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    }) y his Son . We iiaye paramount calls and claims upon our sympathies and our resources . We have to assist those who , by studying the Scripture for themselves , have submitted their educational prejudices to the testimony of Christ , ¦»

    * . TT- * **_ £ a 1 _ — 1 ^ S ~* m that the Father is * the only true God / We have to assist female teachers , deprived of their scholars , and masters of ch arity-schools , who on some detected point of private lieterodoxy , are turned from the house that sheltered themselves aj ) d their infants , in the darkness of

    midnight , and *¦ amid the pelting of the pitiless storm . ' We have seen the vision of those who cry , earnestly , ' Come and help us / from places where the believers in the One God and Father are cursed in the uame of the Lord . We may at least say , that we have stood between the

    REPUTED HERETIC and hlS HOLY OPPRES - SOR ; that , through our intervention , the ' prey has been rescued from the teeth of the spoiler ; ' that , through our instrumentality , under the blessing of Him who ' prospereth the work of the hands / * the sparrow hath found a house , and the swallow a nest for herself , where she

    may lay her young , even thine altars , O Lord of hosts ! my King and my God ! ' " —Pp . 177—181 . The British Review is , we apprehend , very little known amongst Unitarians : for their sake an answer was

    not necessary : but when it is considered , that the charge which is not answered is commonly pronounced unanswerable , and that there is a large class of readers who are easily imposed upon , by the specious misrepresentations and oracular decisions of Reviewers , Servetus ' s defence of his brethren must be allowed to be

    seasonable , and to entitle him to the thanks of " the sect every where spoken against" and every where prevailing .

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    Art , III . —Reflections upon the History of the Creation inJhe Book of Genesis : a Discourse , delivered at Warring ton , August 19 , 1821 : and published at the Request of the Ministers , and of the Congregation . By Thomas Belsham , Minister of

    the Chapel in Essex Street , Strand . 8 vo . pp . 36 . Hunter . I ^ HIS is not one of those sermons X . that are forgotten as soon as published . The pages of the Monthly depository shew that it has excited

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    a lively interest ainongst theologians * and the controversy which it has ocea * sioned must be allowed to be of considerable importance . Mr . Belsham states his opinions with his usual

    clearness , and maintains them with his usual ability . The question to which the sermon has given rise will therefore be argued with this advant age ^ that the preacher has not left the possibility of a doubt concerning what he himself intends .

    Mr . Belsham takes for his text Gen . i . 1 , and states in the introduction to his discourse his acquiescence in the conjecture of some learned men , that this book is a compilation of ancient documents . These , he thinks , may be traced to at least three different writers ; for this he assigns the following reasons :

    " First , that there are many passages , and some whole chapters , in which the word God ( in the original Elohim ) is constantly used to denote the Supreme Being , and no other title is applied to the Divine Majesty . Secondly , in other passages the word Lord ( in the original Jehovah ) ouly is used , and the appellation

    God is excluded ; excepting that in a few instances it is joined with the other , and the Divine Being is called Jehovah-Elohim , the Lord God . Thirdly , there are other passages , and even whole chapters , from which the words , both God and Lord , and every other title expressive of the Supreme Being , are altogether excluded , which must have been

    intentional , if it were not the effect of ignorance ; because , in the greater part of the books of the Old Testament , and even in the other portions of the book of Genesis itself , the words God or Lord , occur in almost every sentence . " "—P . 3 .

    It is probable , according to Mr . Belsham , that some of the documents existed previously to the age of Moses \ amongst which he reckons those chapters and sections in which the title God is applied to the Supreme Being , and where the word Jehovah does not occur . He refers for proof to Exod . vi . 6 .

    After these introductory critical remarks , Mr . Belsham proceeds to state those great and important moral truths to which the writer of the narrative of the creation bears his solemn testimony , viz . that there is a God , the Creator , the Former , the Sovereign Proprietor and Lord of the heavens ,

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    Jhemew . ' —Belshetfns Sefm $ n on the History of the Creation . 1 II

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/47/