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cette partie de son travail pour le moment de V impression . La rnorfc \ h empeche " de s ' y livrer . Tous ces manuscrits sont en bon e * tat et font I unique espeYance de la veuve et des deux jeunes enfana de Tissot . Puissent-ils recueiller un jour ,
de la justice des homines dignes de ce beau titre de la reconnaissance des veritables Jesuens , les avantages et la gloire qu' un travail de cette nature promettait a leur epbux et pfere ! C ' est le vceu qu ' exprime en terininant cette note le plus sincere et le dernier ami de Pascal Aleoeandre Tissot . THI ^ BAUT DE BERNEAUD
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publicity , and accordingly Samuel , in his own language , it may be pre * " sumed , though expressing the will of heaven , denounced the offender thus f * Thy kingdom shall not continue . The Lord h ^ th sought him a man after his own heart , and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people . "
There is no rule of construction better established than that the meaning of any passage in the sacred volume , as in all others , of dubious import , is to be sought in , and confined to , the subject treated of , —to what , in more homely phraseology , may be termed the matter in hand .
At the time of this denunciation , David was a youth , and had not betrayed any propensity to evil . He was selected by the Almighty , who <( sees the fruit in the blossom , " as an efficient instrument to uphold , and
preserve inviolate , the establishment and ordinances of the Jewish religion . This is what God maybe said , without irreverence , to have set his heart upon , as was fully comprehended by the prophet , who , in describing the future king of Israel as a man after
God ' s own heart , adverted , not to his moral character , still to be developed , but to his anticipated and contrasted zeal for the sanctions framed against idolatry , manifest in the strict , undeviating conformity observed by himself , and exacted by his people , to all
the divine ordinances of that religion ; one of the most important of which had been slighted by the reigning monarch , who was soon to experience the consequences of an offence , which appears to have ranked at that period with the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit in after-times .
In this unsophisticated view of our subject , what is there in the prophet ' s designation of the successor or Saul at all repugnant to th * e honour of God , to the divine consistency , to his abhorrence of any crimes which David might eventually commit , —what , to justify the sarcasms of unbelievers so
plentifully engendered by this famous passage ? In the paramount article of an unrelaxing zeal for the worship of the true and only God , and for the ordinances by which it was to be conducted and distinguished , under the inspection , as it were , of idolatrous nations , —ordinances , the neglect ot
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626 Brief Notes dn the ) Bibiel No . XXIII .
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Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XXIII . € i The Lord hath sought him a uian after his own heart . "—1 Sam . xiii . 14 , THERE is not , perhaps , any passage in the Bible more generally misconceived than this .
It is a solitary passage , unsupported by any corresponding one . We learn from the history that the Almighty had set apart and insulated the Jewish nation , surrounded by idolaters , as the visible depository of his divine truth , of the precious knowledge of the absolute and indivisible
unity of God . In accordance with this purpose , all the institutions and ordinances of religion were held of primary importance , and their strictest observance indispensable . No quarter , if so familiar , though intelligible , a phrase be allowable , was conceded to the violation of them .
What were the facts ? In a great emergency , when the Israelites were apprehensive of being crushed by the Philistines , Saul had waited impatiently for Samuel , the ordained prophet , to minister at the altar , and solicit a communication of the Divine
will in the apparently desperate state of their affairs . The prophet was behind his appointment ; and the monarch , as such potentates are apt to be , feeling a little sore at what he might think a personal disrespect , had
the temerity to offer the sacrifice himself , in defiance of hia recognized exclusion from that holy office . This , however , was a profanation not to be endured ; it required a chastisement that should arrest attention by its
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/10/
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