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    sents it as one qualification for the duty he had undertaken that he -had had " perfect uride ^ afriding e > f all mtigi frota th £ ve *? &M ; " and We may therefore presume that the writers of the Gospel would endeavour to set forth as complete a representation of Christianity as their knowledge enabled them to give . If it be maintained that they Were ^ ivifttifig riot for the ignorant , but for the well-informed ; still the objeel wnictT &ey had in view , to put them

    in remembrance of the truths of t&e gospel , w <> uld require a distinct and complete statement of the fuadaifterfrai articles t ) f Ch ^ r Ctolstian faith ; and equally certain is it that tti £ minds tit th 6 se \ to tfhott ! they wtfote would have felt a painful loss had the wtfrk Which tfaej piertteea fcee ^ i deficient in any one of the essential features of their fonfdly cbe ¥ i § Bed religion .

    Having disposed of the Gospete , tfur author proceeds t& underrate ( as we think ) the value of the Acts of tfife Apostles . •« The book of the Acts of the Apostles contains a history of the jprogfess ^ but ntfde&i l of the preaching , of Christianity . " That the book details the ? progress of Christianity is most true , and most strange would k be Were it silent , a& T > r . W . holds , as to the chief points of that system whose progress it records . But we must be allowed to say , that we were surprised in reacting the assertion that the Acts presents no detail of the preaching of Christianity * Not , perhaps , of Dr .

    Whately ' s Christianity , but certainly of a Christianity which inspired Apostles set forth , and which converted thousands , and that not to the mere profession , but to the observance of Christianity . Would to God that the same effects could be recorded of the preaching- of Christianity , in whatever form , in these times , as we find to have followed the sermon of Peter , recorded in

    the second chapter of the Acts ! Whether or not Peter ^ s sermon contained all that was essential to be known , it went far to produce all tnafc was essential to be done ; and Dr . W . himself mayy P ernaps , be led to conclude that a good life is not a bad evidence of a ri g ht faith , tn the : third chapter of Acts we again find Peter engaged in preaching , and it is not a little strange if the apostle , under the influence of the Bbty Spfeftj kept baek even now the essential truths of the religion which he had v ^ l ! untarity « iidertakeh to recommend . Fragments of discourses occur in various tftfeei * t > 8 ft 8 o € the Acts , and if these

    do not contain the fundamentals df € hrfstianity afccOttiiBg to Dr . Whately , he will pardon us if we conclude gfcfit Ws dpim 8 h& 8 nd tfedse of Peter , John , aye , and of Paul , are some What at v ^ fiance * Having thus rejected as imperfect guides the Evangelists and the Acts , and passed over with a few words all tne other parts of the New Testament , Dr . W . proceeds to the study of Paul . He is the chief bulwark of the Christian faith : the other lights of the New Testament shine dimly by the side of him . We cannot but think that Paul himself would have rebuked the writer for

    his well-intentioned but injudicious efforts to elevate Paul at the expense of his associates , and even of his Master . To him , a § to the Corinthian church , he might have said , " For while one saith , I am of Paul , and another , I am ofApollos ; are ye not carnal ? Who then is Paufy and who is Apollos , but ministers by whom ye believed , even as the Lord gave to every man ?" Having been so long engaged in opposing the views of Dr . W . on a subject of no inconsiderable importance , we feel great pleasure in proceeding to a portion of his volume of which we can speak in terms of nigli satisfaction . J . K . BL ( To be continued . )

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    Whately * s Essays on the Huntings of St . Paul . 539

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/19/