Surely, in the corresponding language of Lucian, the fcoffer, but the co-adjutor, unintentionally, of the teachers of the Gospel :

Οι δε εχθροι εφιμωνία.

"Moreover, his enemies were MUZZLED."

And fo may "the minifters and ftewards of the divine myfteries "-to the end of time

"Muzzle the ignorance of fenfelefs men!"

1 Pet. ii. 15.

From the nice difcrimination of tenfes in these two last inftances, I am strongly of opinion, that the critically accurate Mark, (as the closest inspection and comparison with the reft of the Gospels will find him,) has given us in both cases, the original words uttered by HIM who "Spake as never man fpake." And Galilee abounded in Hellenifts or Grecizing Jews-whence it was contemptuoufly ftyled " Galilee of

the Gentiles."-This feems to be confirmed by the quickening words of command, in the Syriac language, foon after, recorded by Mark v. 41.

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Ταλίθα

Ταλιθα κεμί.

"DAMSEL ARISE!"

This gives an intereft to the defcriptions of the Evangelifts, which if rendered through the mist of translation, must be weakened. And now, let any claffical reader of taste, let any of Shakespeare's “black-letter dogs," compare this quelling of the storm by OUR LORD, with Virgil's admired description of Neptune allaying the tempeft raised by Æolus-and how tame and paltry does the vague and unfinished threat of the heathen god appear! and its wretched falling off!

Quos ego!-Sed præftat motos componere fluctus.

This fummary fketch, which could cafily be dilated to a volume, (and may perhaps, at a more aufpicious feafon,) may fuffice to show, how "unphilofophical, and how mischievous, are the opinions" of Mr. Belsham concerning CHRIST and the Devil, both from "Reafon, and Scripture carefully studied, and rightly understood.”

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The following latitudinarian positions of Belham, appear to have ftartled his Reviewers themselves:

"We cannot refrain from noticing that among what will be deemed fingular doctrines, and which muft shock the minds of many Serious Christians; our author contends, in several parts of these letters, that a SABBATH-day makes no part of CHRISTIANITY;" afferting that, “to a TRUE CHRISTIAN, every day is a fabbath; every place, a temple; and every action of life, an act of devotion."

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A Sabbath-day, or day of holy reft, confecrated unto THE LORD, THE GOD OF GODS-as the folemn and public teft of the allegiance of all his rational creatures -was the uniform ufage of the Patriarchal Church from time immemorial, and alfo of the Jewish, from its earliest institution on the model of the Patriarchala ufage founded on the wifeft human policy, as well as on the pofitive law of revelation. The profanation of the Sabbath therefore, or proftitution of it to fecular ufes,

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ufes, was confidered, from the primitive times, as an overt act of high treafon against the MAJESTY OF HEAVEN :—thus, the obfervance of the Sabbath among the Ifraelites appears to have been an old, established ufage, prior to the grant of the Law on Mount Sinai, Exod. xvi. 23. and its due obfervance miraculously provided for, in the defart-by a double supply of manna for the multitude on the preceding day. It was afterwards guarded by the fourth commandment; and a flight breach thereof, even 66 gathering a few sticks," was punished with death, and that by the exprefs command of the ORACLE, when confulted by Mofes, in a cafe where the penalty had not been fpecified in the Divine code. Numb. xv. 35.

By the authority of Him, who was "Lord even of the Sabbath," the primitive Lord's day, which was Saturday, the laft of the week in memorial of the Creation having been finished, when the AuTHOR OF NATURE refted, as it were, from his "good good" or excellent works,

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was transferred, under the Chriftian difpenfation, to Sunday, the first day of the week, as a memorial of our Lord's refurrection, or commencement of the New Creation of the human race, on which "life and incorruption" were illustrated, by JESUS CHRIST "the first fruits". the sample and the pledge of the re-union of the fouls of the faithful to incorruptible bodies:-as fo finely explained in that most fublime and mysterious chapter on the refurrection, 1 Cor. xv. containing a masterly and ftupendous outline of the grand evidences and scheme of Chrif tianity.

A Sabbath-day therefore conftitutes an effential part of Christianity, both by pofitive command, and by all the ties of private gratitude and public thanksgiving,

"for our creation, for our prefervation, and for all, the bleffings of this life; but above all, for the ineftimable love of our HEAVENLY FATHER, in the redemption of the world, by our LORD JESUS CHRIST; for the means of grace [by the infpiration

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