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cannot admit , with Peirce , that the inheritors of the promises were Gentile converts : nor throughout the epistle do I perceive a single allusion to this class of believers . The learned
and very able commentator appeals to Rom . xi . 11 , and supposes that the author of the letter to the Hebrews is in a similar manner animating to holy emulation those of his countrymen who believed ; and that he would thus stimulate them by the living- examples of the Gentile disciples , who were more steadfast in the Christian
profession . Between these two compositions , however , there is a wide difference , as to the circumstances in which they were severally drawn up , and the bodies of people to whom they were addressed : nor has Peirce adverted to the distinction . The
Church at Rome contained some Gentile as well as many Jewish converts : accordingly , in the epistle sent thither , Paul notices each of those descriptions of men , and reasons and exhorts with a view to their respective opinions and condition . By the author of the letter to the Hebrews
another course is pursued : he wrote only to Christians , who had been Jews , and who were in danger of apostacy . On this accotint , he borrows his arguments exclusively from Jewish objects and characters , from his country ' s history and institutions .
la the thirteenth and seventeenth verses of the sixth chapter we see further presumptions , that the author had solely Hebrew patriarchs and worthies in his view . No doubt several Heathen converts inherited the
promises : but concerning that division of the Christian world the epistle before us is silent . Heb . xi . 3 , ** — tlirough faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , " &c .
i he material worlds arc not intended : ( 1 st , ) the plural noun [ rov < ouoovaq \ has been employed here , and in a few other passages ; and it no where admits of the sense ordinarily affixed to the term worlds ; ( 2 dly , )
one meaning of uicov , is a dispensation of religion , and of aiavsq , dispensations of religion ; ( 3 dly , ) that the material worlds were framed by the word or power of God , is a proposition resting on the reports of sense and on the deductions of reason , ra-
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ther than on faith in testimonywhereas , if the reference be to the patriarchal , Mosaic and Christian dispensations , the statement will form a pertinent and beautiful introduction to all which follows . 1 John lii . 2 . " Beloved , now are we the sons of God , * ' &c .
Some attention will be essential , for the purpose of discerning the scope of the writer ' s argument in this verse . He is not reasoning from the parental character of God to the certainty of the future eternal happiness of Christ ' s genuine followers : that
Christian doctrine has the resurrection of Jesus for its basis . The beloved disciple ' s object is of another kind : from the relation of Christians to their Lord , from the circumstance of their too being denominated sons of Godf he shews that their glory and their form in the life to come will
resemble the Saviour ' s . Such is the import of the passage , with which 1 Cor . xv . 49 , Philipp . iii . 21 , ought to be compared . Before I lay down my pen , let me confess a mistake , which I have inadvertently committed , in a recent article of Review . * Eusebius has twice
* XXI . 177 .
mentioned the story respecting the Apostle John and Cerinthns : I should have limited myself to the remark , that he mentions it on no personal knowledge or good authority .
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452 Further Thoughts on Christian Education .
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Further Thoughts on Christian Education . ( See Mon . Repos . Vol . XX . p . 17 ) " d ^^ i IVE your son good principles " \ JC says one writer on education . " Give him ffood habits , " says
another . Is it too much to affirm that all the mistakes made in education by parents , whose love of their offspring and anxiety for their welfare have directed their attention much to the subject , arise from too great a practical bias towards one or other of the
systems recommended above ? One parent is unsparing of advice and initiation into the principles of religion , but rather unmindful of the formation of habit : another is particularly careful of the latter , but not sufficientl y aware of the instability of mere good
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/8/
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