GOSPET, - The Gospel Magazine

HT.|BREW RE!iDERINcs.
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" Iay figure t' is callerl " Autinomian.t' Horvever, though it nlay pass nrusterat
the.Royalp.az'rfers'academy,the,.hangers," (ar the bar oi spirituil idjudicature,l,
rvill not fail, to place l.is blach-dashirl portr.ait in tlre convenient brit consigned
" darh room."*
And norv what more shall I sa1'to this rvretcbed rvriter, rvho not content sith
giving- unto the-" Autinornian" a"vilelv ln()nal, and diatrrilic,,lly invisible be!n(,
lrut rvho closed his tract by iuvesting lrim rvith even infernd porver, saviuu, .. "In
the Chur, h g,nd. o,ut of it he--is equilly the sil,ne, /utl ;,f etl su'btletg'anti mirchieJ)
tne /0c (rJ au Ttghteuusness." u.c.
Reeeive-tlry ve-rdict, 0 calurnniator from tlre Lord; fronr Hin w\oJrwstratetli
the tohens of the liars, so tlrat like unto Atrirhophel tbeir language ii tur.ned
irrto ioolishrress I vr'lro " mnheth diuiners nar!,', anti prrtteth thor-n iriio the eternal
mad-Louse of hell : frrrm Hirn $lro lrates a pr.oud l,rok, alyirrg tongue, ltet
that be srvift in runnirrg to urischief, a false rvitneis that speaketh Iies, arid hauds
tlrat shed innocent blood: &c, Hear ye ilre Word of the Lord,
" Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes."
Such is every one wholoasts il tlre.. mdjertu of mun,,, and gives unto hig
cartal reason, tlte " diuinittl" of rhe rvisrlom of (iod.
lVoe to them that have gone in the rvay of Cain, and follorved the error of
Balaam; such have all tlrey' rvho srnire the Abels oi Gorl, and rvould 1if they
could) curse his lsrael.
Woe to thern that rvrite the grievousness rvhich their hearts have preached.
And such,have all they done who like the Scriire r,f rv.hit.h I am speakirrg, has
taken_-up the pen- to pervert judqment, and destroy e(l,rily.
" !\'oe
to the foolislr prophets tlrat follow their'otrn spitit.,,
6'Woe ro hirn that buildetlr a torvn (uf professors) rviLh blood, and establishetb
a city (of trypocritesl by iniquity.', ' -
_ \41,e unto -)og, ve Pttoiir"ei, vi,re unto yo1, ve Iarvysl5: Woe unto you,
Ecrihes, Phari,teee, hgpocritet ; WOE I WOEII \\.'OEl I I
C, Julg 13,1852.
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HEBREW RENDERINGS.
\\'hat fulness of matter, $'hat graee of conception, rvhat intensity of 0orter. lie
treasured up in the first r.lrapter of Gencsis ! 'lr is rhe altine of,Iicle
'rhe Iioly
Ghost,-to gpen the eves of ,iur urrderstarrdirrq upon tlris, or irny l)ortion of Gurl'i
rvord, for before that l)ivine Teacher, lrrtelltct anrl Reason muri I'orv and be sil9nt,
i{ay -rv9
s.it at His fee_t, and look up tu Hirn, ,. as rhe eyes of servants uuto
tbe hanrls of tlreir urasters !"
14'hen studied in the origirral, this chapter, rrith the trvo follorving, have a depth
arrd grandeur which no translaiion, how.vei fairhful, cun conu"yl'Let us tl'ren
tak e a gla nce at a ferv verses, as they stan d in m ore im rir ediate corireoion rvith the
Hebrerv language.
" In the heginning," 11'ho can solve the meaninq of that vast wor{}, ltandin{'
tlird in ordeiarnorr-g the hrrndreds of thousands rvhiclr follow ? lts root is head',
tlerrotirrg priority or precerlence es irtmt or higheil oJ its h;nd. The same rvord
oceurs in tlre ?2nd verse of the 8tlr of Proverbs. u:hich ought to he read thus,
" the Lord lrossessed me, I\e beeinning of his rrav', lfbr in'-rhe Hebrerv there is
no preposition.\ the principal,, dr chief ; atcordilrg rvith rhe Apostle's recortl of
{"sus, /re beginning of thc crention of God.. .. Co;1.', Aleim,'the 6ods, derivetl
tronr^suearing, or tuking-.oaths.on themseltes, and transldted lry an ol,l writer,
the Denouncers of a cowlitional curse. Nurv Jehovah is frcquentlv represented
as ralifling lris promises to his people lN an nath, Gen. xxii. 16,-Isaiuh liv,9;
for "lrecause he could srrear by n. greater, [Ie srvare hy Himself;,' and rvlre'
sb,rving to his church the irnmutalriliLy of lris counsel, clid He not contirrn that
too, hy nn otth ? Heb. vi. 17. As a noun singrrlar, thie marvellorrs rvord occrrrs
brrt a ferv tirnes in tlre old resrarnent, rvlren if may be rendered, one uceurser{. or
s4Qect to a curse; antl Paul tells us in Gal. iji. 13, that rlre God-man wut mad,e
A Curse l tr ilt.
A cnrlou with the "hangelt" aeademy wit plelul€r inferior xcrit.