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the poffibility, and even probability, of 
invafion ? 
13. Docs not that probability increafe 
as the war continties, and as other fcenes 
of aétion are clofed or clofing ? 
14. Would there not, in cafe of inva- 
fion, be a necefiny of fuch efforts as can 
only be made by an united people, in- 
firucted in the ufe of arms, prompt and 
firm in the energy of univerfal refiftance 
to attack? 
15. Does government ufe the means, 
and act upon the principles, neceflary to 
create /uch a nation as an emergency like 
this ought to find us? 
16. Is not the moft fpeedy PEACE, 
and fuch as fhall not leave the appearances 
and effeéts of an armed truce, rather than 
of fincere and permanent pacification, 
clearly and indifpenfibly requifite to us 
upon every principle of policy, duty, 
neceffity ? 
17. Willfuch Peace come unlefs called 
for by the voice of the NaTIon ? 
18. Ought not the nation, therefore, im- 
mediately to call for peace, by fuch means 
as the public meeting-aét has left us ? 
19. Ought not every part of the nation, 
feeling the neceffity, and fenfible it mnift 
daily increafe, to be emulous in fetting 
the example ? 
March 11, 1797+ A aoa 
See ‘ 
Go the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
w OUs correfpondent THomas Tay- 
LOR, in‘the Number for February 
laft, propofes an interpretation of He- 
brews x!1.3, which feems to be unrea- 
fonable, and is certainly unntceffary. 
By the word atwyec, in that paflage, I’ 
would underftand imply, ¢he ages, or the 
periodical diftributions of revclation, 
from the beginning of time, to the anti- 
diluvians, patriarchs, Ifraelites undex 
the law, the fuccellions of prophets, 
French National InffitutesClaf: of Moral ce. 285 
and, finally, the preachers of the pol- 
pel. Such communications of the divine 
will are faid, in Hebrews i. 1, to have 
been delivered, in numerous parcels, and - 
ina variety of ways, ‘To this effect, we 
are told in {everal paffages of the old and 
new Teftaments, of the prefent and fu- 
ture age, or difpenfation of religion ; and 
all thefe ages are faid to haye been con- 
ftituted with reference to Chrift, cr 
chriftianity, Heb. 1.25; as that fyftem, 
in which all preceding communications 
would find their completion and repole. 
In the verfe, therefore, under difcuffion, 
the writer lays down a general {pecimen 
of trufiin the providential arrangement of 
things, before he proceeds to exemplity 
this perfuafion, in the characters of sd: - 
viduals. 1 would propofe the following 
paraphrafe of the fentence: ‘ Froma 
confident conviction of the diyine 
adminiftration of the univerfe, we affure 
ourtelves, that all the diftributions of re- 
velation, in different ages, as delivered 
in the {criptures, are modelled bythe ap- 
pointment of God himfelf, in order to 
the production of the prefent fyftem of 
religious faith: a fyftem, which tran- 
fcends, in the wifdom of its contrivance, 
and the condué of its means, all the power 
of human forefight and fagacity.”’ 
With ftill lefs plaufibility does another 
correfpondent, R.M. in your Magazine, 
for March, p. 175, endeavour to prove, 
that the Sy Sx is the Ea, or Yd:ccG, 
of Sanchoniathon, in Eufeb. Prep. 
Evang.-i. 10. His fuggeittion were to- 
lerable, if the fame-term had not been 
employed afterwards, in Numb. xxiy. 
16; Dent. xxx. 89°. te Same xe rac 
Pfalms, vil. 185 If xivgi4a: and elle. 
where. ‘There can be but little doubt, 
I fhould think, that Elioun was fuch an 
expreifion of the Hebrew word, with the 
heathen writers, as Izw was of mw, or 
Febvvab, 
Hackney, April 17, 1797+. G.W. 

Held on the 15th of Nivofe; or the 5th of Fanuary, 1797. 
(Concluded from our laft Numoer. D 
CLASS OF MORAL AND POLITICAL 
SCIENCES. 
See aS an aflociated member, com- 
municated two memoirs on the 
analyfis of thought, or rather on the 
faculty of thinking ; which he alfo calls 
the faculty of perceiving. —He propofes, 
i 
that the fctence which refults from tunis 
analy fis, be named sdeology, or the fcience 
of ideas, in order to diltinguifh it from’ 
the ancient metaphyfics. According to’ 
him, this fcience is almoft entirely new, 
and pofieffes few evident and generally 
acknowledged truths, notwithftanding 
the labours of many celebrated men; 
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