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was merely to put to the test the man ' s faith , sincerity and devotion . This part of Abraham ' s history naturally gave rise to the proverb , ver . 14 ., " In the mount of the Lord it 1
shall be seen ;' that is , as I understand it , dark providences and heavy trials shall all be cleared up and explained to those who , like Abraham , rise to God in the path of duty , and where the cloud seems most awfully dark and threatening , the believer has
only to press on and mount upwards , the path lies before him ; while in the plains and all below him , fogs , darkness , obscurity and dangers , abound , on the mount of God , light , truth , deliverance , triumph and glory , reside : Jehovah-Jireh — all is right . Pardon this digression .
In the 26 th chap , and 25 th ver ., we read that " Isaac built an altar at Beersheba , where God appeared to him , and there called upon the name of the Lord . " No account here of any sacrifice ; this altar therefore , was a pillar of memorial ; such plainly was the stone at Bethel , Gen . xxviii . ver .
18 ., raised by Jacob in memory of his vision at that place . In Gen . xxxi . 51 , and connexion , is another instance of a covenant accompanied by memorials , a sacrifice and a feast upon mount Gilead ; here is no sinoffering , nothing alluded to of a typical nature : it was a covenant sacrifice
of peace , a family feast of reconciliation , an act of thanksgiving to God by the parties . At the end of chap . xxxiii . of Gen . another instance of
these altars , pillars erected by Jacob on his newly-purchased ground , a memorial of his right to the possession and an expression of his gratitude to God . Such also evidently , was that altar recorded , Gen . xxxv .
in ., « I Wi ]] make at Bethel an altar to God who appeared to me in the day of my distress . " Accordingly we are told , ver . 7 ., that he built an altar , « c . because there God appeared to inm . Again , ver . I 4 . " And Jacob
^ P a pillar in the place where ** od talked with him , even a pillar ° ' stone , and he poured a drink-offering thereon , and he poured oil thereon . " Ams pillar then , was an altar , an expression and memorial of the patriareas devotion and gratitude . Gen . T \? " lsrael took ni » journey to sm ^ i * £ * in ^ yp ^ - iUne to Beersbeba and offered sacri-
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fices to the God of his father Isaac . " Here is plainly reference to former , not future events . Jacob had found his long-lost sou , his sacrifices were expressions of gratitude , dependence and devotion , they were offered to the
God of his father Isaac , that God who appeared to him many years before at this place , when he was leaving that good father , where he vowed ( chap , xxviii . ver . 20 ) , saying , " If God will be with me and will
keep me in this way that I go , and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on , so that I come again to my father * s house in peace , then shall the Lord be my God , and this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be
God ' s house , and of aJl that thou shait give me , I will surely give the tenth unto thee . 17 The patriarch had now revisited the place , after many years absence and many afflictions , and his beloved Joseph was yet alive . This is the last account we have of
sacrifice in the book of Genesis , and I think that your enlightened and unprejudiced readers will see that there is not one instance of a sacrifice typical of any thing future , nor of one
sinoffering , or expiatory sacrifice , in the whole book ; so that from the creation to the flood , and from the flood to the death of Jacob and of Joseph , " and of all his brethren and all that
generation , " there is neither precept nor example , recommending any such thing y nor is there the most remote intimation , that such an idea had entered the heads of any of those men
whose lives and actions are recorded in that history . Typical sacrifices offered by the patriarchs are the inventions of schoolmen , to support the profitable dreams of fanatics- B . S . [ To be continued . ]
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Dr . Toulmiris Correction of a Mis-statement hi Vol . IX . p . 266 . 91
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Sir , Birmingham , Feb . 4 , 1815 * " fTlHE Supplementary Particu-JL lars" to the " Historical Account of the Students educated at
Warrington , " which you favoured with a place in your interesting Miscellany of last December , [ IX . 771 . ] should have been accompanied with the following article ; but it escaped my attention at the time : you will permit it to offer itself for a corner in a
* We shall be oblig-ed to our Correspondent to favour us with the continuation as early as possible . Ed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/27/
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