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would not wish the person , from whom h $ implores aid , to see , least he should demand that in pledge , and either , if denied , reruse relief , or , by tearing away this almost sacred retac , to which
his heart clings , embitter his distress . No , says the law , the hovel of the poor ' man must be sacred as aa holy asylum : the eye of scorn and the foot of pride must
not dare to intrude ; even the agent of mercy rtiust not enter it abruptly , and unhid , [ unhide den ] without consulting the feelings of its wretched inhabitant . * Thou shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge ; thou shalt
stand abroad ^ and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring put the pledge abroad untoihee" * As a scriptural critic , the author is seldom to be praised . In the words , < Prepare to meet thy
God , O Israel / he sees a description of the general judgment ; although the content restricts the meaning to a great national affliction . * Interpreting the second psalm , he lays unwarrantable stress on the use of " the
very word Messiah , " \ x \ the Chaldee Targum , and on that of the term Christ in the LXX : nor does he consider that this name is frequently applied , in the Old
Tpstoraent , to ; other persons and objects than the founder of Christiaoity We are not tiQ \ y inquiring i | £ to t& $ reference of this psalm , tyU simply stating what we believe
Of tjie notes many are inconve-^ ntly Jong ^ and would . * with more propriety , bav ^ been placed W ^ apjpepidixv Nor is Dr ; GJs artangem ^ u ^ of Jus m ate rials in . yariably n \ ethodicail and
perspicu-^ Amos , it , 1 % .
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ous . We have been sensible of the same defect in reading thte publications of other learned members of Dublin- College . In the style there are several in . stances of negWgence , It often
bespeaks an unpractised writer and fails in correctness and precision , and so frequent and so glaring are the errors in the punctuation , that we can hardly suppose them to have been printed under the eye of Dr . Graves .
But , when every deduction has been made , these Lectures must be pronounced , after all , highly valuable . We wish that they maj be widely circulated and grate .
fully received * Perhaps , however , the y would be at once more po . pular and more useful , were they re-published in a different form , and reduced within a smallercora-DflSfi . . n ' nn ¦
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Art . IK An Address to the Deity . In Three P&rts . By William Johnston . l 2 mo ; pp . 76 * Johnson and Co *
This is a poetical paraphrase of the Lord ' s Prayer . The form of poetry was chosen , we apprehend , b y the trbly respectable author , ( m minister amongst the Protestant Dissenters , ) for the sake only of communicating more widely
and acceptably the ennobling sentiments of Christian philosophy * He has succeeded in stating them perspicuously and in urging them forcibly and impressivel y * We tnink that no one can read the Poenij in a spirit of seriousness , without feel * ing his devotion quickened by the
perusal . The author has inscribed the volume , in a neat Dedicatiott * to his brother Mr * Bbentzer John ston <
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\ 7 G % Jlctifetu . — Johnston ' s Address to the Deity * 1 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/48/
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