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    If tlrese are just conclusions , Mr . Hume ' s reasonings carry with them more weight than has been hitherto attributed to them . But , in spite of Mr . Hume ' s subtleties , mankind will continue to reason with confidence

    from the relation of cause and effect . They will also assume to themselves the privilege of generalizing their ideas , and from similarity in different effects will infer similarity in their causes . And unless it shall be shewn by some solid argument , that an organized universe is not an effect , they will think that they cannot err in ascribing it to an intelligent though invisible Cause .

    But it may , perhaps , be said , that we may as well rest in a self-existent universe as ascend beyond it to a self-existent God . Were the universe a mass of matter , without any indication of design , it might , for any thing that I am

    able to allege , be self-existent . But the marks of design , which it every where exhibits , stamps upon it the character of an effect which could be produced only by a designing cause . Between a harmonized universe and the idea of

    self-existence there is a repugnance , a repugnance founded on the experience which we have had of the connexion between contrivance and a contriver , between effects which indicate an adaptation of means to ends , and an intelligent agent by whom this

    adaptation was devised . But between the notion of intelligence and selfexistence there is no repugnance , and , for any thing that either experience or reason suggests to the contrary , intellect may exist uncreated . Something uncreated there must be ; but as analogy forbids us to suppose that this

    something is an organized system , which seems to testify the operation of an intelligent contriver ; it consequently leads us to conclude that this something is that incomprehensible Being whom we call God . 1 will conclude with the sentiment of the poet , in which even an Atheist will not refuse to join , And it a God there is , that God how great ! E . COGAN . _ _ ^^

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    the strict unity of God than our Lord ' s answer to the ^ Scribe , respecting the first commandment of all , Mark xii . 29 , Kfp * o $ 6 ® £ Q <; yjfxcov Vivptoq iiq £ g ~ iy yet the opinions of learned men b y no means agree as to the just translation of these important words , and I nmst confess myself not quite satisfied with any comments I have been able to

    consult . I am , therefore , induced to offer , with diffidence , to your readers the observations which have occurred to me upon it . The rendering of our authorized Version is , " The Lord our God is one Lord . " The Improved Version , after Vitriuga , Dr . Campbell and others , translates thus : " The

    Lord is our God : the Lord is one . " A difference , the discussion of which has chiefly occupied commentators on the passage , yet it may , perhaps , be a question of still greater interest , and which involves in it the other , what is the most suitable translation of the

    word hq in this connexion . Our Lord answers the Scribe in a quotation from Deut . vi . 4 , and in relating the discourse , the Evangelist Mark , according to the general custom of the New-Testament writers , employs the exact words of the Alexandrian Greek

    Version , which may be considered as having been , from its universal use , in a manner , an authorized version of their Scriptures , among all the Jews who spoke the Greek language at that period . The precise words spoken by Jesus himself , we cannot know : it is

    not unlikely they were taken from a Targum , somewhat resembling the later Chaldee one , which we now possess ; but however this may be , Mark has done what is commonly done amongst us iu translating religious books , he has copied the texts of Scripture in the translation generally known and valued by his readers .

    As our best chance for obtaining satisfaction respecting the real meaning ot the words under our consideration , we wiH revert to the original Hebrew of Deuteronomy , of which they are the translation—in « r ] \ n "mrf ^ N mrr

    where the substantive verb being omitted , it must be determined by the sense whether the words make one clause or two , which seems to me to depend entirely on the question , whether * rrm , one , is immediately connected with mm or CD > nb * : * &

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    6 S Mr . Hmckson Mark xii . 29 .

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    Kaieter , Sir , January 8 , 1822 . Y JHHERE is no text more commonly JL appealed to as a declaration of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/4/