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Sir , HAVE been much surprised at I some recent compilers of
Hymnbooks ascribing to Andrew Marvell the beautiful devotLonal poems , beginning " The spacious firmament on high , " and f * When all thy mercies , O my God , " which have been for a
century regarded as Mr . Addison ' s . The only authority that I am aware of for this substitution of JWfarvelPs name is Captain Thompson ' s statement , in his Preface to the 4 to edition of MarvelPs
Works , in 3 volumes , published in 1776 , that these with other poems were found in a manuscxipt of the Hull patriot ' s . On so slender a foundation , who would place so serious a charge against the pious Addison as
every one knows is implied in the alteration ? Nothing is extant of Marveil ' s undoubted writing which shews him to have been capable of writing verses of so much polish and sweetness as the hymns in question . A PSALMODIST-
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Sir , HAVE heard much wonder ex-I pressed at Dr . J . Jones ' s novel hypothesis that Josephus was a concealed Christian . But there is
nothing new under the sun . Let your readers look into Whiston ' s Collection of Authentic Records , Part JL p . 960 , and they will see that this learned man confidently affirms that € t
Josephus was no other than a Na * zarene or Ebionite Christian , and with them ( the Ebionites ) esteemed our Saviour to be a mere man , the son of Joseph and Mary / ' Honest Whiston laments over both " the Nazarenes oc
Ebionites , whom we now call Soeini * ana" and the Athanasians * and says they are all convicted of their errors by the " denial of supernatural gifts . " CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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612 Josephus a Chri $ jtittn . *~ AddisQtf $ Hymns .
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day will come when all enemies shall be put under fool , truth shall i > e established in the earth , and love , universal love , will be the glorious theme of all nations . The belief in only one God , as distinguished from that of three persons in the Godhead , is acknowledged by
persons who are not Christians ; ahd notwithstanding wkat I have stud above , my right even to the title of Christian maybe called in question , because I may entertain erroneous opinions not only with respect to the person of our Saviour , but also to the nature of his mission . Great have
been the discussions lately 011 what is called the Atonement , and this word as rendered hy different writers in reference to the death of Ghrist , sets them-in hostility to eaeh other , and they combat their opponents' opinions with all the arms that ridicule ,
sarcasm , and levity * can bring to their aid * The word itself occurs , I believe , only once in the New Testament , and in the margin it is rendered by the translators reconciliation , which , in fact , is the true rendering of the Greek word . I am a firm
believer in the reconciliation by the death of Christ , whom I look up to as my Saviour who was sent to make us sons of God , through whom alone is eternal life , not as some Unitarians
say as a mere teacher , but as Paul expresses it , Eternal life is the gift of God , through Jesus Christ our Lord . As through Adam \^ e all die , so in Christ shall all be made alive .
Adam ' s sin produced death , Christ ' s obedience produced life . I acknowledge my obligations to Christ as my teacher , but these are slight compared to the debt of gratitude I owe to him in that comprehensive word so often used by his faithful missionaries , our Saviour . But all this is
consistent with the distinction pointed out so accurately by Paul , between the Supreme and his beloved Son . To us there is only one God even the Father , and one Lord even Jesus Christ-I bow the knee therefore as the apostle did to the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ , and to him alone , without any impeachment of the reverence due to our Saviour in his character of Lord . I was not aware when I begun , that this subject would have carried
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me to so great a length ; and as other points in the charge of tlie British Critic ; remain to be answered , you will perhaps indulge me with a place in a future Repository , when I shall endeavour to shew , that what the Clitic has advanced against me and Unitarianisni , it is not ia his power to substantiate . W > FREND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/36/
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