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    firiiqeed to be Client on this doctrine b ? a-friend of mine , who asked her , tf sit e £ ouki repent of her original Srin ; Tfie question is a silencing" one . TShe explanation of 2 Cor . v * 14 , appears to me strained . That of Rom ,

    iiL 20 , very acute . There is some migfetjr reasoning on Rom . iii . 23 , &e . This writer is an admirable opponent ; for while he pushes up his arguments to the utmost , he is

    candid in making all possible allowances Let me suggest an emendation . P . 728 , col . 2 , near the middle , place a period after sinne , and read thus : " But of some in $ e& Indies , I have read " &c . v # ^

    In the next pimo , the author seems to be an Antipsedohaptist . Does this corroborate or not the suspicion of his being Gilbert Clerke ? I observe his name is omitted in the Repository I ndfex for 1824 , * and therefore *; presume that this hypothesis is aba'fiiioned .

    &iints for Sunday-Schools . The original design of these institutions ( which commenced in England ) was , I believe , to instruct those children whom poverty or parental neglect deprived of the usual advantages of an elementary education . In

    America , and perhaps in England , this object has been blended with another , and is producing , I think , some exceptionable results . The managers of the schools collect together in a

    body all the children of their respective congregations , rich and poor , abecedarians and tolerable proficients , and drill them into one uniform system . In this manner , they take out of the minister ' s hands one of the

    most pleasing , easy and useful rf Ms duties , viz . the purely religious instruction of the young , with v ^ hom he ought to become early acquainted , and to carry on a course of mutual and familiar communication . Now

    it is unnecessary and oppressive to confine those children , who have every opportunity and advantage through the week , to the stale routine of a common Sunday-school . Let them occasionally recite some easy exercise to the minister only , and let the Sunday-schools still be continued by

    zeal-* An oversight of the Compiler of the Index . Ed ,

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    ous B ^ weihbei ^ of congregation , whose : Subject might be , to pt ^ l&te the . power and less privileged ^ fail * dren for tlie pastor ' s class . *• The Close of the Year . Smooth and sweet poetry . I would not be questioned about its fire or originality .

    Notes on Passages of Scripture . Some of the pleasure which this writer intimates in his motto that he derives from scriptural criticism , he is fortunate in imparting to the readers of his speculations . It is a bold maxim with which he

    begins this article . The usual practice of many critics has been , to invert it , and to investigate the New-Testament phraseology , first , by an examination of the classics , and then , of the old Testament . I feel not

    certain of that degree of pre-eminence which our critic assigns to the Septuagint translation for this purpose . I am aware of the familiarity which all the Jews possessed with that version . But would not the

    modifications , necessarily made in the language for nearly 300 years , take from the Septuagint a little of the standard character here suggested , and transfer it to contemporary classics , but particularly to the works of Philo and Josephus ? Moreover , I am surprised to find the Greek classics in general

    by this writer so much depreciated as sources of the verbal interpretation of the New Testament . Surely , the phraseology of the Septuagint itself must be in a great measure antecedently illustrated by the classical writings * And then , are we to suppose that the authors of the New Testament had read no other Greek

    than that sacred manual ? Was Paul ' s style unaffected by his extensive erudition ? Had not St . John evidently read a class of works essentially different from the Septuagint ? Was not St . Luke acquainted with a more common basis of Greek , than could be furnished from that version ? On

    all these accounts , I hesitate , though probably from imperfect acquaintance with the subject , at the assertion , that it can seldom be " essential or important to shew how a word in the New Testament is employed in the classical writings of antiquity , even if the same word can be found in the Septuagint .

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    the S ( MitiaJ ynopsis of the Monthly Repository for DecertifiedjW&& tiH

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/9/