![]() ![]() ![]() However, Smart believed that salvation would not require a strong intellectual understanding of the Bible. Like the Hymns for the Amusement of Children, Smart's The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ were designed to teach morals to the young. The Critical Review simply stated that the work revealed Christopher Smart's poetry as being "unequal" and of "the lower class", and while it "may certainly be of use" to children, it could not "please their imaginations, or improve their taste in poetry." Parables of Our Lord However, this dedication to a child of three incurred a review from the Monthly Review stating, "This version of the parables is, with great properiety, dedicated to Master Bonnell George Thorton: a child of three years old", which was intended to mock the simplicity of the Parables. This is so evident, that though you are yet scarce three Years of Age, you will soon be able to read and understand it: and in a Season will reflect, I trust, with Pleasure that you have been the Patron of a well-intended Work, almost as soon as you could go alone." "There are sundry Instances of our Blessed SAVIOUR'S Fondness for Children, as a Man and He has assured us, we can have no Part in Him without imitating their Innocence and Simplicity. Bonnell Thorton was a close friend of Christopher Smart, and he worked with Smart on The Student magazine and supported Smart during and after his time in a mental asylum. They were dedicated to the young son of Christopher Smart's friend, Bonnell Thornton. The Parables were printed in March 1768 and were advertised in the London Chronicle on 31 March 1768. The Parables, as with Hymns for the Amusement of Children, was part of Smart's attempt to create Christian religious literature dedicated to children. The book depicts the parables in verse form. The Parables are a collection of parables from the Bible, which includes lessons from both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Done into Familiar Verse, with Occasional Applications, for the Use and Improvement of Younger Minds was written by Christopher Smart and published in 1768. For the original work, see Parables of Jesus. This article is about the book written by Christopher Smart in 1768. ![]()
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