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      known to their father ; " that Jephtha did not sacrifice his daughter ; that David did not put the people of Rabbah under saws , harrows and axes , but settle them to these implements of labour ; that the builders of

      Babel did not plan a tower whose top should reach to heaven , but one whose dome or ceiling should be like the firmament or heavenly host , which the Babylonians worshiped , cum muliis ' aliis .

      The Deist may turn round upon Mr . Bellamy with an objection against a divine revelation which for ages has been mistaken in its principal facts , and which the majority of the learned still understand in a sense which he

      himself allows makes it unworthy of God , and therefore incredible . Mr . Bellamy should , we think , have met the objection , though in doing so he might have scandalized the reputed orthodox believer .

      A ^ few objections to the New Testament are answered . The following exposition of the variations in the inscription on the cross , as given by the four Evangelists , is very

      ingenious : ** Objection . C 6 i From the inscription put upon the cross , it appears that not any two of these writers agree in reciting- l \ ie same words—Matt . This is Jesus the king of

      Ci jdnswer . u Now so far are the apostles from disagreeing- in this matter , that it appears they all are in perfect agreement . Matthew says , They set up over his head his accusation P jvhat was this accusation ? Was it , This is Jesus ? No , for all Jerusalem knew it was Jesus . His accusation was THE KING OF THE JEWS . Mark

      says , c His accusation was written over , THE KING OF THE JEWS . ' Luke says , i And a superscription also was written over him , THE KING OF THE JEWS . ' And John says , < And Pilate wrote a title , and put it on the cross : " * what was this title ? Was it Jesus of Nazareth ! Common sense says no ; Jesus of Nazareth could not be a title . He says , consistently with the other apostles , that the title was , THE KING OF THE JEWS .

      the Jews . Mark . —— Icing of the . Jews . Luke . This is the king of the Jews . John . Jesws of Nazareth the king of the Jews .

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      " Thus it is evident , that notwithstanding the apostles are called liars by these objectors , they perfectly agree ; not even a single word is varied by any of them respecting * his accusation and title ? for they all say it ' was , THE KING OF THE JEWS . And if John , who wrote in Asia , sixty years after the crucifixion , saw the

      necessity of mentioning his place of abode , in order to give the Asiatics an opportunity of ascertaining- the truth of the things lie was declaring- Matthew , Mark and I * uke , who wrote their hooks at a very early period after the crucifixion , did not see it necessary to inform the inhabitants of Jerusalem what they already knew viz , that Jesus was of Nazareth . "—Pp . 90 , 91 .

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      Art . IV . —The Scriptural Meaning of the Title Son of God as-applied to our Lord , considered in a Discourse delivered before the Warwickshire , Src . Tract Society , at Woherhampton

      July 28 , 1818 . By John Kenrick , M . A . 12 mo . pp . 38 . Birmingham . Printed and sold by Belcher in London sold by Hunter and by Eaton . 1818 .

      1 1 HE author of this discourse , from JL John xx . 31 , here confines * himself to the question , " What is that meaning of the title Son of God , which may be proved by most certain warrant of Holy Scripture ? " And in conducting this inquiry he first

      observes , that u the title Son of God , as applied to our Saviour , can be taken in no other than a figurative sense , ' * This even our opponents must admit .

      " Unless , " says the preacher , p . 7 , 66 they are prepared to maintain that the relation between our Lord and his Father is precisely that which subsists between an earthly parent and his child , they must

      take the words in some figurative sense . Whether they suppose Christ to he the Son of God in virtue of his emission ^ or e ? nanation from the Father , or the communication of the Divine essence to him , or his creation in some more immediate and direct

      manner than all other beings , { for in such unprofitable questions has the labour of metaphysical theologians been employed , ) still the term cannot be used in the sense in which it is applied to the connexion between one human being" and another . Consequently it is used in a figurative sense . "

      Mr . Kenrick ' s second general remark is , that " The title Son of God was not one which was first devised by our Lord or his

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      Rttfiew ^^^ Ken rich ^ s Scriptural Meaning of the Title Son of God . 573

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/49/