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    to& , hQ ?« f th ^ jr # ^ M € ^ J * he .-to . isii ^ arked , * It is the most natural , and mirh a 3 « I should li ^ o—not as tpany who spend so much time in drinking wine ,

    which la below thp dignity of man t * asked ff Friends had any colleges for the education of their young men ; thought it would be better if they had ; and inquired if any went to Oxford or Cambridge if they would adopt the costume .

    " On taking leave of S . G ., he said , c Take my hand as a friend and a brother . I have had great satisfaction , in tfeda interview , and hope , when parted , we shall often think of each other . '

    " In giving this very interesting account S . & . said , no words could convey the fulness of his satisfaction in having ; paid this visit . I believe he may be truly called a Christian Prince . *'

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    & Tkm&kto m JoS iw \ y % ^ &kbi < z-mty Sta ) Htl < ttd . 703

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    Alhwich , Sir * September 5 , 1821 . THE second chapter of the pro phecy of Joel i § made to com

    oiefi ^ e , in our version , with the , following words and punctuation : — " BIqw ye the trumpet in Zion , and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land

    tremble ? for the day of the Lord cometb , for it is nigh at hand : a day of darkness and . of gloominess ,. a day of clouds and of thick darkness , as . the morning spread upon the mountains ; a great people and a strong ; there hath not been ever the like , neither shall be any more after it , even to the years of many generations . "

    Uf > on this passage I beg to observe , I . That instead of the colon after the words tremble and hand , the semicolon- should he used , as the subsequent clauses are too intimately cbfcnected with those which precede to admit the colon . 2 . The sentence should end at

    the word darkness in the second , verse , because cQ 0 ?{> lete sense fa formed at that word-. Wtet follows beg&is ano * ther sentence ; has an evident relation : to the great and strong people alluded to ; and & # <> rds arnoet beautiful simile respecting ; the rapid and universal spread orthe invaders . & The phrase

    <* a great people and a strong" hasi something clumsy i » it ; and it would be more agreeable with the idiom pf the ^ jpgfjish language to turn . it into—« ^ reffi ^ ttrtd strong peopt& . 4 . The word cnfj > rendered peopfe , denotes an < M 8 wia * e& * bocl y , and as-theeonnexiiw ^ clearly proves thut the prophet i » de ^

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    Cum tua praevideas oculis mala lippus inunctis , Cur in auiicorum vitiis tarn cernis acir * turn , Quam aut aquila , aut serpens Epidau- ^ rius ? Hor .

    Sir , Nov ' . 13 , 1821 . YOU hsive tiiought'it a wholesome practice to record occasionally the opinions of Orthodoxy . The following may not prove unacceptable to some of your readers . " In these matters I am so fearftil

    that I date not speak * farther j yea , almost none otherwise , than thet text doth ( us it were ) lead me 6 y the hand . " Martt / n's Letters . " If we set up these notions of our

    own as the standardqf * faith * and require a peremptory assent to all tjjb inferences whicH appear to flow from them , we quit t |? he true , the BEVEALED GOB , AND BETAKE

    OURSELVES TO THE H > 0 I » S OF OUR OWN brain . " @oplestwi on Predestination Had only ih& spirit of these two short periods been generalised and acted up to by tike diseiptes of Ohlfet ; wouPd tJhere have been an AthmMsum in Christendom ? Were theyW niW > wonM one Remain in Christendom & A RIBI ^ ON ^ y-CHJPSTI ^ < . * ¦ * * - - - - ...... . mmmmmtm ^ . ¦ ¦ - ' : .: * '

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    scribing the p * ogres ^ o £ an army < i £ locusts , soipe term should be tfised more significant than that adopted by our translators ^ for when plain En-.

    glfehcnen see the word people in tl ^ e text , they naturally conclude thart the prophet is in reaBty predicting the inarch of a pmieerful array of rational beings . With these remarks I desire

    respectfully to submit the follxmmg Version and punctuation to the consi deration of your readers : " Blow ye the trumpet in Zion , and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble ; for the dav of Jehovah J comes . tremble ; for the day of ehovah comes

    , for it approaches ; a day of darkness and of gtdoim , a day of clouds and of thick darkness . As the dawn , spreads Upon the mountains , so shall a great and . strong army : nothing has beeii Eke them from ancient times , neither shall any thing resemble them again through future ages . WILLIAM PROBERT .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/7/