Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

that one fayeth in my prefence, that bath never prayed to Our Sa viour for feven years together.'

After deducing fome judicious and ufeful conclufions from the hiftory of Unitarianifm, our worthy Author proceeds, in his third chapter, to fhew, that religious worship is to be offered to the ONE GOD, THE FATHER, ONLY. This point is dif cuffed, by Mr. Lindsey, in a manner which deferves the most ferious attention of those who differ from him. It is, undoubtedly, a matter of the utmost importance. If there be any thing which may be regarded as essential in religion, it is the object of worship. It feems to have been the defign of every revelation of the Divine Will, to direct mankind aright in this refpect; and, therefore, it is of infinite moment that we do not give that glory to another, which is due alone to the Eternal Jehovah, the Supreme Ruler of the universe, the Original and Parent of all existence.

In treating upon the caufes of the unhappy defection among Chriftians, from the fimplicity of religious worship prescribed in the fcriptures of the New Teftament, which is the business of the fourth chapter, our Author points out the influence which falfe philofophy had in corrupting the genuine truth of the gospel. But he has proved that there is another, and prin cipal fource of the corruption of the true Chriftian doctrine and worship; a fource from which the worst of errors have flowed, and which alfo, in the proportion wherein it prevails, will perpetuate them for ever.-Need we add, that the object here pointed out, is HUMAN AUTHORITY in the church of CHRIST?

The defign of the fifth chapter is to fhew, how an union in God's true worship is to be attained. Here Mr. Lindsey propofes a ftanding apoftolic rule for prayer; and hath inferted, and recommended the late eminent and excellent Dr. Samuel Clarke's amendments of the liturgy. Thefe we fhall give, at large, to our Readers; and, for the fake of thefe, we have avoided infifting fo fully on the preceding parts of the Apology as we should otherwife have done,

A Lift of exceptionable Parts of the Liturgy with respect to the Object of Worship, and which are either quite ftruck out, or changed, by Dr. Clarke.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghoft: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever fhall be, world without end.

Te Deum.

Thou art the king of glory, O Chrift.
Thou art the everlafting Son of the Father.

track out, and ever it is ordered changed, where

to be read.

changed, and the whole directed to God, and not to

When thou tookeft upon thee to deliver man, Cbrif.

thou didst not abhor the virgin's womb,

T

Te Deum continued.

When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

Thou fitteft at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father.

We believe that thou fhalt come to be our judge.

We therefore pray thee to help thy fervants, whom thou haft redeemed with thy precious blood.

Make them to be numbered with thy faints in glory everlasting.

Lord have mercy upon us.

Chrift have mercy upon us.

Lord have mercy upon us.

[blocks in formation]

Prayer of St. Chryfoftom.

-when two or three are gathered together in changed to thy

thy name

The Creed of St. Athanafius.

Litany.

}

Son's name,

ftruck out.

O God the Son, redeemer of the world, have] mercy upon us, miferable finners.

O God the Holy Ghoft, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon us, miferable finners.

changed, and the whole addreffed to the one God

O holy, bleffed, and glorious Trinity, three the Father. perfons and one God, have mercy upon us, miferable finners.

whom thou haft redeemed with thy moft), precious blood.

By the mystery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy nativity and circumcifion; by thy baptifm, changed, and the fafting, and temptation.

By thine agony and bloody fweat; by thy crofs and paffion; by thy precious death and burial; by thy glorious refurrection and afcen fion; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost.

Son of God we beseech thee to hear us.
Son of God we beseech thee to hear us.

O Lamb of God, that takeft away the fins of the world,

Grant us thy peace.

O Lamb of God, that takeft away the fins of the world,

[blocks in formation]

whole directed to

God.

the whole of this quite ftruck out.

Litany

Litany continued.

O Chrift hear us.
O Chrift hear us.

Lord have mercy upon us.
Lord have mercy upon us.
Chrift have mercy upon us.
Chrift have mercy upon us.

Lord have mercy upon us.
Lord have mercy upon us.

From our enemies defend us, O Christ.
Son of David, have mercy upon us.

quite ftruck out

changed and di.

Both now and ever vouchfafe to hear us, Orected to God.

Chrift.

Graciously hear us, O Chrift, graciously hear us, O Lord Chrift.

Prayer in Time of Dearth and Famine.

[blocks in formation]

-to whom with thee and the Holy Ghoft be and every where all honour and glory, now and for ever.

Collects.

First Sunday in Advent.

throughout the Liturgy.

-who liveth and reigneth with thee and the 7 changed here, Holy Ghoft, now and ever.

Third Sunday in Advent.

and in all other places,

O Lord Jefu Chrift, who, at thy firft coming, changed and ad

&c.

