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to any of your correspondents , who , being acquainted with the circumstances in which this discourse was composed , delivered and published , will have the goodness to communicate some history of it , in your pages . It is a very animated an $ pious sermon , from Rom * viii . 35 , 3 / : in the progress of it , the preacher avows his cordial attachment to the cause of
Protestantism , and to "The Glorious Revolution / ' adverts to th 6 war then raging on the continent of Europe , and to the state and dangers of the country * and takes occasion to recommend a more numerous
attendance at the Lord ' s Supper , in the church of the University . From the preface and the notes it clearly appears , that some things which he said were subjects of animadversion , and even of severe censure : what
these were , however , is not stated ; though we may justly conclude , that the discourse was not quite so 4 < well received" as the rest of his single sermons . With the author of his
text , Dr . Kennicott could , no doubt , ask , i € Do I seek to please men V and , with him , could add , ' * If I yet pleased men , 1 should not be the servant of Christ . " *
The late Rev . George Walker , having undertaken to supply the pulpit at Salters' Hall , on March 24 , 1793 , delivered a discourse from Heb . xii . 3 , on Christian Fortitude : the sermon ** " appeared to have given offence to a few of the hearers : " and " this ofat t % / m . * . « ^ ij * x- »» « wa « j
., ^»* w v ^ -v m ^^ ^^ w . % - * ^ m v mm m *** ^ s » fence they were pleased to signify in a singular manner , by a very abrupt departure in the midst of the service , and without waiting to judge of the design of the preacher / ' Mr .
Walker , like Dr . Kennicott , published the discourse , injustice to himself ; -f nor does it contain -any thing , which a Christian , a Protestant , and a , Protestant Nonconformist can reasonably arraign . Some allusions , however , there are to the awful contest then
exhibited on the theatre of Europe , and some very seasonable admonitions to the exercise of that religious courage , of which many professqrs of the gospel neither understand the nature nor feel the obligation . GaL i . 10 . t Sermons , by G . Walker . IV . p . 281 .
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Thus . for therefore we perceive a remarkable coincidence in the situation , the views , the feelings and the conduct of Dr . Kennicott aod of Mr . Walker . To point it out , has been a
pleasing , and , I trust , a salutary , employment . The Christian spirit ' wherever , and in whomsoever , it exists , is ' the spirit not of fear , but of power , of love , and of a sound mind . " N .
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Liverpool , Sir , Nov . 12 , 1823 . HAVING lately looked a good deal into the work of Schoettgenius , referred to by Mr . Gurney , as related by your correspondent E . ( p .
590 , ) I beg leave to state that as far as I have been able to observe , that learned writer does not quote any one passage from the book Sohar or from any other book , such as Mr . Gurney ( if your correspondent did not mistake his meraning ) pretends to have derived from him . It is true that
Schoettgenius has endeavoured to prove that all the names enumerated by Mr . G ., as well as several others , were ascribed b y the Jews to their expected Messiah , for which purpose he has produced passages from various Jewish writers , and especially
from the book Sohar , but I cannot think very highly of the success of his endeavours . That your readers may be able to judge of his manner , and of the general value of his reasoning , 1 will quote what he 8 ays of the name Jehobah , the first on Mr ,
Gurney ' s list , and offer a few observations on it . Book I . Chap . i . p . 4 , This essential name of God is attributed to the Messiah , Jerem . xxiii . 6 , on which place see what is said Book II .
Sohar on Deuteron . fol . 119 , col . 4 / 3 : " Elsewhere the doctors of traditions have taught that the temple and name of the Messiah are expressed by the nomen tetragrammaton , " i . e . Jehovah * Sohar on E < vod . fol . 21 , col . 83 , on the words Exod . xiii . 21 ,
" And the Lord went before them /' The words are explained , of the Matron and the Angel of the Covenant , which , namea we shall shew hereafter to belong to the Messiah . Midrasch Tehillira on . Ps . cvii . h fol . 40 , coL 1 , remarking on Isaiah
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646 Mr . Hinchi on Jewish Titles of the Messiah .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/30/
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