attentive mind for rightly receiving those irrefragable proofs of the Divine benevolence to his human offspring, which not only nature proclaims, but the Scriptures largely describe; and for regarding their allusions to it as just sanctions to its holy verity and worth. Besides the several instances in the Psalms of evident reference to this introduction of the sacred writ renewed and ample testimony to their being the well-adapted means of his superintending and bountiful providence, which upholdeth nature in pristine vigour, and giveth life and breath, and all things conducive to the general welfare and happiness of his creatures. RICHARD FRY. SIR, "Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament," given in the last volume of the Monthly Repository, and cannot help thinking that it would contribute to gratify the curiosity of many of your readers, if the same gentleman to whom we are indebted for that sketch, or any other person who possesses a competent knowledge of the German language, would furnish a translation of the 426th Section, which contains an outline of the author's theory respecting the origin of the Book of Genesis, and a statement of the reasons by which he has been guided in assigning the different portions of that Book to the documents from which he supposes them to have been respectively taken. ings, the prophets allude to its de-perusal of the Sketch of Eichhorn's HAVE been much gratified by a scriptions; and their sublime celebrations of the attributes of God, as displayed in his works, tend to attest that the Mosaic account was the source of their information, and to certify that it was believed by them to contain an unquestionably true statement of the origin of nature. The same valid sanction is given to the truth of this primitive record by the various indirect allusions to its contents by our Saviour and his apostles, for it is not credible that they would have referred to it in a manner that would be liable to be understood as implying their persuasion of the reality of its representations, if they had viewed the narrative as being in any respect fabulous. Thus, then, unless I am much mistaken, the first chapter of Genesis briefly, but truly and faithfully, portrays the institution of those principles and laws which originated in unerring wisdom and unbounded benevolence, and are invested with neverfailing efficacy to perform the goodwill of God; and every season of the year, yea every revolving day, bears a If my own acquaintance with the German had been more intimate than it is, so as to have given me confidence in making such a translation, I should have been glad to have supplied what I am now under the necessity of asking as a favour. R. W. A List of STUDENTS educated at the ACADEMY at DAVENTRY under the Patronage of Mr. COWARD's Trustees, and under the successive superintendence of the Rev. CALEB ASHWORTH, D. D., the Rev. THOMAS Robins, and the Rev. THOMAS BELSHAM. Communicated by Mr. BELSHAM. Year of (Concluded from p. 164.) Name. Remarks. Admission. 1779, d. Thomas Hawkes, Penn Benjamin. Shattock, m. a manufacturer at Birmingham. Nicholas Thos. Heinekin, m. Ware-Brentford-Gainsborough-Bradford 1780, " Noon, m. d. Mordaunt Crachcrode, m. in Yorkshire. Lambrook. no very distant relation of the celebrated Prebendary of Westminster, who assisted to support him at the Academy; died on the road as he was going to preach a lecture. Year of Admission. Name. 1780, Eliezer Cogan, m. Ebenezer Beasley, m. John Wainewright, Esq. d. John Rodick, Charles Frederick Bond, Remarks. Cirencester; removed to Ware to assist in a school; afterwards opened a school himself at Enfield; removed to Cheshunt; became minister of a congregation settled at Walthamstow one of the most learned of the Dissenting Ministers of his day; his merits gradually became very conspicuous; and his school very prosperous; half-brother to the celebrated Dr. Thomas Cogan, one of the founders of the Humane Society, author of Travels on the Rhine, and of various Treatises on Metaphysics, Ethics and Theology. Uxbridge; where he keeps a very respectable school. solicitor, Furnival's Inn. took orders, and held a living near Wellingborough. took orders, and held a living in Essex. At the end of the Session, in June 1781, Mr. ROBINS resigned the office of Principal and Theological Tutor, on account of the loss of his voice, and was succeeded in September following by the Rev. THOMAS BELSHAM, under whose superintendence the following pupils entered the Academy. settled first at Plymouth, and