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    © f the incarnation ? A , Yes ; is in like liiantier — Q } Why then d ® we believe all these things ? A . Because God has revealed them . —Q ^ And v ^ hy has God obliged us to believe things that are incGntprehensible ? A . Because it has pleased him thus to exercise our faith . —«*

    Q . Are we treated ill in being forced to believe things which are above our comprehension ? A . On the contrary , by It we are honoured . —Q ^ Why ? A . Because it is raising us above ourselves . — <^ What ought the belief of so many incomprehensible things to produce in

    us ? A . The desire of one day seeing them *—^ Q ^ Where 9 hall we see them ? A . la heaven , where God shall clearly reveal himself *<» us . ~ Q ^ What say you of those wrio imagine they can under * stand the secrets of God ? A . That they are fdols and madmen . —Q ^ Why do you call them fools and madmen ? A .

    Because they know not themselves ; they know not how the smallest things are made , as a . fly , an ant , a barley-corn ; an 4 they wish to dive into the secrets of GocL "

    This Lesson is an excellent preparation for orthodox believing . The man that has well digested it is in a fit state for receiving the following

    • ' Lesson . — - Of the Commandments &f tht Church . —Q ^ Has the church the power of making commandments ? A . Yes , undoubtedly . —Q ^ Who has given this power Y A . God himself irt appointing her our mother —Q ^ Why does the church make commandments ? A . To direct us in the observation of the

    commandments of God . —Qj How many commandments of the church are there ? A . Six . —Q ^ Repeat them ? A . I . Thou shah k

    Thou shalt confess all thy sins at least once a year . IV . Thou shalt receive thy Grantor * ( into thy mouth ) " with humility at least at Easter . V , Thou shalt fast on Ember -weeks , Vigils , and the whole Lent . VI . Thou shalt eat meat neither Friday nor Saturday . "'

    The translation was evidently done m haste . The prayers at the etui of the catechism , arc made

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    quite ridiculous , by the stibstitu * tioft of the flttniliar pronouns you and your , for ( he tnore solerriii ones , thou and fkee and thine ^ in the addresses to the Supremo Being . Almighty God ! who hath ( hast ) created us in your likeness

    and made us capable of knowing and enjoying you for ever , we adore you , Sic . ' * Ci O God f wbd have ( hast ) all in your power , \ v <* acknowledge that we have nothing but what comes from you ^ &c »

    u We adore you O my ( our ) G&d , who art here present ; \ v 6 praise you ^ &c . ?> These barbarisms we should have thought ii impossible for a schooUboy to disgrace paper with , who had re * ceived half a dozen lessons in

    grammar . Prefixed to the Catechism , is an " Introduction" by the translator , containing many sensible and tru - ly Protestant remarks , strongly , though not elegantly expressed . More remarks toight have bcerj

    made upon the creed of an Anfi-Christian Church , which professes to believe , that God consists of three persons , each perfect s independent God , and yet that he is but one ; that the second person of the unchangeable ^ omnipre * sent Godhead , underwent a me *

    tempsychosis or incarnation , that is , came dov ? n to earth and became a man ; that this second person , still God , thoiigh become man , and as God impassible and immortal , suffered and died ; that

    this ** condescending God / ' per * fectly holy , bore , by imputation the guilt and punishment of his

    oxj'ii creatures , imputed and inflicted by himself ; and that bis blood , the blood of a God-mttu , extinguished his own ' wrath , considered only as God ! !

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    p 6 French National Catechism *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/40/