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    that it cotnprises two very distinct commandments . I had thought to close here my communication ; but as E . S . appears to be little conversant with the polemical writings on tjie division of the Decalogue , 1 must request his

    attention to the following observations on that subject , which 1 shall copy from f Traqts occasioned Jb . y the publication of a Cparge cteiwred to the Clergy of Durham , by Shute ^ Bishop of Durham , in 1800 . By the Re v . J . Lingard . "

    1 . The Scripture itself informs us that the decalogue contains ten commandments , but no where exhibits them actually divided . The prohibitory and precipient clauses amount in all to fourteen . It is , therefore , necessary to class some of them together , in orcjer to reduce them to ten distinct precepts . i

    2 . *? Qn tgis apcount it appears natural to unite together , all such clauses as appertain to the same subject : and , therefore , Catholics consider as oiie command . ment whatever regards the worship of false gods . Protestants ^ divide it into two : but tvith more reason they ought to divide it into three . 1 . ^ Thou shalt have no

    other gods before me . ' 2 . * Thou shalt not make unto { hee any graven image , &c . 3 . ' Thou s ^ alt not bow thyself to them , nor serve them' This conclusion , with the reason which is afterwards

    assigned , that God is a jealous God , and which equally applies to every clause , is a proof that , in the eye of the Jewish legislator , { hey formed but one commandment . 3 , " In Scripture they are usually described as one commandment . This appears from Exod . xx . 23 ; 2 Kings xvii . 35 ; Lev . xix . 2 ; and all those texts , in which to serve images and to serve other

    gods , is considered as the same crime , and , of course , as the violation of the same commandment . 4 . In our arrangement of the decalogue ,, we divide the tenth precept of the Church of England into two , for this obvious reason , that as the acts themselves are forbidden by two different enminandments , on aecount of their different natures ^ so the desires of these acts ought also to be forbidden by different precepts . c Thou shalt not commit aclulteiy *—* thou shalt not covet thy neighbour ' s wife '—* thou shall not steal" *— ' thou shalt not covet thy neighbour ' s house , * ' &c . Tracts j p . 260 . If these observations should prove insufficient to convince E . S . that the division of the decalogue followed by

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    Catholics , is not an artifice t © conceal their idolatry , I must inform him that it is the division followed by St « Augustin , by Clement of Alexandria , Strom . 1 . 6 , and by St . Jerome , Comment , in Ps . xxxii . Nay , it is a fact ,

    that John Huss , * the father of the - Bohemian religionists , and Martin Luther ,- } " the great patriarch of the Reformation , whose whole study was to detect and expose the abominations of

    the Rbmish Church , followed not the Protestant division , but the same as Catholics ; and , what may appear rather strange , in their editions of the commandments they even suppress the prohibition in question . R . H ,

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    Gloucester , Sir , _ April 20 , 1819 , HAVING discovered , through different channels , that I have given offence to some of my brethren by the Dedication to the Rev . Thomas Belsham , which I have prefixed to

    the little work just published , entitled *• Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience aud Private Judgment grossly violated , " I beg leave to enter u £ > ott record , in your valuable and liberal Miscellany , a defence of my conduct , and , if necessary , an apology for my inadvertence .

    * Opera Huss , Norimbergae , 1558 , p . 30 . f Op . Luth . Jenae , 1589 , p . 117 . See Dr . Martin Luther's " Catechism for Parsons , Schqohnasters , Masters of Families ^ Young Persons and Children at School . " " The ten commandments of God which a master of a family ought exactly to repr « -

    In the Letter , No . 3 , page 8 , I informed my anonymous assailant , that Unitarian Christians wish to adhere strictly to the precept of the blessed Jesus : " . CaLll ' no man your father

    - _ ^ * J A . _ 1 _ ?_ J V . *__ r"fl" * l _ _ j * _ _ A — - ^ wv nn / 1 sent to his domestics . —The first commandment : Thou shalt have no other god $ besides me . Q . What is that —Ans . We must fear , love and trust God above all things . The second commandment : Thou shalt not use the name of thy God unprofitabjy . The ninth commandment : Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house *

    The tenth commandment : Thou shalt not covet thy iieig'hbours ' s wife , servant-m aid ) beast , or any thing that is his . " -Appendix to Luther's German Bible , p . 23-Lunebarr . 1640 . See Tracts , pp . 257 and 258 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/20/