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    specifying and dwelling upon , amongst many which are mentioned , the character of God , the intelligibility of our faith , its practical nature , and the progressiveness of Christian attainments , of which last he says , The course of virtue is ever onward and upward . It may be begun in humiliation , in tears , in

    confession , in penitence ; it leads on through the active and passive virtues of our condition in life ; it mounts from one attainment to another ; from light to light ; from grace to grace ; from hope to hope ; from strength to strength ; and aspires at last to the holiness aud happiness of sainted perfection . "—P . 27 .

    It is the excellence of this discourse , and a great excellence it is , that the tone and spirit of the whole composition are in unison with the argument , and constitute in themselves a distinct and cogent refutation of the position against which the author ' s reasonings are directed .

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    Art . HI . —Letters to the Jews ; particularly addressed to Mr . Levy , of Florida , with a Copy of a Speech , said to have been delivered by him < tt a Meeting of Christians and Jews , at London , in Muy 9 1828 . By Thomas Thrush , late a Captain in the Royal Navy . Longman and Co . 182 y .

    The times in which we live have witnessed the ardent and successful efforts of warriors by profession to promote the arts and diffuse the blessings of peace ; aud the little work which we are about to notice affords another exemplification of this principle . Mr . Thrush , indeed , has discovered a rare exhibition of the

    power of conscience in throwing up a commission , no longer deemed by him consistent with the spirit of religion ; and for this sacrifice of interest to integrity , every one , whatever be his opiniou of the reasons which led to this determination , pug / it to cherish a sentiment of the profoundest respect .

    Our readers have , ou several occasions , been directed to the sensible and manly defences of important religious truth for which we have been indebted to this gentleman ; and we have now to introduce to their notice his last ;

    publication , which discovers at once an intimate acquaintance with the contents of Scripture , a just attachment to the fundamental principles of religion , and a benevolent desire to extend the advantages of knowledge , which he himself

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    enjoys , to a hitherto proscribed class of our fellow-men . Nothing appears clearer to our minds than this , that if the Jews are to be Christianized , they must be made Christians by the Unitarians . The Trinitarians have erected a barrier between themselves and the Israelites , which the experience of a great number of centuries has proved they cannot , they dare not pass over . We admire the zeal of bur Trinitarian brethren in their efforts to

    lead others to receive what they believe to be the truth . With those whose first impressions are favourable to their oWn conceptions they can easily succeed % but they cannot succeed with those whose early education is altogether opposed to a reception of their peculiar dogma . The number of Unitarians who have ever become Trinitarian is perfectly insignificant ; and this is equally true of Jews aud Christians . There is a solemn and

    impressive power in the oft-repeated language of Holy Scripture concerning the unity of God , which , when once considered as it ought , can scarcely ever afterwards lose its hold upon the mind . Nor do we think that the Jew would make any progress in just conception

    concerning God , or purity in the mode of worshiping him , who , with the strong declarations of God ' s spirituality and immensity to be met with in the Scriptures , should accede to the opinion of one of those who replied to our venerable Lindsey , * . -

    " The world , merged in idolatry at the time of his [ God ' s ] incarnation , was mercifully indulged with an object of sense , to whom , even by the exertion of the same faculties by which they had adopted and adored idols , they could prefer worship without the imputation of idolatry . " We know not if the following passage

    may not seem an important suggestion to those who , satisfied of the general duty , are anxious only as to the means by which they may effect the ep 4 of the conversion of Heathen nations * " Mr . Faber . infers , from various prophecies of Isala ) i , that the converted Jews are destined , in the unsearchable wisdom of God , to be the finally successful missionaries to the Gentile world ; and he assigns this as the cause of the failure of missionary exertions among Pagan nations . " f

    ? Dr . Burgh , quoted by Thrush , p . § , tP 4 » ,

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    Critical Notices . 569

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 569, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/49/