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    3 26 fielsham ' s Summary View .

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    Art . II . —A Summary View of the Evidence and Practical Importance of the Christian Revelation , in a Series of Discourses addressed to young Persons , by Thomas Belsham , Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in Essex Street . Johnson * 1807 . pp . 204 , 8 vo .

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    cc laying open the hidden treasures of divine wisdom contained in the holy scriptures , much , " says Up . Lowth , cc hath been done ; and much still remains to lie done * : "—an observation par . ticularly applicable , we conceive , to the Writings of the Old Testament . ' The evidence of the Christian revelation from the testimony of the Jewish scriptures / ¦ which forms the subject of Mr . Belsham ' s fourth discourse , ( Luke xxir . 27 . ) will probably be found clearer and stronger in proportion as those scriptures arc accurately understood . cc cannot reasonably be doubted , " remark § our author , ( p . 110 ? ) u that the prophecies relating to the Messiah were correctly applied by our great instructor " . —We are fully of the same opinion : yet 5 from vari - ous causes , the argument from Jewish prophecy is st | ll involved in considerable obscurity .

    ? Visitation Sermon at Durham , * 7 5 S > PP- 3 3 > 24 > 2 nd E < 1 .

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    ment , would become an iiiteresfc ing and pleasing poem upon " Da-Tid ; » but it must be re-made and receive great additions of thought and facts before it can become a poem that does justice to the subject of " Sau P . R .

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    Frenzy and death throughout , the IJebrew past Lone and unhurt , from Gath ' s devoted walls . Upon the whole , we have no doubt but that the poem with considerable alteration and amend-

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    Mr . B . prefaces fits statement of this evidence with admirable ingenuousness and candour : — " I have no doubt , " he declares , ( pp . in . It 2 . ) " that there are ( some ) persons to whom the evidence of the dWine authority of the Christian religion from the prophecies of the Old Testament , is in the highest degree satisfactory and convincing . With regard to myself , I must confess that it does not convey to my own mind that clear , and , I can almost say , unhesitating assurance -which I derive from

    an attention to the philosophic , the historic , or the internal evidence . Not that I think the prophetic evidence is essentially defective . But I find it difficult to satisfy myself that I fully comprehend the true meaning and intent of the prophetic language . Upon the whole , however , I regard the evidence from the Old Testament as very considerable , and as calculated to make a strong and serious impression upon a candid , serious and intelligent mind ; and , in connection with the evidence already produced , it decisively establishes the truth and divine authority of the Christian religion . I now , therefore , proceed to exhibit that view of it which to my own apprehension is most satisfactory , and least liable to objection : and cavil ; and , in order to this , it must be proved , First , that the Hebrew nation was favoured with a revelation from God , —and Secondly , that

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/38/