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have heard-- , " or which he hath spoken , " lest we should let them slip . " Our author , according to the argument or illustration contained in these five verses , has here
nothing to do with the superiority of the sonship of Jesus to that of those to whom he refers , nor does he at present intermeddle with such a subject . In addressing Jews , he very properly pleads , that Jesus had received the same name
which had been conferred upon their most admired and celebrated characters , and therefore he justly urges that Jesus as well as they had received a name above every name , —a name far above that of angels ? . " If this interpretation be as ... correct as the fundamental idea appears to me to be simple and iiatural v it- \ vi 11 furnish a v i -r : < j , - i ^ i '• . . .. . .. :
Poetry.
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Ode on the Death of a Friend . Not to the grave , not to the grave , my ppuj , ; Descend to contemplate Tbe Form thai once was dear ! feed not on ill oughts so loathly horrible ! The spirit : M not there Tha ^ jtoiadled that ofead eye , That thr 6 bV < i in that cold heart , That ia that lifeless hand
Has met thy friendly grasp . < -The spirit is not there L "is but lifeless , perishable flesh That moulders in the grave : Earth , air , ancf waters mingling particles , Now to their elements
Resolv'tl , their uses done . ^ ot to the grave , not to the grave , my soul , Follow thy friend belov'd , The spirit is not there . ° fje n together have we talk'd ® f death ; Wow sweet it were to see A | l doubtful things made clear 3
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strong and additional argument to convince every reflecting mind , that the three following verses , viz . 10 , 11 , 12 , cannot contain an address to Christ , ( there not being in any of them a single
word about Son , or first-boi-nword about oon , or nrst-bofn , or angel , ) but an address t < y his God and our God , —an address according to the manner of the apostles upon similar occasions * A studied endeavour to be full
and explicit , may have betrayed me into that prolixity and obscurity which I wished to avoid : how far I have succeeded , Sir , is for you , and if you think proper , for your readers , to judge . With due respect , I am , Sir , W , B . BEREAN .
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rHowr sweet it were with eyee , Such as the Cherubim , To viuw the depths of heav ? n « 0 ** ! thou hast first Begun the travel of eternity ; £ 1 gaze amid the starts - And think that thou art there , UnfetterM as the thought that follows theeJ And we Lave often said , how sweet it
were , With unseen ministry of angel power , To watch the friends we lov'd . * * we did not err ! Sure I have felt thy presence ! , thou hast giv ' n A birth to holy thoughts ,
Hast kept me from the world anstain'd and pure . * * did not err ! Our best affections here , They are not like the toys of infaixcy ^ The soul outgrows them not ; We dor not cast then * off : Oh ! if it could be go , It were indeed a dreadful thing to die !
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Poetry !—Ode on the Death of a Friend . > f \ 5 J
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/53/
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