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forgotten as g iven ; and even if they were wot forgotten , as they could not be put 5 a practice , for want of the * necessary implements recommended , they "would serve only as an * excuse for idleness . I would as much as possible supply this defect ; and allow me to add , I would deprive every one of you if I can , of that silly pretext for doing nothing , that you have not books . I insist upon it , that the young student while he has the
Bible , may still be usefully employed . " p . 184 , 185 , 186 , 1 * 7 . The books , to which in the preceding passage there is a reference , as recornmended to the student in theology , are , besides the History and Antiquities of Joseph us , Vitringa de Synagoga vetere , Reland de rebus Sacris J u-
dseorum , Lewis s Antiquities of the Hebrew Republic , Godwin ' s Moses and Aaron , Cunaeus de republica Hebraeorum , Bertram de republica Judaica , BuxtorFs Lexicon talmudicum and his Sy-
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nagoga Judaica r and , as greater proficiency is made , Selden and Spencer . Our author subjoins * to the enumeration of these books ; " If you should not happen to meet with any of these for some time , I am far from thinking that great progress may not be made by your own application only , with the assistance . of the
original languages , and the translation of the Septuagint . I "would never have any young man , who has a tolerable capacity , and is willing to use it , to be discouraged for want of books , " p , 154 , 155 .
We will only add , that these cc Lectures" of Dr . Campbell highly merit to be added to th@ list of Tracts on the ministerial
character , which Dr . Toulmin has prefixed to his recent edition of the judicious , comprehensive and valuable Treatise of Mr Mason , entitled " The Student and Pastor . " T .
Art . III . Cruelty to Dumb Creatures , a sinful Abuse of that Power originally delegated to Man ^ and inconsistent with the Christian character : a Sermon preached in the Churches of St . John and JSt .-Mary Devizes . On Sunday , August the l 6 t % , 1807 , ut the request of the Rev . Henry Brindlej / y of Lacockj Wilts . By the Curate of Devizes . 8 vo / pp . 23 / Is ,
On taking up a Sermon with tins title , we little expected to find , at the very opening of it , what John Calvin styles " a barbarous , insipid , and profane word * , " the wordTM ' NlTY ,
staring us in the face in large capitals . But so it is . For the preacher , speaking of the creation of man , observes , that " here God puts , as it were , his own hand to the * ork ; and the blessed TRINITY
) s represented to us as determining tht : creation of man , as an extraordi nary work . —Let us make
man in ouu image , after our likeness . "—It follows , however , in the next verse , " So God created man in his own image : "—But this , we suppose , it did not suit the preacher ' s purpose to introduce .
The preacher grounds his plea for humanity to dumb creatures on these two considerations ; 4 c first , that ' they are all the work of God ' s hands , and secondl y ^ that the grant of dominion over them , which was given to man , constituted him only lord of the
A H ^ artm ^ uthcr say s , it were better to call Almighty God , God , than Trinity . And John CaWin says , the word Trinity is barbarous , insipid , profane /—~ - —JSca * wdecai ' a Fir . t JLcttw , P- 75 > 4 to . E& . -
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Reviews—A Sevmony bu Cruelty to Dumb Creatures * % W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/41/
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