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Art . III . Illustrations of the Four Gospels ; founded on Circumstances peculiar to our Lord and the Evangelists . By John Jones . Svo . pp . 6 * 4-4 . London . Printed for Longman , Hurst , and Co * 1808 .
We have read these Illustrations with much interest and pleasure , and we thi-nk it impossible for any one to close trjis volume , after an attentive and careful perusal , without feeling an increased satisfaction in the study of the N . T . or without clearer and more comprehensive views of the meaning : of many of those passages , which the learned and ingenious author endeavours to elucidate . This writer is particularly entitled to commendation for the
steadiastutss with which he opposes any conjectural emendation of the original text ; and it would not be difficult to point out several instances in which he has developed
the meaning of the sacred writers , Where the obscurity of their language has led others to suspect , that the text lias been corrupted . Mr . Jones has also the merit of
p nibraeing every just occasion of pointing out the internal evidence of the tiMth of the evangelical records , arising" from the genuine sim plicity of the writers , and from their uniform consistency iu relating circumstances , which would
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have escaped the attention of the : author of a c * cunningly devised fable , '' or have betrayed his artitice if he had attempted to introduce them . * This volume is professedly , writ * ten for the benefit of persons of plain sense- } who seek religious "improvement , ** on which account , 66 classical quotations , learned references and verbal criticisms "
are avoided . It is only justice tp the writer to acknowledge , that his general mode of illustration is adapted to the capacities of all ,, who make the study of the scri ptures an object of serious
attention ; but certainly some previous knowledge of the opinions of pro - fessed Christians , and of the ques - tions which have been agitated bv diiferent sects , is necessary to the * reader who can enter into the
meaning , and perceive the importance of the disquisitions , whfcli artf introduced by this writer . Without . such knowledge , little interest will be excited even by the most luminous and best imagined passages of this valuable performance . This is not the fault
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ft ' etoie& . '^ Jortts ' s Illustratixxns of the Four Gmpets . 395
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to aft . excellent charitable institu- shewing that contempt and arrotioKi we confess that we cannot gance ate insufferable even in the look with favourable eyes . upon mightiest minds , it makes one the legacy thus bequeathed , by young adventurer in the fields pf the deceased prelate , to the lite- learning and theology , modest , rary world . Still , in < one respect , candid and forbearing , it will have the book may be of use : if , in a served a purpose of no trifling jingle instance , it represses that moment ; however little it was taste for the high seasoning of contemplated either by . War burcontroversy which some polemics ton himself , or by the most disliave unfortunately acquired , if it tinguished of the Wartwtoniau teaches such men how Christianity school . ought not to be-defended j if , by
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/41/
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