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      In these versus oar Saviour proceeds to point out another instance , in which the Scribes and Pharisees diminished the value of the Mosaic precepts , by limiting their extent , and neglecting the

      dispositions which lead to sin . — " Ye lire informed by your teach * ors that it was said lo those of old time , thou shalt not commit adultery ; and here they stop : they limit the law in its application ; still more , they do not go to the seat of the evil , and curb those impure desires from 'which actual crime proceeds . But such is not the morality I enjoin ; I say utito you , that he uho ?« - di ^ lgefh irtipure desire * hath &frihi ~ * : d himself ivith the guilt of actual

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      In order to give my individual testimony to the favourable disposition of my brethreitj towards ihe East Indian mission , I shall with great picas u re " cast my mite into the treasury , ' which 1

      hope will anuuaHyaugmcnt , would any agent , of ; the iuhd honour me with a ? call . - I ara , Sir , Your humble . servant * - \ V . SEVERN . ' I 4 I .

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      Crime . - — 'Tis a rigkl but benevolent : ¦ morality . It checks the evil , where it is easiest ;« wlWe almost alone possible , effectually to check it ; it checks the formation ^ of criminal desire . He who indulges impure desire , either only waits for opportunity , or is acting the part <> i a madman , rashly triflinnr with what will * be his

      r . Consider the view which our Lord gives us , of the criminality of fostering tho ^ e desires whicU lead to sin , simplv as necc&sa $ v

      to prc ? scrvc * frbm ' sinful-acts , it * s wisely benevolent : far what > is the too generally 6 bst * rved CQtix : s <* r criminul desire indulge ^ - ; : < 'heightened beyond what at iirst > w ^ uM

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      Practical Rcmarfcs on JSiatthczs * v « r . 27 i-. S 8 « ^ € ^

      Biblical Criticism.

      BIBLICAL CRITICISM .

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      sir , Exeter , March , 1808 . Regarding it as the primary object of the Repository , to further the cause of Christian truth

      and practice , I solicit your insertion of the following practical thoughts , on a subject of the fir ^ t importance to the young . I solicit it , because they nr-iy \!> us fiud their way among ma : iy 5 who

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      would not perhnps have an opportunity of perusing them in ; t different form . If they bJiould appear to your readers calculated

      to produce the effects I have in view , I doubt not that the insertion of them wilL require no jus * tification . I . am , Sir ^ Yuiu ' s with respect , L . C-

      PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MATT . V . 27 , 23 * 0

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/37/