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BIBLICAL CRITICISM;
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To printing , &c . 35 , 000 copies of said sermon - 785 5 6 To balance due to Mr . Bowyer - - - - 784 0 0
They who know the character of this most amiable and excellent printer , will not be at ill surprised to hear , that , in a day or two , a letter to the following purport was forwarded to the clergyman :
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Appellations of our Saviour . Sin , July 12 , 1818 . IF you think the following observations , on the several appellations , T > y which the New Testament writers have designated our Saviour , as literally applied to him , worthy a place in your edifying Repository , you will oblige , by its insertion ,
PHILALETHES . Jestts is a Hebrew name , and signifies Saviour , " for he shallsave his people from their sins . " It was more desirable to man to be saved from his sins , than to obtain any other blessing : for his sins Were a bar to all favour
from God . " There shall no evil dwell with htm /* He is said to hate it 3 and he has shewn us how odious it IB in his , sight , by punishing it in this world , in its natural consequence ; the corruption it produces in our nature . But if we consider that man is
formed for another world— -that sin alone will shut him out from the presence of God ; we shall then see clearly the miserable condition of all the sons of Adam without a Saviour * And
how great and adorable the goodness of God in sending thq Saviour , that we might partake of the salvation he brought ! He was pur Saviour , in thri best sense of the word , for he revealed
to usi the way of salvation ; and sal ^ vation is the greatest of all the bles * stings of heaven . Men are said to save one another , when they shew them the way of extricating
themselves from difficulty . The first preachers of Christianity were said to save , those whom , by their preaching , they converted . Thus St . ftwil jex > hort » Timothy , by his diligence and conduct , to ' * save both himself aijdf them thai : heard him / 7 Now , in ibis
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«? Hev . Sir , ¦ : ¦¦¦ ; •>; ' ' " * I beg pardon for iniioceiitly amus ^ ing niyself at your expense , but you need not give yourself uneasiness ; I knew better than you could do the
extent of the sale ofsingle sermons , and accordingly printed but fifty Co * pies , to the expense of which you are heartily welcome , in retu ^ b for the liberty I have taken with yoq . *' &c . & . c .- —Sexaffenarianf I . 148—130 *
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sense , Jesus was eminently a Saviour * His gospel was rightly said to be " the power of God unto salvation ;" 1 Cor . i . 18 * If , then , those who inculcated the doctrines and precepts of
Christianity on the world , ma ( y be said to save those whom they convert , surely the author of those doctrines and precepts is indisputably entitled to the character of Saviour * in the
most glorious sense . But if this were all , it might have been objected , that some philosophers and some prophets among the Jews had done almost as much * But this wasr only one of his offices . The Heathens , in general , were grossly ignorant , and the Jews were grossly corrupt $ so here was , & great want of him as a divine teacher
of ijaercy The end of God ' s sending his Son iftto the world wast , that , through him , they might have " forgiveness of » ins . " We are redeemed , " not with corruptible things , as ;
sliver and gold ; " tiwse are the instruments by which men are delivered from bodily captivity ; 4 ( but with the precious blood of Christ * as of a Iamb without blemish and without ] spot , " Hence We read that there is no
salvation in any other , " for there is none other name under Ueay en , given among men , whereby we must be saved . " The name of Christ , which is of the same signification , % s with that of Messiah , dese ribeit this Saviour
still more particularly ; for Christ and Messiah both signify The Anointed . The reason for giving 6 ur Saviour thii name , was drawn from the ceremony of anointing m the Jewish church , which was used at the consecration of
kings , priests apd prophets . IJe ^ ibr deed , ^ a » hot anointed ^ as they yfer 6 p with oil , Wut wittil ^ ttie : hply spirit
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514 Biblical Crititismm—~ Appeltations of our Saviour .
Biblical Criticism;
BIBLICAL CRITICISM ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/42/
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