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    was soon to institute in commemoration of his death ; which , it is well known , was no other than the Feast of the Passover , ox Paschal Lamb ; and not only the very passage , but the very words which he uses , occur in E > eut . xvi . 2 . The words are these ;

    cC Thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God , of the flock and the herd in thy place , which the Lord shall choose to place his name there /' The original of name Sent ( whence the Greek cry pa ) means also dis - tinction ^ mark ^ signature ^ answering precisely to the Greek crtpcocyi ?^ a scaL Hence our Lord says , Labour not for the meat which perisheth , but for

    that meat which endureth unto everlasting life , which the son of man shall give unto you ; for upon him hath God , even the Father , placed his name , ** or " seal ; " i . e . Labour for that eternal life which I shall procure for you by my death , and the emblems of which you will be invited to partake 5 for I am the victim whom the Father hath

    marked out to be slain , the lamb on whom his name is placed in legible characters , as the offering to be made for the sins of the world / ' See i . 29 . xix . 36 . According to our Lord ' s own

    words , the Father hath set his seal upon the son of man , rovlov yag 0 tfothjg ectpgOLyicrev 0 Sfso ? . But Mr * Kenrick would change

    his language , saying that it was not upon the son of man but upon his works that the Father

    hath set his seal ; and his com * xnent , if his own words were substituted , would be , to say thi ^ Jeast , very incongruous : —> " La ~ fcour for the meat which the son

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    of man shall give you , because my Father hath authorised my works . " In other words , * I will give you the bread of life , because my Father hath authorised me to work miracles /'

    Observe the change of the tenses . Jesus does not say , Ci which the son of man giveth , " but wilt give . The son of man then will give the bread of life , because he has received authority to work miracles . If this be not

    incoherent and absurd , I do not know in what incohcrency and absurdity consist . On the other hand , take our Lord to mean that he was the person appointed to be sacrificed , and the change in the tense is as proper , as the sense is connected . 6 i I am the

    lamb already marked out for sa ~ crifice ; and if , when I am offered up , you partake of my body and my blood , you shall have everlasting life . " I shall only add , that I greatly respect the memory and highly value the works of Mr . Kenrick , but shall never consent , with your correspondent , to sacrifice truth to his authority , or to that of apy other

    man I . take this opportunity , Mr . Editor , to notice a censure past upon my Illustrations by a writer in the Annual Review ^ whom nevertheless I respect as ^ liberal and able critic . ¦ " The

    work displays / ' says he , " abundant proofs of deep and energetic thought ; but we must acknowledge that it appears to us ^ raixed with too frequent marks of hastef

    and an indisposition to that n »« nute examination and correction which every writer on subjects of such high importance owes to the public ' In writing the N

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    372 Mr . Jones on his u Illustrations

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/18/