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aside * , ; . \ As' ¦ Ma ' r * J ? s *\* letter of th « Mosaic lajy ay ; frils f and \ i % i §\ dangerous to depend upon any-. thiftg else , Mr * C . is successful . The figurative interpretation of the Mi'hole ., of the > Old Tejstaraent would reduce jt to a mere book of poetry . /
The Jews in ^ this country , we learn from thv work before us * ' % ¦ - ¦ ¦ .. ' ' ¦ . ¦' - ¦ ' ' * look with no favourable eye upap * the Grand Sanhedrim , They complain especially of the new . law < if i nte . r- marriagest w h i ch they consider as overturning their religion . , Tiie ^ attempt to prove Buonaparte -to be the Messiah , must , says out author , " make
t , he Emperor himself smile , when he recollects the stumbling :, Mock to his divine mission which he experienced at A % re , in his attack on Palestine , to recover the pro - mised land . ' ? " Now ftJierefoiie ( Mr . C , concludes , )
if the Sank ^ drim have done tru ly and sincerely in that whpch they have undertaken for the house of Israel , then let them , rejoice in Buonaparte , and let Buonaparte rejoice in them ; or , else let fire come out from Buonaparte and desaoy the Sanhedrim . Judges 9 . " p . 36 . 1 he author alludes to the attempts of the Missionary Society
to entice his brethren from their religion , and says that they have inveigled ' only two of fhree individuals , who have been i € well paid" for their-eonvjursioo . Withdraw , he says , nil worldly benefits , and the sincerity of these Changelings will soon be discovered . In common with all Jews , t ^ is Writer erroneously considers the
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truth ' of Chnstianity as ssynoni * raous with the JHv % nity of Jesus of Nazareth . He . shews that Jesus cannot be received as God in consistency with the law of Moses ; nar indeed , he adds , as a prophet , for the Christian faith dispenses with the eternal " \ vitn <^ sses of the
covenant ^ civourocibion and sabbath , " Rut it behove ^ . the Jew § to reflect that the Nevv Testa - ment * which is the only rule of
Christian belief and practice , teaches no other god than the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , and enjoins nothing inconsistent with > ^ the jews ' re taining their
peculiarities and observing their ritual to * the en 4 of time . On this subject they would do well to consult Dr . Priestley ' s Letters to their nation .
Mr . Cohen states in a postscript ^* that the arts and sciences are not sufficiently encouraged among the Jews . He himself , at a great e ^ xppnsc , and with much labour , began to construct
a machine for facilitating mowing and reaping ; but failing in his e . xpectatious of support JYoui * the I ' puFent of his people , " he was obliged to drop the sclicme altogether . Vie acknowledges
however , < c the noble oft'r of his Grace the Duke of Bedford , ' * 0 / -bearing him out in 4 ; the whole expense . " He rec ommends the institution of a Jewish society for the on ; eo < iraeemertt of arts and
spjences , " a measure whicl ^ would ( yve adnrit , ) redound % o the ho ^ no . ur of , that nation . '
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Review . —Cofen y s Sacred Truths , $ c . 333
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/41/
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