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He was succeeded by Mr , Philip Taylor , grandson to Dr . Taylor , who had been his assistant the last two ye&rs . In an extract of a letter from the latter , now before me , he says , •* Mr . BrekelFs congregation never distinctly understood what his real sentiments
were on doctrinal points , but I judged from his private conversation that he Was an Arian . My friend , Dr . Enfield , who , some years after his death , had access to his papers , however , told me that from them he could ascertain him
to have been , in fact , a Socinian . He passed with his people as an orthodox man ; and from an idea , then very prevalent among free-thinking ministers , he conceived it his duty not to endanger his usefulness among them by shocking their prejudices . "
Mr . Brekell , in conjunction with Dr . Enfield , compiled , in 1764 , € * A Collection of Psalms , proper for Christian Worship , in Three Parts , " which , with subsequent additions , was
used in both congregations till a very recent period , and was well known under the name of the Liverpool Collection . It contained a few anonymous original compositions by him , but of no remarkable merit . H . TAYLOR .
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24 Ben David , an the Mosaic Hisffiry of the Creation . m-
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Sir , TAKE the liberty of sending for I the Repository a few remarks on a late Sermon of Mr . Belsham ' s . If
the principles of that author were not well known , I should suspect that the discourse alluded to was the composition of some enemy of revelation in -disguise . But this cannot be thought of Mr . Belsham , whose talents have
ever been pre-eminently employed in promoting the knowledge and supporting the divine authority of the Scriptures , and whose character is an ornament to ins profession . His positions are , that the Pentateuch is not the composition tff Moses , but a compilation from more ancient
documeats ; that the Jewish lawgiver , in his account of the creation , while unexceptionable as a theologian , so far from beimj divinely inspired , isNonly a . retailer of ^ vulgar errors . The Jewish } c * bins . - ( '' . ' ' - . '
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nation , from | fee earliest age * to the present periodi ti ^ tve / I iwSl&te , tinlformiy attributed these bop&s to the pen of Moses ; and this , feitimony is indirectly confirmed by dirist and his apostles : nor does Mr . B . presume to invalidate the historical testimony to their authenticity . He rather grounds liis conclusions on internal evidence
alone ; but , surely , the internal evidence is decidedly against him . For the same characteristic qualities , the same unvarnished simplicity , the same easy and natural flow of sentiments and language , varying only with the nature of the subject , the same freedom from
that fiction and wilcjness which prevailed in the fabulous ages , the same unity of design and t ^ naency of each succeeding incident to establish that design , namely , the evidence and government of one God : —all these
unequivocally mark the Mosaic records , and lead us to consider them as the productions of one and the same author . The style and manner of Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophoa and Aristotle , are sufficiently peculiar yet these immortal writers by no means
supply a surer criterion of authenticity than can be discovered in the books of Moses . Where , then , is this internal evidence to be discovered ? In his account of the creation this divine author first calls God' Elohim ; in a second stage he styles him Jehovah Elohim ; in a third , Jehovah ; in a fourth ,
Elohim again . From these variations Mr . B . inters , that these several stages or portions must have been the writings of different authors . But surely no inference was ever so hasty and unfounded . If these several designations present any difficulty , this is cutting
the knot instead of untying it ; a solution unworthy of an enli g htened critic . But they do not ; and it remains to shew that Moses Taad an important end to answer by these different appellations . I do not here , pj ^ f ^ nd to be altogether origitial ^ but t aio not above receiving information when I can get it . Essenus , a treatise on the first
three chapters of Genesis , ascribed to Mr . Jones , speaks to this efifeet : — " In all languages many tirords exist which coh ^ y , Vitniter i plurality of ftrtrm , a Bingufer sigitffieatiWi . J ' StoM * ia oke ' pf ^ t ^ i ' ^ Utl ' - 'im fbr tWs peculiarity' ^ miiMjt ^ T ^ iBOi ^ c «»
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/24/
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