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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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Biblical Critichm * —dliaraeter drawn by Paul , Rom . vii . GSQ
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Character drawn by Paul , Rom . vii . Sir , Bridport , July 13 , ! 818 . IF you think the following observations , on the character drawn by the apostle Paul in the 7 th chapter of his Epistle to the Romans , calculated
to correct prevailing mistakes , and to convey just sentiments respecting men ' s final acceptance with God , or the terms of salvation , they are very much at your service for insertion in your useful Repository .
THOMAS HOWE . Close attention , an intimate acquaintance with the language of Moses and the prophets , an accurate knowledge of the various rites and ceremonies , manners and customs of the
Jews , and of the controversies agitated among the first converts to Christianity , are requisite to the understanding of many parts of the apostolic epistles . The peculiar sentiments of that eminent Reformer , Calvin , the head of a considerable sect called after his name ,
are chiefly founded on the fhraseologij of these epistles : when this , however , is compared with that of the Old Testament , and innumerable plain declarations of sacred Scripture , they will appear , I believe , to the impartial examiner , to contain no such doctrines .
For instance , they speak of some being called , elected , redeemed , bought and purchased , but these same terms were previously applied to the Israelites . It must mean therefore , a calling , election , redemption and purchase , not of individual persons , by a sovereign decree of the Almighty , to
eternal life , but of whole bodies of men , believing Jews and Gentiles , to the enjoyment of certain religious privileges , all of them united under Christ , their common head . The Jews were called and elected to the blessings of the Mosaic dispensation , and Christians are called and elected to the more valuable blessings of the new
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covenant of the gospel . Their future happiness or punishment depends on their improvement or misuse of their peculiar privileges . * 'God is no respecter of persons , but will hereafter
judge all men by Jesus Christ , according to the deeds done in the body , whether good or evil , " taking into the account the respective situations and circumstances of each individual .
Paul not only adopted in his writings to Christians , the phraseology of the Jewish Scriptures , with which he was conversant , but also those strong and bold figures of speech by which the most energetic and glowing eloquence is characterized . An instance of this kind is to be found in the 7 th
chapter of his epistle to the Romans , which it is the principal design of this paper to explain and illustrate , with a view to guard religious professors against the injurious tendency of the opinion , that the apostle there speaks in his own person . To establish the
reverse , needs not the sanction of judicious commentators which may be produced , nor any acuteness of criticism , but the exercise merely of plain common sense , in comparing the description therein given , with the
constituent qualities of a truly virtuous character , arid the language of the apostle when he really speaks in his own person . In the 9 th verse , he personifies one who lived before the Mosaic law was given : " I was alive without the law once . " He then
supposes this man to become acquainted with this law , to the disobedience of which death is affixed : " but when the law came , sin revived and I died . * His passions prompt him to vicious practices , while the law and his conscience condemn him for his
compliance . The little kingdom within , is in a state of confusion and anarchy , riot and unrestrained outrage * The man who has this dreadful yvar in his
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No . CCCXXXIX . Royal Distinction , 46 Vestis virum facit * " is a saying , which some follow scrupulously to the letter , but we once had a prince who thought more sagely on these matters . The Earl of Warwick asked
Henry VI . why it pleased his Majesty to go so meanly attired ? The King answered—** It beseems a king to excel his , subjects in virtue , not in vesture "
Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/29/
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