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pnoctediug ^ fwryuweU fcoows ) , the book ft acoarcHbgtysent fortb into the World . Itia published ? by . subscription , and there & prefixed to it a highly respectable list of names , i - ¦ " Novelty is not to be expected on this subject ; nor do we find it here . But Mr . Cameron has bequeathed to us a plain and useful compendium of the
principal arguments from Scripture for the proper unity of God and humanity of Christ , the circulation of which may do much good , especially if it can be made to circulate in Ireland . The proofs are briefly but satisfactorily stated , and well arranged . It may also be men * tioned , as matter of commendation , that the direct and positive evideuce of the Unitarian doctrine is made much more
prominent than the reply to Trinitariau objections . One clear , pertinent , and decisive assertion of that doctrine from the Scriptures , is more likely to impress the minds of common readers than any number of explanations , however satisfactory , of passages which have been thought to assert the Trinitarian tenets .
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Art . V . —Address to the Sons of Israel . London . 1828 . 12 mo . pp . 12 . This tract is only printed for gratuitous distribution . It is written by a pious and sensible member of the Jewish community , who is deeply affected by
the degraded state , 01 his brethren , and is auxious to do somethiug for its amelioration . He complains of their habitual want of serious attention , of moral principle , and , of religious feeling . He earnestly exhorts them to fix their minds upon the perfections of the God . of their fathers . The declarations of Moses and
the prophets concerning the divine Unity and Supremacy are largely quoted and impressively applied . « We learn with pkaaufie from the advertisement prefixed to this Tract , that " if its reception by the public produces the effect hoped forj moce Treatises are proposed to . be issued by a society to be formed for that purpose , in which all the
principles and acrttcieBioi belieft of the Jewish religion will be dearly tmade out and familiarly explained / ' If a » maU portion of the hnndced and fifty / thousand pounds Baut . tt » hare been •\ ibacrjhe < t and expended ftw ^ the ( conversion of the Jewa w Christianity > idntfug ' : < the fcftt fifteen years , had { moid applied v to » the circul&-tioti of jnoual audfxloTOtiontd trarto like
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this , composed by their own peoptey amf sanctioned by their own rabbis , Ihey would have effected a much less questionable good than that of purchasing the Christian profession of a few adventurers . Let their minds and characters be elevated ; a benignant process ,
best accomplished by those who cannot be suspected of a covert design to proselytize ; and then , whether , as we may anticipate , conversion follows ; or whether , as the author of this Tract may suppose , it be as distant as ever , still a felicitous change will have taken place , in which all benevolent minds will rejoice , and for which all pious minds will praise the God of Abraham .
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Aut . VI . — The Foreign Quarterly Review . No ^ V . We notice this very interesting number of a very interesting work , merely XO extract from the article on Karamsin ' s History of Russia the following amusing specimen of national conversion :
" After reigning thirty-three years , during which period he made two irruptions into the Greek empire , Igor was assassinated by the Drevlians , A . D . 945 . His widow Olga , who governed during the minority of her son Sviatoslaf , revenged his death in a manner equally perfidious and cruel ; but her subsequent conversion to Christianity atoned for all . Though that religion had several professors in Kief , into which it had been
introduced in the preceding reign , she went to Constantinople , to be more accurately instructed in the new faith ; and there she was baptized , the emperor himself ( Constantine Porphyrogenitus ) standing as sponsor . Her shocking treachery to the Drevlians was not considered any impediment to her canonization ; as she was the first Russian sovereign who submitted to the holy rite , a grateful church has placed her in its venerable catalogue of saints . But neither Sviatoslaf nor his
subjects were much influenced by her example : the golden-whiskered Perune , and a host of inferior deities , were still the objects of general adoration , " Of the three sons left ? by $ vfctoslaf , Yaropolk , Oleg , and Vladimir , the two former fell victims to their-unnatural
- contentions * ( Y&rppolfcV under the title of grand duke , held Kief , and Oleg thecountry of the Drevliane , ) and the lasfr , who hadi tbeen ruler of Novgorod , succeeded to the undivided sovereignty . For hia « UccflB « iik restoring the -unity of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 782, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/54/
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