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OCCASIONAL NOTICES OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS. (Continned from p. 108.)
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is called ' the Son of Joseph / are not influenced by any supposed inconsistency in the flairacttlons conception of Jesus with his proper humanity ; for Dr . Lardner believed the chapter to be authentic , as do many other Unitarians . "—P . 27 ,
Occasional Notices Of American Publications. (Continned From P. 108.)
OCCASIONAL NOTICES OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS . ( Continned from p . 108 . )
IN our last Number we were proceeding to give some account of the Correspondence relative to the Prospects of Christianity and the : Means of promoting its Reception in India , printed at the Cambridge University JPress , U . S . ; and we expressed our intention to lay before our readers some of ita varied information .
The Correspondence is , however , republished In England > * and we shalJ , * The English edition ( for which the public are indebted to Messrs . G . Fox and Co . ) corresponds , p ^ ge for page , with the American ; but the nunuber of the pages includes the Title , and is , in con-Sequeucej two more than the American .
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words , explained conformably with thfe Jewish Idiom and Usage /* " Jehovah . ( Self-existing . ) The true arid living God : Jer . x . 10 , The maker of Heaven and earth : Isaiah xliv . 24 , Called also the Father : John iv . 23 .
The Redeemer : Isaiah lxiii . 14 . The Saviour : Isaiahxlv . 15 , 21 ; Titus iii . 4 . * e Saviour is also a title of Ghrist Jesus whom the Father sent to be the Saviour of the world : 1 John iv .
14-" The fulness of the Godhead is the spirit of the Father ' s deity which dwelled in Jesus : Col . ii . 9 ; Luke iv . 1 . "A' person or people sanctified to Jehovah is said to be called by his name ; as the Messiah : Jer . Xxiii . 6 . Jerusalem : Jer . xxxiii . 16 .
cc The word . The wisdom and power of Jehovah , Ps . xxxiii . 6 ; 2 Peter iii ; 5 : especially as manifested in the man Christ Jesus , John i . 14 : who is therefore called the Word , Rev . xix . 13 : as he is also called the power and wisdom of God , 1 Cor . 1 . 24 .
" The Word is used also for the spoken wiH of God , 1 Kings xii . 32 ; and especially the preached gospel , Acts viii . 14 * The revealed purposes of God , Rev . i . 2 ; The gospel doctrine , James i . 21 . The gospel warrant for any practice or custom , 1 Tim . iv . 5 . God's written word
or will , the law , Prov . xiii . 13 . The divine counsels and promises generally , Ps . cxix . 49 . The word of life is the doctrine or promise of immortality conveyed from the Father through Jesus Christ : who is therefore called by its name , 1 John i . 1 . "—Pp . 26 , 27 .
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therefore , enter on the subject le less detail than mi g ht otherwise have been desirable . Mr . Adam ' s answer to the first inquiry— ' * What is the real success of
the great exertions which are now making fox the conversion of the natives of India to Christianity "—extends to p . 40 . He arranges these exertions under two classes , the direct and the indirect . Under the former
head , he places first the Translations of the Scriptures , in which , as is generally known , Dr . Carey has taken We shall follow the |> agea of the English edition .
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I 74 Occasional Notices of American Publications .
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Art . V . — A Scriptural Catechism , in which the Answers are supplied by Texts ofScripture ; for the Use of Schools and Families . To which ts annexed , a Table of Scriptural Terms , tvith Textual References * By the Editor of Compiled Prayers . 12 mo . pp . 44 . Hunter . Is .
THE author of the present Catechism aims to combine the most essential points in doctrine and morals with something of an historical connexion . The answers are conveyed in express Texts of Scripture ; a method
which unites the advantages of simplicity , impressiveness and authority . The framers of scholastic catechisms ( as the author remarks ) seem to have been little aware how nearly scriptural purity of language is allied to scriptural purity of faith .
This is without exception the best Catechism , upon the whole , that we have seen . We are pleased to see in it the Ten Commandments , with some Notes and the Lord ' s Prayer . The Table of Scriptural Terms is excellent—not only children , but many grown persons would find it instructive . We quote the three first
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/46/
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