afterwards at Kidderminster, as master of Mr. Pearsall's London; barrister at law. London; wine merchant; Bank Director. Stamford; became a tutor in the family of Benjamin Vaughan, Esq., M. P., whose sister he afterwards married, and settled at Hallowell, in the State of Maine, in North America. Narborough. Rotherham-Bury, Lancashire. Bolton. drowned in his passage to the East Indies. removed to Hackney College; became Clas sical Tutor; removed to Birmingham, and opened a respectable institution for young gentlemen; elected minister of the Old Meeting, which, to the great regret of the congregation, he was soon compelled to resign, on account of ill health. a youth from the Warrington Academy; who died in May, 1784, before the close of the Session. merchant, London. a colonel in the army. London. seceder from Caermarthen-Collumpton. Crediton; left the ministry and cntered into soon left the ministry and was called to the bar. from Caermarthen Academy-Stoke Newington, Wakefield. Cradley-Stourbridge. 1787, d. George Wiche, m. d. Thomas Patterson, in. John Kettle, Esq. Samuel Palmer, m. John Williams, m. Jonathan Eade, Esq. Remarks. removed to Hackney College-Plymouth DockHackney; colleague with Mr. Belsham at the Gravel Pit-St. Thomas's, SouthwarkNew Meeting, Birmingham, lately under Dr. Priestley; a most flourishing society. Chosen to Plymouth Dock; died of an apoplexy soon after he had finished his studies, and before he reached his destination. quitted the ministry; carried on a brewery at Old Down, near Bath. of Easton Grey, near Tetbury. of Berwick-upon-Tweed; obliged to desist from his studies on account of ill health. Hitchin, Herts. removed to Hackney College-Gateacre-Lancashire; highly distinguished as an eloquent leader of the popular party at Liverpool. America. John Finch Simpson, Esq. Launde Abbey, Leicestershire. John Willett, m. John Norris, m. left the Academy before he had finished his studies. Hans Busk, Esq. William Stevenson, m. Taunton. banker, London. died at Northumberland in North America. Chowbent; settled with a large and flourishing congregation of well-informed Unitarians. second son of Dr. Priestley, America. Stoke Newington. London. London. Thomas Warwick, m., M.D. Rotherham-Manchester. Classical Tutor at Manchester; private secre tary to Lord Lauderdale. d. David Jardine, m. d. T. Porter, m. Remarks. Plymouth-Newport-Isle of Wight-Bridge. water. Bath; highly respected; died of an apoplexy before he was thirty. highly acceptable; settled at Plymouth Dock; wrote an able defence of Unitarianism against Dr. Hawker; suddenly deserted the ministry, and emigrated to America. N. B. Messrs, Jardine and Porter left the Academy at Homerton to finish their studies at Daventry. la June 1789, the Rev. THOMAS BELSHAM resigned his situation as Tutor, on account of the change which had taken place in his theological sentiments: and the Academy was soon afterwards removed to Northampton, and placed under the care of the Rev. John Horsey. N. B. The account of the Academy under Dr. AsHWORTH, to the year 1766, is compiled chiefly from a paper communicated to me by the late Rev. JOHN COLE, of Wolverhampton. The remainder is taken from my own memorandums and recollections. Mr. COLE'S account was compared and corrected by Dr. ASHWORTH'S ledger. As April 7, 1822. SIR, S your learned correspondent, Mr. Cogan, has been kind enough to notice (p. 210) the inquiries which I lately made, through the medium of the Monthly Repository, (p. 76,) respecting the construction and interpretation of John xxi. 15, I beg leave, through the same medium, to state how far his observations appear to me to affect the interpretation in favour of which I have decided. "If," says he, "the sense were, 'Lovest thou me more than these?' the Greek ought to have been, ayanäs ɛpe whey TET." This remark, it will be observed, applies to two out of the three interpretations which have been given of this passage: "Lovest thou me more than thou lovest these things?" viz., the instruments employed in thy trade as a fisherman; and, "Lovest thou me more than thou lovest these T. B. thy fellow-disciples ?" Of course, therefore, it reflects upon the accuracy of Whitby, Pearce, Campbell, and aft commentators who have adopted or admitted the possibility of either of these interpretations. But I am far from being convinced that μe is never used in cases of opposition by the writers of the New Testament. That a comparison or a contrast is more strongly marked by εμον, εμοι and εμε, than by pov, por and μe, I am well aware; but that the authors of the New Testament have uniformly attended to this distinction is by no means evident. Take the following passages as examples: "He that cometh after me is mightier than I:" 66 uporεpos pov. Matt. iii. 11; see also Mark i. 7. My Father is greater than :" μeiswy pov. John xiv. 28. "Why callest thou me (e) good? None is good but one, that is God." Matt. xix. 17; see also Mark x. 18, and Luke xviii. 