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    works , duly weighed by the Lord of Sp irits . ' * Chap , xxxviii . 2 . Dr . L ., we are aware , is not a Calvinistic Churchman but we think he will be puzzled to reconcile this with any interpretation of the eleventh and seventeenth Articles .

    We must , however , do him the jus ** Uce to remark , that he has discovered , as he thinks , a proof of the deity of the Holy Spirit , and we shall not withhold it from our readers : " Neither is allusion thus only made to the Elect one or the Messiah , but also to another divine Person or Power , bath of whom , under the yn \\\ denomination

    of the Lordsy are stated to have been over the water , that is , as I conceive , over the fluid mass of unformed matter , at the period of creation . * He , [ the Elect One , ] ' it is stated , ' shall call to every power of the heavens , to all the holy above , and to the power of God . The

    Cherubim , the Seraphim , and the Ophanim , all the angels of power , and all the angels of the Lords , namely , of the Elect One , and of the other Power , who upon earth were over the water on that day , shall raise their united voice , &c . ' In this passage an obvious reference occurs

    to the first verse of Genesis , in which it is said , that ' the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters . * As , therefore , the more full description of the Son of Man here given , may be considered as the Jewish comment of the day upon the vision of Daniel , so also , I apprehend , must the last-quoted allusion to the Book of Genesis be considered as a comment

    ot the same nature upon that account of Moses which describes the commencement ut creation . Here , then , we have not merely the declaration of a Plurality , but that of a precise and distinct Trinity , of persons , under the supreme appellation af Lords ; two of whom , denominated the Elect One and the other [ divine ]

    / ower are represented as not less engaged than the Lord of spirits himself in the formation of the world . And it should be added , that upon these , as l ] P ° u the more immediate agents in the work of creation , a particular class of a »^ ls h mentioned as appropriately attenclant . '—Pref . pp . xliii . xliv .

    Dr . L . himself is uncertain as to the rendering of this passage , and the verb were after upon earth , is inserted by . > nothing answering to it existing ^ the original . What the passage nieans , we profess ourselves ignorant , iWl much suspect that it has been ^ correctl y rendered ; at any rate , the

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    reference of that day to creation is quite arbitrary ; and if the Power of God must be a person because an angel is ascribed to it , so must his presence , Isaiah lxiii . 9 . We rejoice to perceive that the celebrated oriental scholar , Gesenius of

    Halle , ( not Gessenius , as Dr . L . calls him , ) is about to publish a Latin translation of this book . Although little known in this country , having written chiefly in German , he is regarded on the continent as one of their first biblical scholars . He has published in German the best Hebrew

    Lexicon , of the manual class , that has yet been composed , and we are glad to perceive that he is preparing one in Latin and Hebrew , which will be more extensively useful . From him we have

    no doubt we shall receive the Book of Enoch in a more satisfactory form ; for though we are grateful to Dr . L » for the pains which he has taken to present it to us in an English dress , we often wish for more full and

    accurate information . Before we conclude , we must observe , that he writes his mother tongue with great carelessness , e . g . in the tirst page : " The circumstance of its having been quoted by an inspired writer of the New Testament augmented the despair of recovering a

    supposed treasure which had long been lost . ' One might suppose this to mean , that St . Jude by quoting it made men , who despaired before of recovering * it , consider the case as still

    more desperate ; whereas what he meant appears to be , that it augmented their regret that there should be no hope of recovering it . Dr . Gesenius " purports to publish the Book of Enoch ; " and many other passages offending against idiom and usage . K .

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    Art . IL—Directions for the Student in Theology . By Gilbert Wakefield , B . A . pp . 22 . A new edition . Wylie , Glasgow . 1819 . 6 d . r |^ HIS little tract of the celebrated _ JL Gilbert Wakcfield , was published without the author ' s name , A . D .

    1784 . It was afterwards inserted in the Appendix to his Memoirs . It is fraught with the most judicious advice to the young theological student , and is well calculated , to inspire him with a thirst for the most useful and dignified

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    Review .- — Wahejield * & Directio n * for the Theological Student . 415

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/35/