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    turned , i why SHfe < toescta& fa hU < &tetiptotd fekfe 2 dfc r *^ 4 kmh , \ &fa manyibf < ' *« fete' &pfcftfe 6 ' # Hf < i later ¦ f attd should we have ex *^ te # ~ tnat Jthey wotUfi ntrt toave'gfrenialiirit of th ^ time < er the circtfrnstattees ' wfe ^ n this * stupendous trwtfh was w&fdlded"& > ^ theffli ? . CJbaerte in thd ! A « W how ^ minutely and fully the manner is'declared in which the doctrine'of * the extension of Christianity *© the Gentiles was unfolded . And could

    we have thought that the first revelation of the so much more difficult , and so much more incredible doctrine of the Trinity , would not hare occupied a single line of the sacred history ?"«— P . 13 . The believer in that doctrine imagines , of course , that this haB been done . Let him point it out .

    T ; he title of the next pamphlet had been previously adopted by an English writer . The line of argument ib satisfactorily pursued , first , through the preaching of that Apostle , as found in the book of Acts , and , again , through his Epistles . The Epistle to the Hebrews , of which " there is not sufficient evidence that Paul was the author , " is separately examined , and a similar result is obtained that the writer was a

    Unitarian . Of the two smaller tracts which are placed last in our series , one contains a very judicious examination of the objections to Unitarian Christianity , and repels them in an ingenious manner and with excellent spirit . The last which it notices is , " ( that our views give no consolation in sickness and death . " Of

    this objection , our own pages are continually affording the most ample refutation . We extract an additional instance from rthe tract before lis . " A striking example of the < power of this system in disarming death was lately given by a young minister in a neighbouring town , ( Rev . John > E ..

    Abbot , of Salem , ) known to many of our readers , > and singularly endeared to his Mends by eminent Christian Virtue . 'He was smitten by sickness in the midst of a useful and happy life , and sunk slowly tothcgrave . flis religion , and it was that which has now been defended , gave habitual peace to his mind , and spread a sweet smile over his pale countenance . He retained his faculties to his last

    hour ; and when death came , having left pious counsel to the younger members of his family , and expressions of gratitude to his parents , he breathed out life in the language of Jesus , * Father , into thy

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    hands 4 AimMM my i 4 pirit . '> ' Sikh was < l& $ i $ fed dfc ffhewrthb i *(? l < J <> withi ari ^ invrttv ^ ln ^ foitH thfe ^ reat ^ irh ^ lples wthieh w ^ - htfi& > % &ran ( ted % ahd yet ^ oor dddtirttie * as > < wd consolation , ' we die ^ dld , i-ter 8 ^ ktt «^ 3 r ahd death Vf " ~ -P * lgw , i ¦ • - ¦ i >¦ ' " ' ' Wh&U&Vto no less excellent tthmithe Tp ^ eceditegi " | tg style is siwgu lar ) y ' i affect 3 ow # tfc . > ! It convey important fnft > iimatiori"in' a pleading nianner ; and cannot feil always to couoiiiate and ofteu to convince . ;

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    Art . VII . —Two Discourses designed to illustrate in some particulars the Original Use of the Epistles of the New Testament , compared with their Use and Application at the present Day . B y the Rev . Orville Dewey , Pastor or the First Congregational Church in New Bedford . Boston , 1827 . Pp . 35 .

    Tim following general principle is laid down by our author , that " Paul , and it may be added , all the sacred writers did not deliver their instructions in an abstract and general form adapted alike and equally to all times , but that they had a local and special reference to the times in which they wrote . " After some Observations on the local references in the Epistles , our author proceeds to remark ,

    * ' There is , indeed , what roust have struck every attentive mind , a great difference between the instructions of our Saviour and his apostles , but it was a difference chiefly owing to-cirounistances . It was a difference not in the Bubstance , but in the form , in the style of religious instruction . Our Saviour ' s teaching was evidently more simple , and more entirely practical . Jt dealt more in easy and intelligible expositions and

    illustrations of truth and duty , of piety and acceptance with God . Our Saviour was announcing a system which had-not yet encountered objection . It could not meet with objection till it was announced . But the apostles had to contend with a world of dbjectors of every description . Hence their instructions became more speculative , more complicated , more intermixed with the institutions and ideas and prejudices of the age , and in just that proportion they

    became more argumentative and obscure . " —P . 10 . The peculiar use of the terms faith and justification falls under our author ' s notice :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/43/