GREGORY BLUNT’S LETTERS 
solve what have hitherto been considered 
s very serious difficulties; and, in the 
sands of some one more accustomed to 
conduct investigations of this nature, 
TO GRANVILLE SHARP, ESQ. 135 
than we suspect the author is, it may 
be made to assume a form which may 
produce a fuller conviction of its truth. 
’ 
‘Axr. X. Six more Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq. on his Remarks upon the Uses of 
the Article in the Greek Testaznent. 
_ WE read with more attention, than 
We were soon convinced they deserve, 
the Remarks of Granville Sharp, and 
the letters addressed to him by Mr. 
Wordsworth. Jt: appeared to us, ac- 
cording to the motto selected by the 
writer before us from bishop Pearson’s 
‘works, that the deity uscribed to our 
wiour ought not to be tried by any 
such kind of school divinity: and that 
no fundamental doctrine should be exa- 
mined, censured, and condemned by ¢,s, 
zo. Thetheory of Mr. Sharp was how- 
ever proposed and defended with such 
imposing confidence, and so many hard 
words and illiberal reflections were cast 
out against those, whose creed is not 
exactly such as is generally professed 
upon the subject of the person of Christ, 
that we not only expected, but were 
desirous that some champion would ap- 
year to take up the gauntlet which the 
doubted knights of the Greek article 
had thrown down. Gregory Blunt, 
though skilful and valorous, is not ex- 
actly the person upon whom our choice 
would have rested; nor does he use his 
weapons according to the rules which 
we should have prescribed. He has 
fought, however ; and impartiality com- 
pels us to confess that he has prevailed: 
and no wonder, since he opposed the 
weak flourishes of a magician’s airy 
wand, by «a ponderous club of argu- 
‘ent; and sent against’ the rust-eaten 
armour of mouldering fathers, the ar- 
tows of reason, ‘ 
: wuex Gern 
PuvivrTz cuverciosy® 
To remain uninterested spectators of the 
contest was impossible ; but we should 
have been better pleased had our knight 
Gregory conducted himself in a more 
courteous manner, appeared more sen- 
sible of the dignity of the character he 
‘sustained, and withheld himself from 
pouring ridicule upon a fallen foe. Upon 
‘entering the field he thus salutes his ad- 
_Versary: 
«There previously declare, that though I 
_ don't know you, yet’ from all I hear, I 
i *® «© Homerus Hebraizans.” 
By Grecory Biunt, £59. 
8vo. pp- 195. 
firmly believe you to be as honest and good 
a man as myself, and am willing to suppose 
that you may be a much better, already pos- 
sessed of many virtues which I aim only 
Jahouring to acquire; and that im this per- 
suasion { greatly reverence your character, 
and should be sorry to give you pain: though 
1 must say, that you don’t know much 
about the Greek article, nor about christi- 
anity, or you would never have dreamt of 
looking for the latter in the former. 
*¢ When I say christianity, | do not mean 
practical christianity, which, in my opinion, 
formed upon a careful perusal of my bible, 
though not it seems in your's, is the only 
real, genuine christianity ; containing all that 
Jesus and his apostles ever put into their 
religion. No, Sir; God forbid I should de- 
rogate in the sinallest degree from your know- 
ledge of that christianity, which cannot be 
described in fewer, or better words than 
those of the apostle, ** the cross of Christ;” 
and which consists in crucifying all our 
worldly and selfish appetites and lusts, and 
in being ‘* dead indeed unto sin.” This 
christianity, which, because it was so plain 
and simple, and had so little to do with 
learned systems, disputes, and controversies, 
was foolishness to the Greeks of old, as it 
still continues to be to many modern Greeks 
and disputers of this world, and is in danger 
of being rendered every day more and more 
foolish by such labours as your’s—this chris- 
tianity you and I, and all of us, understand 
well enough ; because the true religion of 
Jesus is so plain, that no one ever did, or 
could ‘ajentlersena it; though none of us 
cultivate it with such care and strictness as 
we ought to do; and for that réason alone 
we live so uncomfortably together, and have 
so much wretchedness and misery to come 
plain of among us; and must continue so 
to live and to complain till our christianity 
be less in our heads, and more in our hearts. 
«* No, Sir; when I say that you do not 
know much about christianity, I mean the- 
oretical christianity ;—a thing which you 
and many others, for want of knowing bet- 
ter, suppose to be, in some shape or other, 
the christianity of the seriptures, but which, 
in eyery shape that it can assume, and it can 
and does occasionally assume a greater va- 
riety of forms than ever Proteus did,’ has 
nothing of christianity belonging to it but 
the name. I mean the motley christianity 
- which men fabricate by sewing scraps and 
bits of texts together, asthey make a history 
of the Jews out of Homer,* or of the gos- 
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