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alienee , propriety of conduct in private life , and also propriety inthe public character k&e judicial capacity , which a minister in the country arid . ' church of Scotland , is Called to . act in , are
considered . 'Che third Lecture offers remarks on the iluinner in which the branches 6 trtheology at ? ove mentipped ought to be treated : that is , '• frOip . the chair of th £ professor , on wh-om a regular aitendauce fior four winters is the utmost to be expected from
the same set * of students ; and at a seminary , where part are coming _ aad part going , not every year but every month ** and every week and every day . In this lecture * the doctor lays dowqi the
Bu ' thod , which he pfopo § £ d to adopt . The fourth JLecture treaty of the conduct which students of divinity ought to pursue . Our' author ob § ervps here , as it were in passing , that *> historical 'knowledge is of immense
use in cr # icasip , froip the acquaintance to which it introduces us with , ancient manners , laws , rites and idioms /? The leading sybjecp of the next series of . Lectures in this ypkifne , is systematic theology . The first lecture , is * # Of the study of
Natural Religion , q , n . d of ' the Evi * . denies pf Christianity . " Iti this place ^ Dr . Campbell- suggests , * - that the use of reading elubo-* ate demonstrations of the .. being and attributes of G-od iW more
per . haps to fix our " attention on the object , thsun % o give conviction to the understanding . The natural evidenced of true "theisni are anpojag | he simplest iand- at the sanie timo the cleiirt ^ deductions from the effect ta , tli ^ cause-1 And it wer « to be- wished * that
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the subject had not been ra&fccf perplexed than facilitated , by the abstruse and metaphysical dis € U § -. sioxis , in which it hath b&msawG ? times involved . ' —Tho Baiifhod which our author supingly urges
on the &ude . al , to at tarn to a j . VL $ and compreheja « ive acquaintance vtith , the nature , evidence % &d doctrines of--.-Obristiani t / is net to ' read commeatators , systQAxatis ^ paraph rasts , cantraver U ^ is ,- d e * monstrations ^ confutations , apu *
logies , answers , --defences , cephefi and the like , 7 in -the ficst in ?> taixc& 4 but , " devoutly to study , th ^ s scriptures thpmtielves , ' ' with tjie aids to be derived from history , jc-wi&h , canonical and eccl ^ siastixf ^
from the study ef the sacked Ian * gnages with their idioms , l ^ omaja , acquaintance with the Septu&gmfc , from a knowledge of jewisji ^ and ancient customs ^ policy , Jaws suid manners , and foona tbe phikw ^ pJbyjf g £ the human m « wL This « ae ^
thod he recoiTimonds as what , fca his own experience he . kja 4 fbua 4 to au&wci ? best te& aftorswa *< te applied hitnself to th ^ pmaszlt Qf controvepsial writers anii pf tk& attacks made on qur religipt * * # q . 4 when on a little refti « CUonL b <* to
fo ^ nd himself able jeefu te . tk& antagonists * arg 4 amecitB , $ *« hover inquir i Gd about any . ansiveus that might have been paiblwhocj ^ H ® carried this au faron ^ c as ; tb sef about the publication , of , his answer to Mv . Itames subtle . attack .
on tfie Christian jreiigion , bvippe he bad an opportunity o £ ptrua * ing tjhro work- of , any forfxuiv an ; # s « vierer . Ikit with ing ^ otttu us cktudor , hqdoe ^ not mooirtfmtmA lf * i » conduct tb imitation . 'Hi' wtitihi gratify us to giy-e laiige . extrM&ti ftom this Lecture but-uwrfliE ^ iu && » ofc p ^ wn lt ilj . ? ua ^ Vve , rau « t
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Jl ^ fi 0 XD . r ^ -GiampbeWfi Lectures on Systematic Theology * £ & $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/37/
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