On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
ei ^ teiaMBHKrtqft th ^ ugh . Uut ^ very imperfei % fi ^ nse of the passage . ^ * Cb . yi , g ;^ p ] e aj ? 8 iiame to hav e a diffe rent meaning from ^ that which is usually affixed * toi dfe > " The ^ ' wind Moweth where it listeth , and thou hearest the
saund thereofj but canst not tell whence | t camethand Whither it , goeth ; so is every one that is bora of the Spirit . ** Alt the . interpretations , I have seen , make the comparison to be between the Spirit and the wind , but that is surely not the plain sense of the words . I am inclined to interpret the passage
thus : As the wind blows where God directs , without regard to the wishes of man , so every one that is born of the Spirit must be open in his avowal and promulgation of what he believes to be the truth of God , without regard to the opposition he may meet with from men . At the same time he must
be gentle and peaceable , of a character quite different from what the Jews expect the followers of the Messiah to be . He , is not to ; be engaged in promoting the kingdom of the Christ by means of war ^ but solely by argu +-ment and by the exhibition of those
miraculotis powers . which will be afforded him * and on account of which he is said to be bora of the Spirit . la interpreting the rest of this difficult passage , the reader will be very much assisted by the excellent remarks upon it in the first volume of Mr . Cappe ' s Critical Dissertations . In the fourth
aud fifth volumes of the Theological Repository is a series of essays , which has not , I , think , been sufficiently attended to , on the mission of John the Baptist , signed Christophilus . They are bv the late excellent and ' ill-used Mr . Fyshe Palmer , and , I think ,
contain a venr satisfactory proof that Jolui the Baptist did not know that Jesus was the , Christ , but only that , he was a prophet rauch superior to himself . hi beg leave to recommend them % o ; thte careful perusal and candid attention of your readers . .- , ¦ * > , .-a , ' -T . Q > M . J-
Untitled Article
was * , crowded to ieXGe 8 ^ . ^ s : Afe $ lfee * o ' clock Mr ; ^ JeflFrey ei& erted ^ and mm received with the loudest jshoute , of applause , and with every demonstration of respect and ^ attachment . Mn J&fftey was accompanied by Mi \ < Jamp ~ ¦?
bell of Blyth&tJirotod ^ JM . B «* © 6 an oi Faculty , the Principal and PuofessiUJS of the University , Mr . K . . FSnlay , ( late Re <; tor , ) and by Messrs . Thomson * Cockburn ^ and : J ^ A . Mu ^ ray Advocates , Professor Pillans , and several
other gentlemen ; who had gone with Mr . Jeffrey from Edinburgh . —Afte the installation Mr . Jeffrey : addressed the audience in a speech . which called
forth reiterated shouts of applause ^ and of which , we are now fortunately enabled to gratify our readers with a much more accurate report than any that has hitherto been published .
It will easily be understood that this is to me a moment Of great pride and gratification . But I feel that it is also a moment of no little emotion and disturbance ; and on an occasion where Burke is reported . to have faltered , and Adam Smith to have
remained silent , it may probably be thought that 1 should have best consulted both my fame and my comfort if I had followed the latter example ? . It is impossible , however , not to feel > that in the case of that eminent person , and of many others who have ,, since conducted themselves in the same
manner , the honour they conferred on the University nearly compensated tha £ which they had received from . it—^ and they might not , therefore , feel any very strong call to express their sense of an
obligation which was almost repaid by its acceptance . On the present occasion , no one can feel niore intimately —no one , indeedi so intimately as I do , that ; the obligation , is ail on one sidejiaad ^ that the ^ whol&iOf thQ < honour ijs that which is done to me . X eanno *
help feeling , therj&foii * , v »» rf & should i foe * , chargeable wifrfe ^ i ^ icratitUide , if I tuMfcrei to leave to- , be inferred fronismy ! ftite » ae tliose $ entiuuent ; s to which A ai ^ > ab un d » nl % : ^ w ^ j : e I shft . l l do littfe iusjiike -by- ' . m « -j « ro ) c ! dku / ; ,
, Inende ^ vo ^ ridg * hpwfcver * $ o express the sense I h $ m ofl $ kfy yery fgreat mtA uuexp ^ Qited db ^ n ^ tioii that 4 * as b ^^ a ounferji ^ jl io % tm e ^ jj WUfctobs pe * TOHjfe ^ i t ^ i / toy ^ tUat ^ jj ^ M yoij M itfiwerj ^ dtfwg tjti ^ t aauld re « Hkfeft «^ ^ QTO W / tflfo-
Untitled Article
Mr . Jeffreys Installation \ Sp&ebh \ [ Froix ^ ^ J ^ Seaman otifm , 6 ^ "! ' ! ON TJi ^ j ^ d ^ y g ^ fiuwgh t , Mr > nJt ^ fflvev ww ins talled Lord Bector ° f the . IMversity oi , GU&gow . The wemQn ^ e > xcit ^ a an uinjdual degree ° * ^ ter ^ stj ^ jfimdin a few jninutes » ft ^ r the dopjjsi ( wwQ thrown Qpen , the Hall T fc
Untitled Article
Mr , JdFmpUImtdllutian ^^ ee ^ k Mt
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/19/
-