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    he will enable him to do greater works than these ( than the miracles of healing , &c , which ttiey had already seen ) , that ye may marvel . For as the Father can restore life to the dead / ' ( we have no objection to Mr . B . ' s translation , ) " so also can the Son" ( namely , as just before stated , by the Father ' s communicated power ) " restore life t 6 whom he wilL" We cannot understand how this passage is reconciled with , much less can be made to prove the equality of Jesus with the Father , nor can we attribute Mr , B . ' s comment above given to a very impartial interpreter .

    We must repeat , however , in conclusion , that we ascribe all which we think fair criticism must condemn , to the force of prejudice , and to a hasty adoption of what others had asserted favourable to his system , not to artifice or wilful injustice ; and that in denying to our author the high merit of impartiality , which he so earnestly claims , we do not mean to question the general utility of his work . On the contrary , we strongly recommend it to our ministers , especially to the younger among them , and to other students of Scripture who possess the knowledge of Latin and Greek necessary for

    using it , as a cheap and valuable body of scriptural annotation . We trust that it will promote the just and rational interpretation of the New Testament , and thus , notwithstanding any prejudices or erroneous views and statements on particular subjects , essentially serve the cause of Christian truth . We desire to express our sense of the irrefragable truth and high importance of the principles of interpretation adopted , as well as of Mr . B . ' s qualifications for applying them , where the doctrines of his church do not immediately interfere ; and we shall hail with much pleasure the arrival of the concluding portion of his labours .

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    Art . TV . —Considerations on the Impolicy and Inexpediency of Imprisonment for Debt : in a Letter to the Right Hon . Robert Peel , M . P . By Thomas Danvers , Esq . 8 vo . pp . 36 . Simpkin and Marshal . 1826 . Every reflecting and humane mind is impressed with the present unsatisfactory state of the law as regards debtors in England . The subject is attended with great difficulties , —difficulties partly created by the law , and aggravated by the prejudices and passions of creditors . An appeal on this part of our jurisprudence could not have been made with more propriety to any one than to Mr . Peel , who has , we think we may say , surprised the

    liberal part of the public by his admirable measures in reform of our punitive law , and who has excited hopes in the breasts of all true lovers of their country of such further beneficial alterations in our commercial and criminal code , as shall make the statute-book conformable to the opinions and feelings of the more cultivated portion of the English people . We know nothing of Mr . Danvers , but he has written sensibly on this interesting topic , and his pamphlet is entitled to the more attention as he writes avowedly ( and we lament the fact ) from " a personal and practical experience of the evils ** which he points out .

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    Review . —Imprisonment for Debt . 61

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/61/