present you, and the candid public, a calculation of the precise day of the
    Nativity founded upon two data, viz. the Old and New Testament.



    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateDec 22, 2017
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