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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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Observations on the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard . Matt . xix . 30 ; xx . 1 — 17-P I ^ HE parables of Christ naturally JL arrange themselves under two
classes ; the prophetic , of which we have an example in the story of the grain of mustard seed , and the moral , of which that of the compassionate Samaritan is an instance . To which
of these divisions the parable of the " labourers in the vineyard belongs , has been made a question . According to Bishop Pearce , " the general intent of this parable , is to teach us that a man who came into the belief of the gospel , as soon as he was called , though it was late , would have the same reward as "" hei who came into it sooner . The virtue was in obeying the call , not in the time of the call , whether soon or late , which did not
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depend upon the man /** In the opinion of this Commentator then , our Lord here sets forth generally the case of individuals , who are admitted to the profession of Christianity at any period and in any country . But another writer thinks that " in
this parable the vineyard is the kingdom of heaven , into which God , the householder , hired the Jews early in the morning ; and into the same vineyard he hired the Centiles at the eleventh hour , or an hour before sun-set . " Taylor ' s Key , &c- No . LXXXIII , and J . Medes Works , No . 86 , ( 1677 ) .
To justify which interpretation a few arguments may be produced : 1 . Now , in the first place * the ob-* Comm . in loc . j see also Mr . Kenrick ' a Exposition .
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Biblical Criticism . —On Matt . xix . SO ; xx . 1- —17- 345
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No . CCCXLVIII . Saint Napoleon . A striking instance of the adulation
of the French Catholic clergy , has been exposed in the Chronique Religieme . After Napoleon ' s elevation to the throne , they raked up the name of an obscure saint , who had suffered martyrdom at Alexandria , under Diocietian . The legend of this saint , whose name occasioned his
resurrection to fame , was first published in the Paris Liturgic Calendar for 1807 , Saint Neopolis or Neopolns way called by the Italians of the middle age Napoleo , Napoleone . This was enough for the parasites . The saint was put into the Calendar under the
all-commanding name of Napoleon ; a day , the 15 th of August , was allotted to his festival ; and a religious service was drawn up for the occasion . —But , alas ! saints as well as sinners have their vicissitudes ; when the temporal Napoleon was driven from the throne , the spiritual Napoleon was withdrawn from the Calendar . The French are
keen observers , and it has been remarked on this little occurrence , that the order of the church was here inverted , and that the Saint was not the patron of the monarch , but the monarch the patron of the Saint .
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No . CCCXLVIL Preaching at and not to Jeivs . Mr . Evelyn , in his Diary of his Travels , just published in his Memoirs , 2 vols . 4 to ., says , under the head Rome , and the date Jan . 7 , 1645 , ( Vol . I . p . 124 , )
" A sermon was preached to the Jewes at Ponte Sisto , who are constrain'd to sit till the houre is don - but it is with so much malice in their countenances , spitting , hum'ing , coughing and motion , that it is almost impossible they should heare a word from the preacher . A conversion is very rare . "
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PLE ^ NINGS } OH , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING . No . CCCXLVI . Brilliant Vice . Lord Chesterfield says , very truly and in his happiest manner , [ Letters , Svo . If . l 63 , ] of the youths , especially those in fashionable life , who idopt vices as a distinction , These ooor mistaken people think they shine , % nd so they do indeed ; but it is as putrefaction shines , in the dark .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/35/
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