19. "If ye had known me, (ue,) ye should have known my Father." John xiv. 7. "He that loveth me, (us,) shall be loved of my Father." Ver. 21. 66 "As the Father hath loved me, (ue,) so have I loved you." John xv. 9. "Ye have not chosen me, ue,) but I have chosen you." Ver. 16. "But," says your correspondent, suppose the sense to be, Lovest thou me more than these love me?' the Greek is correct." Whatever the drift of our Lord's question may have been, it was far from my intention to deny the correctness of the Greek; for though the passage is now wrapt up in obscurity and ambiguity, owing to the imperfection of written language, it was no doubt painfully intelligible to the apostle when first uttered, and accompanied with a tone and gesture calculated to give it the intended effect. I merely observed that it was usual, when there was a strong opposition, to mark that opposition by inserting the pronoun; and gave this as a reason, not for denying the possibility, but for questioning the probability of the correctness of Doddridge's interpretation. I will now venture to add, that, if this had been the sense intended, the other apostles who were present, justly anxious to remove the imputation of being less zealous and sincere than Peter in their attachment to Jesus, would have been unanimous in endeavouring to free themselves from the consequences involved in such a comparison. When Christ said, during the last Supper, in the presence of the twelve, 66 Verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray ine," they "began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?" evidently with a view of eliciting some remark which would lead to their exculpation: and it appears to me highly reasonable to conclude, that a similar effort would have been made in the case supposed, to place their attachment to Jesus above the possibility of suspicion. But, as it is possible that I may still labour under some misconception respecting the passage which it has been the object of this and my former communication to illustrate, I shall still feel obliged to Mr. Cogan or any other reader of the Mon. Repos., who THE communication of your correspondent T. F. B., in your last Number, (p. 211,) brought forci bly to my mind an observation which I had made to a friend not a week ago, which was, that the Unitarians, while they have endeavoured to shew the absurdity of the popular doctrine of the atonement, have not sufficiently urged upon the public the true interpretation of the phraseology on which it is founded. This interpretation will, I conceive, be found in the Sermons of the late Mr. Kenrick. able and excellent man has satisfactorily shewn," that the death or blood of Christ has no efficacy in removing moral guilt, but that, whenever it is spoken of as procuring the forgiveness of sin, it relates entirely to restoration to a sanctified or privileged state, which in the language of both the Old and New Testament on many occasions is expressed by the forgiveness of sins." Sermon XIV. Vol. I. This Thirty years ago I was led to doubt whether the death of Christ and the forgiveness of sin (in the usual sense of this expression) were ever associated in the minds of the apostles, and Mr. K.'s Sermons have convinced me that my doubts were not groundless. To many, I am aware this declaration will appear strange, and will seem to indicate a wish to dispose of a plain Scripture doctrine by any expedient. Against strong prejudices it is not easy to reason with effect; I would, however, just suggest to such persons the advantages which attend the above-stated hypothesis. In the first place, it is founded upon a truly scriptural interpretation of Scripture phraseology. In the second place, it gives a view of the consequences of the death of Christ which is conformable to fact. In the third place, it is free from the difficulties which encumber every scheme of the atonement which the advocates of this doctrine have hitherto been able to devise. While I have my pen in my hand, I will make a remark or two upon an observation which I met with the other day in the Quarterly Review, and which |