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Jefus to be Chrift, lie denied his being the Chrift foretold 
by the Jevvilh prophets. The deliverer promifed to the 
Jevvifh nation was not, as he pretended, the Son of God ; 
nor did the oracles of the Old Teftament agree to Jelus 
Chrift. Mareion, fays Tertullian, was a believer in two 
Chrifts ; one, who appeared in the time of Tiberius, for 
the falvation of all nations; and another, the reftorer of 
the Jevvifli ftate, who is yet to come. 
The Old Teftatnent was altogether fet afide by Mareion, 
under the notion that it proceeded from the creator of all 
the fin and mifery which fubfift in the world ; and his fol¬ 
lowers agreed, that the law and the gofpel could not come 
from the fame being, becaufe there are, in their opinion, 
feveral things contained in the former inconfiftent with 
many in the latter. They objected to the appointment 
of facrifices, and to the diftinflion of meats into clean and 
unclean ; and they were difpleafed with the order given 
to the Jews, to fpoil the Egyptians. Tertullian fays, that 
they alleged fuch and fo many objections againft the 
Jaw and the prophets, that they feemed more like the ob¬ 
jections of Heathens than of perfons who embraced Chrif- 
tianity, though ever fo heretical in their notions. Their 
averlion to the Old Teftament was fo great, that on this 
account they mutilated many paflages in the New, even 
in thofe books which they admitted ; rejecting all w hich 
related to the law and the prophets, or which were quoted 
from them, as plainly foretelling the coming of Jefus 
Chrift, and which fpoke of his Father as the Creator of 
the world. Confidering this Creator, or God of the Jews, 
as of a charafler very different from the good God, or Fa¬ 
ther of our Lord Jefus Chrift, they afl'erted that Chrift 
came to deltroy the law given by him, becaufe it was op- 
pofite to the gofpel. 
Mareion -received but eleven books of the New Tefta¬ 
ment, and thofe were ltrangely curtailed and altered. He 
divided them into two parts, calling the one the Gofpel, 
and the other the Apoltolicon. The former contained 
only one of the four gofpels, viz. that of St. Luke, and 
this was mutilated and altered, and interpolated in a great 
variety of places. Not allowing it to be called the Gofpel 
of St. Luke, be retrenched the firft and fecond chapters 
entirely, and began his gofpel at the firft verfe of the third 
chapter, and this verfe he read in a different manner from 
our copies, as we have already obferved. He rejected the 
genealogy and baptifm of our Saviour; and it therefore 
Teems not unlikely that he connected that part of the firft 
and fecond verfes of the third chapter which he retained, 
with the 31ft verfe of the fourth chapter. He alfo re¬ 
jected the hiftory of the temptation, becaufe he would not 
attribute too much of human weaknefs to our Saviour; 
and the other ttory contained in the fourth chapter, of 
Chrift’s going into the fynagogue at Nazareth, and read¬ 
ing out of the prophet Efaias, was alfo rejeCted. This 
they expunged, with the whole that follows it to the end 
of the 30th verfe. But it would be tedious to enumerate 
all the alterations, or omiflions, or interpolations, which 
Mareion and his followers made in the Gofpel of St. Luke. 
They are recited from Epiphanius by Dr. Lardner. Mar- 
cioiTrejeCted the ACts of the Apoltles from his canon of 
the New Teftament; his Apoftolicon coniilting of ten of 
the Epiftles of St. Paul. The reafon why he rejeCted this 
book is very obvious, according to Tertullian, becaufe 
■from it we can plainly lhow, that the God of the Chrif- 
tians, and the Creator, or God of the Jews, were the fame 
being; and that Chrift was fent by him, and by no other. 
