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    author of the New Translation , very judiciously observes , is the jirst duty ?// an expositor , without which it is if >> pot > vihLe to discover what other tiatns are couched under it . rhough it has been

    terribly nt ^ iecied . " Mr . Hnunt-r communicates his plan in Remark xii . and xiii . of the Outlines . Dr . Priestley

    remarks on this poem , ( Noies 11 . 92 . ) that every attempt made to give a spiritual meaning to it , has only served to throw ridicule on those who have undertaken it /'

    Yet Mr . Harmt > r found the gospel-state adumbrated in the Song oj Songs 1 adducing Qi the likeness * * we may observe between Solomon ^ marrying a Gentile princess ,

    and making her equal in honour and . privileges with his former Jewish qtfeen , and in her being frequently mentiirjied afterwards in history , while the other is passed ovtr in total silence ; and the

    conduct of the Mts . siah towards the Gnenfile and Jewish'chinches . *' This learned Bid / icist was still further satisfied with bis plan , because * the universal church is spoken of under the notion of a bride * and the Messiah as her

    husband , Ephes v . He round also support in " St . Paul ' s method of explaining the history ** f Sarah and Agai , " and at lewgth arrived at all tha determtnatenc $$ chat can

    be expected , in a matter tkat has bee ^ n % o perplexed by the learned , and " as he added , unlike ajitrce polemic , a of no greater consequence to our salvation /'

    The New Translation gave occasion to another work which appeared some years after . It v * a ^ published anonymously at Edinburgh , in 177 $ , and entitled * The Song of Solomon , Paraphrased ,

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    with an Introduction , containing some remarks on a late Nevr Translation of this Sacred Poem : also a Commentary and Notes , Critical and Practical . Written in the year 1769 . " This work is

    dedicated to Bishop Lovvth , and introduced by a letter to an unnamed reverend friend , in which the writer acknowledges his obligations to the New Translation , but proceeds to shew , that it is , in his * apprehension , both defective and faulty , in several respects . *' This commentator is certainlv

    more at home , in the spiritual sense of the Canticles , than his precursor , a disposition likely to be encouraged by " Dr . Gill's Explanation of the Divine Song , ' * which he had just met with , as well as Harmer ' s Outlines * To both works he frequently refers .

    He not only speaks ' * of Christ the heavenly bridegrom , whom Solomon , in this poem is certainlymeant to represent , '' but his fancy runs riot upon this notion , till he presently adds , " The author of the book oif Canticles , ( for Solomon , as the rest of the prophets ^

    was only the instrument , ) the au « thor , I say , was not a man , but he who judges right ; not from appearances , nor from any irregular motion in his own breast , as man does , but who knows the inmost thoughts of his frail imperfect creatures . " The "

    threescore queens and fourscore con * cubines , " are considered as a sort of heir looms , descended to Solo , rnon , " the spoils of war in his father ' s tirtie , the purchase of ; his

    own treasure , or fallen to him as his . regal inheritance . " Having thus di ^ posed of these bosom slaves * Whom eastern tyrants from tke light of heaven icclttdC "" ¦ ¦ ¦¦ !¦¦ >

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    Literary Memoir of Dr . Percy late Bishop oJtJDromore . f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/7/