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relic-ion, she took up, as wisdom itself would have directed, 
the°terms of that remnant, and made them her own, Thus 
another name « the Most High God,” which embodied the 
simple, original, primeval thought of man as he looked above 
him and saw one far off, was incorporated into sacred phrase- 
ology. Melchisedek, the Priest of the older religion, was 
“ Priest of the Most High God.” The earlier Canaamtes were 
of course familiar with this title, and hence as they came > upon 
the scene it re-appears. And so throughout the Old Testa 
ment we find variety and adaptation m the use of _ term i . 
There is unity of thought and sentiment, but with this a con- 
formity with historical law and usage m the employment o- 
ter T S The New Testament writers were differently situated ; 
they belonged to the same generation, were personally known 
to each other, and they had most of them been with that great 
inspiring Master who promised to guide them into all truth. 
Baptized into one body, they were inspired by one feeling and 
sentiment, and spoke the same thoughts, in a wondei fully 
strict and philosophical language. . 
5. But before entering upon a particular analysis of New 
Testament language, I would observe that mind is not strict y 
synonymous with spirit. The attributes usually ascribed to 
mind connect it very closely with our bodily organization. 
Most writers, as Morell, and the Germans, as Beneke, adopt a 
triple division when speaking of the attributes of mind. S 
W Hamilton arranged the phenomena of mind under the three 
heads of knowledge or cognition feeling, and conation or 
desire and will. The intellect has been regarded as the 
thinking portion of mind, including memory, abstraction 
reason ludgment, &c., as modes or varieties of intellect. In 
sensitivity has been regarded as the feeling portion 01 mind, 
sensibly ivy n a from external 
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all such modes or affections as arise from external 
Tction “and internal reflection. And the will has been called 
the moving portion of mind, the faculty of spont^nB 
Almost all writers have included, in modern times, thong , 
feeling, and will, in their classifications of mental phenomen . 
But it is obvious that in all this there is cross division. Bodj 
soul and spirit are included m these phenomena. And 1 
wish to mark that spirit, strictly speaking, is not synonymous 
with mind as thus understood, and that what is called psy^' 
loey, hut ought rather to he termed pneumatology, despite 
SbW. Hamilton’s difficulty about finding a • convenient 
adjective, should he kept clear of these modern classifications 
of the mind’s powers and affections. Spirit, soul, and *>3’ 
in the New Testament, are prime factors in human nature. 