The ten Epiftles of St. Paul, admitted by Mareion, are 
much altered. Thofe which he receives, in a very muti¬ 
lated ftate, are the Epiftles to the Galatians, the firft and 
fecond to the Corinthians, that to the Romans, the firft 
and fecond to the Thefl'alonians, and that to the Ephe- 
fians, which he calls the Epiftle to the Laodiceans, and 
thofe to the Colofiians, to Philemon, and to the Philip- 
pians. After all, it is juftly obferved by Lardner, that the 
teftimony even thus afforded in favour of the books of 
the New Teftament is very ftrong. “ By means of this 
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heretic’s rejeCHng fome books entirely, and mutilating 
others, the ancient Chriftians were led to examine into 
the evidence for thefe facred writings, and to compare 
copies together, and on this account to fpeak of whole 
books, and particular paflages, very frequently in their 
works; which hath enabled us of later ages to authenti¬ 
cate thefe books, and to come at the genuine reading of 
many texts, in a better manner than we could otherwife 
have done.” Lardner's Works, vol. ix. Mojheim's Eccl. HijL 
vol. i. 
MAR'CITES, or Marci'tjE, a fe£t of heretics in the 
fecond century, who alfo called themfelves the perfetii, and 
made profeflion of doing every thing with a great deal of 
liberty, and without any fear. This dofhine they bor¬ 
rowed from Simon Magus, who however was not their 
chief; for they were called Marches from one Marcus, 
who conferred the priefthood, and the adminiftration of 
the facrainents, on women. 
MAR'CIUS SABI'NUS, the progenitor of the Marciaa 
family, at Rome. He came to Rome with Numa ; and it 
was he who advifed Numa to accept of the crown, which 
the Romans offered to him. He attempted to make himfelf 
king of Rome, in oppofition to Tullus Hoftilius; and, 
when his efforts proved uni’uccefsful, he killed himfelf. 
His fon, who married a daughter of Numa, was made high, 
prieft by his father-in-law. He was father of Ancus Mar- 
tius. Pint, in Numa. 
MARCK, a town of France, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais : fix miles eaft of Calais. 
MARCK, a town of Pruflia, in Pomerelia: twelve miles 
fouth-eaif of Marienburg. 
MARCK (John), a learned Dutch Calvinift divine 
and theological profeffor, was born at Sneck in Friefland, 
in the year 1655. He purfued his Itudies at the univer- 
fity of Franeker, where he was held in great repute, and 
was appointed-profeffor of divinity. Afterwards he ac¬ 
cepted of an invitation to remove to Groningen, where 
he was chofen minifter, and was alfo made profeiTor of 
divinity and ecclefiaftical hiftory in the univerlity of that 
city. In 1689, he religned thefe offices for the fame em¬ 
ployments in the univerfity of Leyden, where he dif- 
charged their duties with equal diligence and credit to 
himielf and that feminary, during the remainder of his 
life. He died in 1731, when he was about the age of fie- 
venty-five. He was the author of, 1. De Sibyllinis Car- 
minibus Difputationes XII. 1682, 8vo. 2. Compendium 
Theologian, See. 4to. of which he alfo publifhed an 
abridgment in i2mo. entitled, Chriftianse Theologiae 
Medulla Didaclico Elenctica. 3. Commentaries on feve- 
ral books of the facred Scriptures. 4. Exercitationes 
Biblicas, in eight volumes, printed at different periods, 
5. Exercitationes Mifcellaneae, 1690, conlifting chiefly of 
controverfial treatifes againft the Catholics, Remonftrants, 
Socinian°, &c. In 1748, a collection of his philological 
pieces was publifhed at Groningen, in two volumes 4to. 
Saxii Onomajl. Lit. part 5. 
MAR'CKENDORF, a town of the principality of 
Querfurt: four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Juterbock. 
MARCKLEU'TEN, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Culmbach ; three miles fouth-eaft of Kirch 
Lamitz. 
MAR'CKLOE, a town of Pruflia, in the province of. 
Bartenland : fix miles north of Raftenburg. 
MAR'CKOLSHEIM, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine : twelve miles fouth of Benfel- 
den, and twenty-three fouth of Strafburg. Lat. 48. n„. 
N. Ion. 7. 37. E. 
MAR'CLEY (Great and Little), villages in Hereford- 
fhire, to the fouth-weft of Ledbury. Near the latter is a 
hill, which, in 1575, according to Dr. Fuller, after fliak- 
ing and roaring for three days, was in motion for eight 
hours, till it mounted to a place twelve fathoms higher,, 
where it fettled. In the place from whence it moved, it 
left a gap of 400 feet wide, and 320 feet long; and the 
whole field was above twenty acres*. It overthrew- Kin- 
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