MY CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, In all theological controversies our appeal lics to the Bille, which contains the writings of the inspired prophets, and of the apostles and evangelists, who have recorded the precepts and doctrines of Christ, To those who lived in the times in which these books were published, they were, no doubt, very intelligible ; the language in which they are written, and the customs to which they allude, being perfectly known to them. But what was easy to them, a long course of time has rendered extremely difficult to us, who use a very different language, and whose manners and customs are so exceedingly unlike those of the · Jews. On this account, it may puzzle the greatest scholar of the present age to make out the sense of a It |