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reason and religion to hold fast to it, until it can be shown to
have been abrogated, not by an ingenious array of probabili ities and plausible analogies, but by direct conclusive evidence,
as clear and strong as that which demonstrates the original
inspiration of the Hebrew Bible. But how immeasurably far
short of such evidence does that fall, which consists in showing
that a Greek Old Testament was greatly needed, and that
Christ and his Apostles used it as a storehouse of religious
phraseology and a source of illustrative quotation. All this
might have been done with an inspired and faultless version;
but it might also have been done with a human and imperfect
one; and therefore the bare fact that it was done can prove
nothing, either one way or the other.
From the publication of this volume we should be happy to
anticipate two benefits. The first is the confirmed belief of the
true doctrine, which it labours among others to demolish. The
second is a general return to the enlightened, rational, and
,liigent study of the Septuagint version, not apart from the
liHe )rw text and in a kind of opposition to it, which can only
lead to such results as those developed in the book before us,
but in such connection with it and subordination to it, as will
furnish the best safeguards against both extremes, that of ignorant or prejudiced depreciation, as well as that of overweening admiration and idolatrous attachment.
A ITT. IV.-Cornmiunion-The d?f erence between Christian
and (u/urch Fellowship, aitd Oetween Communion and its
Sym)bols; embracing a Review of the arguments of the Rev.
Robert )all, and Rev. Baptist TV. Noel, in favour of
Mixed communion. By G. F. Curtis, A. M., Professor of
Theology, Harvard College, Ala. Philadelphia: American
Baptist Publication Society, in Arch Street. 1850.
WE are not surprised that the subject of Free Communion is
beginning to attract the attention of the American Baptist
brethren in this country, as it has of the churches of that de
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