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    shall rejoice , and your joy no man taketh from you . Our Saviour then goes on , Tt is the spirit that quickeneth . jyj y God and Fattier will assuredly recall me from the grave , and put it in my power to renew my intercourse with you . The flesh prqfiteth nothing . Mv death * separately attended to ,

    would not be aay benefit to you , but followed by my resurrection , this will give an everlasting establishment to yo&r faitti and hopes . Hence , also , flit words that I speak unto you , they are spirit and they are life : unfolding to you the path to a happy immortality , confirmed and established by my resurrection from the dead . In this

    connexion also Christ is himself called a fudckening spirit . Here , from their striking similarity , allow me to refer year readers to the words of the Apostle Peter . 1 Peter iii . 18 , 19 , he observes that Christ was put to death in Ohe flesh , tut quickened by the Spi ?* it . This appears to apply immediately to his crucifixion , and after this , to his

    recall from death by the spirit and power o £ * God . By which Spirit the apostle observes , that he went and preached to the spirits in prison , i . e . Ins disciples , animated by the fact of ftis resurrection , and receiving power froin on high , resumed their labours ,

    and went from place to place publishing the glad-tidings of the gospel to those who too nearly resembled the guilty inhabitants of the world , in the days of Noah . This , also , is agreeable to ancient prophecy , in which the mission of Christ , in its eternallv important

    objects is described by preaching delivertonee to the captives , tend opening the prison doors to them ttho are bound ; by Haftifig captivity captive and giving gifts untotnen . My referring your readers to the above words of the apostle , in connexion with our Saviour ' s words first mentioned , arises from a present

    conviction that they apply to the same great objects ; those extraordinary interpositions of divine , almighty power , which attended the first publication of the Christian religion . The weight of ttte observations met with in the Imt * rovfca Version is fully admitted , as

    % k p of the authorities to which the ^ flitors refer . The above is therefore offered , principally to renew the attention of your readers to a part of * 8 tfj > tune Uiatory , wiiich does , not apt * Gftr to hate been yiet satisfactorily

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    explained , or , at least , to which the advocates for the pre-existence of Christ return , and continue to press upon those who profess the pure Unitarian and Scripture doctrine , that there is One God , and One Mediator between God and men , the Man Christ Jesus . L . HOLDEN .

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    Sir , Bath , Aug . 27 , 1817-IT would be very gratifying to many of your readers if some of your correspondents could ascertain who was the writer of the 90 th psalm . It is , at the head of it , commonly ascribed to Moses . But there are no

    circumstances in the contents of it to confirm this supposition . He could not say , according to the age of men in his time , " The days of our years are threescore of years and ten , " and

    what follows ; he would rather have said , fivescore years and ten , or sixscore of years . The words of the tenth verse are more applicable to the time of David . But my particular intention , at present , is to inquire upon what foundation our modern critics presume that the Lord Jesus Christ is exalted to the

    government of the whole universe ? It is very rational to believe that he i # made head and lord of all the children of men . But the habitation of the children 6 f men is but a very small part of those millions of millions of worlds of which the boundless universe consists . Besides , his being the mediator between God and men limits

    his mediation to our world , and implies not that his dominion extends any farther . By the angels , in the beginning of the epistle to the Hebrews , are evidently meant the prophets who in time past spake unto the fathers . None of those were so beloved of God , or so exalted by him , as the Lord Jesus

    Christ . To none of these did he say , " Thou art my beloved Son . " On the contrary , it is said , " Let all thoseangefs or messengers of God to our world worship him /* that is , be subject * or accounted inferior to him ; he being so much superior to them , as " he hath b ^ y inheritance obtained a more excellent

    name than they . " These observations , I presume , will be sufficient until your correspondents of different sentiments furnish us with their objections . w . n

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    Biblical Criticism . —The QOth Psalm * 681

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 681, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/41/