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Review. ' —Scotts Serfrion at Ditchling*...
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Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
for the editor to deprecate her displeasure for this Comment on her work , or rather on its present form ; a work which we heartily recommend to the attention of our
readers , .-If Jt shall meet with neglect * we shall lament the indifference of the Christian world , which can allow such a treasure
of Christian learning , as Mrs . C . has brought to light , especially
frotfi the stores of her pious and learned husband , to be dissipated without eagerly seeking the riches which it supplies . We come next to speak of the notes , which are for the most
part Mr . Cappe ' s . We do not wish that one of them had been suppressed They are sometimes very short , generally not long . Some may seem of no great importance : but they are like gold
filings , every one of which the artist saves with anxiety . They sometimes appear to us fanciful : but they are sparks emitted from the fire of true genius . Their general character is acuteness even
to eccentricity ; novelty that astounds ; simplicity that captivates ; originality that delights
Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
and electrifies ; justness that sel - dom fails to convince ; learning that never obtrudes , that generally recedes from notice , although it uniformly discovers and
establishes its undoubted claims , when it least asserts its rights . They are often practical , and sometimes critical , without appearing
so . A few such biblical scholars as Newcome Cappe in an age ,
would , withrn a short period , rescue Christianity from the mass of ignorance , superstition , and fanaticism , in which it has been for ages involved , and present the sun of truth and holiness to the
view of wondering nations , by which . light . arid heat would be diffused among millions to guide and animate them to everlasting life .
Mrs . Gappe has u generally adopted the construction of the phraseology , as well as the very words , of the common FEnslishl
version , except in a few instances , where the terms are nearly obsolete , and where the difference is merely verbal . " Pre f * p . xiii . P .
Art . II . The Nature , Origin and Effect of the Creation by Jesus Christy considered ^ in a Discourse ^ delivered at Ditchling ^ in Sussex , before the Southern Unitarian Society , on Wednesday , July 13 , 1808 . By Russell Scott , 12 mo . pp . 47 . Johnson , 1808 .
This is one of the several valuaw We Unitarian Tracts , which our prescribed limits have hitherto prevented us from noticing , and for our seeming neglect of which we have to solicit the candid indulgence of our correspondents and readers .
Mr . Scott takes for his text , Ephes . in 10 , which is accounted
the strongest passage of Scripture in favour of the notion that Christ is the Creator of the natural world ; and shoMvs , we think , by a chairi of irrefragable Scripture
proofs , that the apostle had in view only a moral and spiritual creation * The argument of the sermon is solid and . judicious ; the language perspicuous ; an 4
Review. ' —Scotts Serfrion At Ditchling*...
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/35/
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