the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

[243] a synagogue of the Jews existed, and where, consequently, it might be expected that Jewish believers would also be found, with whom it was desirable to cultivate the amicable relations and intercourse of Christian brethren,—it is difficult to see the grounds on which this opinion can be maintained. As it was, after all, a question not of principle, but merely of expediency, or compliance with the customs and prejudices of their Jewish brethren, who till now had formed the whole of the church, and were all zealous for the law,—so it would naturally cease with the reason for it when this class of disciples ceased to exist; as, on the other hand, it may possibly revive on a change of circumstances, if any church of Jewish Christians should again be formed.

In the Essay ‘On the Dispensations of God to Mankind as revealed in the Scriptures,’ first published in 1725, it is the author's object to shew the ‘single notion,’ as he expresses it, that runs through the whole, in order to make it appear that they are part of one general plan, and thus display the connexion of the several parts, and, in unity of revealed truth, the strongest evidence that can attend it. ‘If it shall appear that there is one worthy and noble design pursued through the books of the Old and New Testament, though they had forty or more different authors, and were not written in less than 1600 years, it will amount to the clearest demonstration that the Bible cannot be the work of enthusiasts writing in different ages. And will not every one then see, that it must have been from Him who exists through all ages, and sees what is past, present, and to come?’ This one object he takes to be