}

Fourth Sunday in Advent.
Christmas-Day.

-who liveth and reigneth with thee and the

fame Spirit, ever one God, world without end.

St, Stephen's Day.

-who prayed for his murderers to thee, bleffed Jesus

Trinity Sunday.

Nicene Creed.

Exhortation to the Communion.

-above all ye must give moft humble and hearty thanks to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, for the redemption of the world

dreffed to God,

changed.

changed here, and every where.

[blocks in formation]

by the death and paffion of our Saviour Chrift,changed, and di both God and man

To him, therefore, with the Father, and the Holy Ghoft, let us give continual thanks.

Preface upon the Feast of Trinity.

rected to God.

[ocr errors]

ftruck out.

Prayer

Prayer after the Communion.

-by whom, and with whom, in the unity of

the Holy Ghoft, all honour and glory be unto changed thee, O Father.

O Lord, the only begotten Son, Jefu Chrift, O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the fins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the fins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takeft the fins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that fitteft at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.

away

For thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord, thou only, O Chrift, with the Holy Ghoft, art moft high in the glory of God the Father.

Public Baptifm of Infants.

changed intirely,

and addreffed

only to God.

-Ye have prayed, that our Lord Jefus Chrift would vouchfafe to receive him, to release him changed here, of his fins, to fanctify him with the Holy Ghoft, and alfo in the to give him the kingdom of heaven and everlaft-baptifm of fuch as are of riper ing life.-Ye have heard alfo, that our Lord Jeyears. fus hath promifed in his gofpel to grant all these things.

Catechifm.

What doft thou chiefly learn in thefe articles of the belief?

First, I learn to believe in God the Father, who hath made me and all the world.

Secondly, in God the Son, who hath redeemed me and all mankind.

Thirdly, in God the Holy Ghoft, who fanctifieth me and all the elect people of God.

Matrimony,

>ftruck out.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the 7 the}

Holy Ghoft, blefs, preferve, and keep you.

Vifitation of the Sick.
Abfolution.

Our Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath left power to his church to abfolve all finners, who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy for

changed.

give thee thine offences; and, by his authority quite struck out. Committed to me, I abfolve thee from all thy fins,

in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,

We

We cannot conclude without teftifying our opinion, that this work does honour to the Author's understanding, as well as to his heart. It is a valuable monument of his wifdom, learning, integrity, and piety; and we hope that he will be favoured with the public encouragement: and particularly with the patronage of thofe Christians who concur with him in fentiment.

ART. VI. A new and literal Tranflation, from the original Hebrew, of the Pentateuch of Mofes, and of the biftorical Books of the Old Teftament, to the End of the Second Book of Kings: With Notes critical and Explanatory. By the late Reverend and Learned Julius Bate, M. A., Rector of Sutton, in Suffex. 4to. 16 s. Boards. Law. 1773.

OUR

[ocr errors]

UR opinion of Mr. Julius Bate, as a writer and a critic, hath been long known to the Readers of the Monthly Review. The perufal of the prefent work hath not given us the leaft reason to change that opinion. It is, most certainly, a new translation, and fo very literal, as to be really unintelligible to a plain English reader.

We have seen many verfions of the fcriptures; but we do not recollect any one, in any language, not excepting that of St. Omer's, which exceeds, or even equals, this of Mr. Julius Bate, for obfcurity, inconfiftency, and abfurdity. The Author, it must be granted, was a tolerable mafter of fome parts. of Oriental literature; but he seems to have been entirely void of judgment. He hath employed all his learning in disfiguring, we may fay, in burlefquing, the facred writings.

The chief defign of this work, is a defence of the Athanafian Trinity; and many paffages, which are fimply historical, are faid, by our Author, clearly to contain that doctrine.

If this be really true, we fhould be obliged to fome able Hutchinfonian for the folution of the following difficulty: If the Old Teftament doth really, as thefe gentlemen affirm, contain the doctrine of the Athanafian Trinity, how came it to pass that no Jew, from the days of Mofes to the present, ever found it out, or even fufpected it? That the Jews never had any apprehenfion of this doctrine is well known; and that, with the more fenfible part of them, it is one grand objection to Chriftianity, we are affured by learned perfons of that perfuafion.

As modern improvements in fcience, and in found criticifm, have deprived the Hutchinfonians, and others, of an Athanafian Trinity in the New Teftament, they have been obliged to change their ground, and fearch for it in the Old : and to prevent, if poffible, another difcomfiture, they have put myftical fenfes on plain hiftorical paffages, and inferred ftrange conclufions, from fanciful, equivocal, and, very often, unna

tural

« AnteriorContinuar »