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    mend them also to students and young ministers as an excellent example of the mode in which they should study the Scriptures , and a proof of the yet unexhausted treasures of useful observation which they contain . At one or two things in them we own ourselves surprised . We are

    surprised that any man , of any critical knowledge , should speak of St . Paul as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews , without the least apparent consciousness of a doubt being ever entertained on the subject . We are surprised at the observation , that " as the Messiah , the Jews were anxious to receive

    Jesus , which was the character in which he had entered Jerusalem ; but they rejected him as the Son of God , which was the character in which he stood before them at his trial ; facts which , taken in a doctrinal view * are of no small value , proving as they do that the Jews believed Christ to lay claim to divinity , however they might dispute or deny the right . " We have always thought that , if theologians were agreed on any subject , they were agreed

    that the Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah , and were averse to receive him in this character : the great object of the preaching of the apostles appears to have been to persuade , the world that Jesus was the Messiah . We know , too , that many orthodox theologians have contended that the Jews expected their Messiah to be a divine person , and drew this expectation justly , as they conceive , from their prophecies ; so that if they received him in one character , the other followed as a matter of course . We leave * Mr . Blunt to

    reconsider his novel opinion . But we do not wish to censure . In the concluding paragrr jhs of Mr . Blunt ' s volumes we have taken great interest : we decidedly agree with him in thinking , and the observation has often been forced upon our own minds , that " where the ordinary circumstances of the narrative have the impress of

    truth , the extraordinary have a valid right to challenge our consideration too ; " and " that the more attentively and closely we examine the Scriptures , the more shall we be convinced that the natural and supernatural events recorded in them , must stand or fall together . '' The latter part of the volume on the veracity of the five books of Moses , contains a distinct ,

    concise , and valuable , summary of their internal evidence to which , we can only refer ; and with the concluding page of the volume on the Evangelists , " where the author is commending a moral life as a means of faith , " we here present our readers : " Frequently is faith found dead in operation amongst those who have had the best opportunities from knowledge , and the habitual exercise of their reason , to acquaint themselves with the testimonies to the truth of revelation

    and who are ready to admit that those testimonies are satisfactory . Whilst , on the other hand , under the cottage roof perhaps , ( where the evidences have been little examined , ) but where prayer and a life agreeable to Scripture have been resorted to , may the minister of God discover the active workings of a faith the most lively ; not exhibiting itself in vapid and heartless exclamations of belief , but in the more sober fruits of patience under sickness—trust in God under poverty—courage to meet the fever and contagion for a neighbour ' s relief—gratitude for mercies received ; without a question but that

    from God ' s hands they immediately flow . These and the like fruits of a stedfast faith , I repeat , may be often met with in a thatched cottage of our land , chiefly resulting from God ' s blessing on a moral life , and the outpouring pf prayer , so that even the spiritual guide of the parish shall enter that poor man s door , and stand beside his sick-bed with a feeling almost of envy at the delightful sincerity of the unlearned sufferer ; reproach himself , that , though a master in Israel , he knoweth not these things to the same extent , and renew , perhaps , the slumbering flame of his own devotion at the hearth of Iris less highly-gifted brother . "

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    Undesigned Coincidences in Scripture , 615

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/31/