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is said by oiir Jtiard an < V his dis ^ fc pies to co ^ ist ln RJEPJENTANCJE * FAITH , and yi ^ IQBTMESS OF LIFE ; LOVE TQ GOD and OHA . RITY TO MAN . Here is tke
groundwork on which the spiritual temple is to be raised for the reception of heaven in man ; ye are the temph of God . ^ liEPBNTANCE whereby we forsake sin , and : FAITH whereby
we steadfastly believe the promises of God / which * if it be a genuine faith , will produce a life in conformity thereto , a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man .
" Unlike all the churches which preceded , the Christian church was not to be a representative church ; no types , no figures were necessary , whea the great founder of our religion made his appearance . He came to abolish the sacrifices and ceremonies of the
Jews , which were all representative of him the GREAT SACRIFICE ; and to shew man that the sacrifice of a contrite and broken spirit , opera * ling in a life agreeably to the commands of God , is the most acceptably sacrifice to him . Wherewith shall I
come before the Lord > and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt ~ offerings and calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams ? or with ten thousand rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my
transgression , the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul ? He hath shewed thee , O Man , what is good ; and ivhat doth the Lord require of thee 9 but to do justly , and to love mercy , and to walk humbly with thy God ? This is summed up in those ever-memorable words of the
Christian Redeemer , which comprehend the substance of true religion : Matt , xxii , 37 , 39 : * Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all th y heart and with ( ill thy soul and with all thy mind : Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself '" ^ b * If the reader is not contented
herewith , let him further turn to Mr , Bellamy ' s short but able answer to Lev i in proof of Christ being the true Messiah , pp . 323—367 , of the same work , which is only an echo to the sentiments perpetually recurring in the notes to his new translation . Having thus stated the reasons which lead me to conclude that Mr .
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Home laboured under a heavy ibis ^ take w ^ en imputing to Mr . Joha Bellamy the obnoxious assertion above alluded to ,-1 might pass ob to the
consideration of his worthy coadjutor the Baronet , did I not conceive that having once introduced Mr . I 5 ellanay so pointedly to your readers , a brief eoiuaeration of his controversial tracts
might not be unacceptable here . If I am not in error ( and more than one of your correspondents can set me to rights if I be ) , Mr . Bellamy ' s first polemical writing of any note (
independent of his criticisms in the Classical Journal ) consisted of letters under the signature of * ' Biblicus / ' addressed in conjunction with those of Vin ? dew and Candidus , to the Rev . G .
D'Oyly , then Christian Advocate of Cambridge , in answer to his second attack on the ( Edipus Judaicus of Sir William Drummond , who , himself , furnished a preface thereto , which exhibits one of the happiest specimens of irony extant in the English
language . After an interval of several years , during which the first and second part of his translation appeared , we find him again entering the arena with his old antagonist , whose articles in the Quarterly Review were
severally met by a first and second * ' Reply . " To these succeeded his " Critical Examination" of the objections made to his translation by Mr . Todd , in the ' ' Vindication of our
Authorized Version /* &c , and by Mr . Whittaker , in his " Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures , " &q . ; and lastly , " A Reply to Mr . S . Lee , Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge , " in answer to his " Remarks , " &c . in which also he notices
the VindicitB Hebraicce of Mr . Heyman Hurvvitz . Having already expressed myself favourable to Mr . Bellamy ' s new translation , it can hardly be supposed that I should feel inclined to find fault with any attempts made
by him to defend the same 5 in fact , a careful perusal of his opponent ' s works ia connexion with his replies * has only tended to increase my opinion of his merits , nor shall I pretend to conceal the truth that for more
reasons than one I could have wished , if it were once for all deemed necessary to impugn the new translation , that the task of combating it had been
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/13/
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