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oressitfe of what appeared more im-Ktfe duties , and partly from an apprehen sion induced by the slow circulation of the former work , and the little notice it seems to have excited , that the time was not yet come when his laborious researches in the extensive field of scripture criticism , would be justly appreciated .
Y our respectable correspondent will probably be glad to hear that another volume of Mr . Cappe s sermons is preparing for the press , which it is my intention to dedicate to the young men educated in the York College .
Thejust , extensive and striking views tjey every where exhibit of the divine goodness , and of human duty , of the hopes and fears , the important interests and final , expectations of rational and accountable beings , may
operate , it is hoped , as a powerful stimulus , in aid of the able instruction they are daily receiving from their excellent tutors , to the attainment of that exemplary conduct ; that purity of heart and holiness of life , which is the best and only effectual recommendation of more just and enlightened
principles . Since the first publication of " The Life of Christ , " 1 have had an Index printed of the passages and phrases of scripture explained or illustrated in the notes , with reference to the page ,
book , chapter and verse , and will send a few copies to Mr . David Eaton , bookseller , High Hofborn , requesting him to give a copy to any possessor of the volume as it \ yas first circulated , who may desire to have it . By an early insertion of the above
you will much oblige , Sir , Your constant reader , CATHARINE CAPPE .
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writers . During the first century , the propagation of our religion was entrusted to a higher agency than human abilities ; when Providence ceased to interest itself so directly in its behal f the Christian scholar cultivated with no ordinary success the powers of reason and the gifts of learning . The second and third centuries are
distinguished by a crowd of eminent writers y never were dialectics more skilfully employed , nor philosophy pressed into a better service , nor eloquence used with a more brilliant effect * Tertullian , though he cannot be classed
with the best authors of the age of the Antonines , possessed a rough , but flowing eloquence , was well versed in the philosophy of the times , and a master of its polite literature . In Minutius Felix he found a formidable
rival , or a happy imitator . Arnobius does not- sink beneath the level of their composition , and Cyprian rises above it by the noblest efforts of eloquence and learning . But it was in the fourth century , when the language was almost los $ in
a corrupt and barbarous dialect , that the Christians proved its last and truest friends , and took a distinguished lead in literary pursuits and philosophical studies . The emperors wisely encouraged a spirit of emulation amongst them , founded schools , erected libraries , and lavished honours on the most
eminent scholars . That they far excelled their Pagan opponents has never been denied . Hilary of Poitiers was an able and fluent writer , and Lactantius has often been compared and once preferred to the first name in Latin eloquence , St . Ambrose was a learned and powerful composer . To mention the name of St . Jerome
is to convey the idea of a laborious , profound , animated , and eloquent author . No one will dispute the merits of St . Augustine : and Sulpicius Severus , tlie Christian Sallust , claims equal commendation for the orthodoxy of his doctrine and the latinity of his style .
Of these writers it is not too much to say , that their labours were eminently serviceable at this period of their exertion , < mdthey have the merit of supporting the cause of learning to the very last moment that it was tenable . With the civilians , the theologians may claim the honour of contributing to preserve the existence anj }
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The Fathers . E lately gave [ p . 15—21 ] the Wcharacter of the Fathers in an e'oqueut paper v from the Edinburgh Review . Lest the young student should
be lulled into a neglect of these nters by so peremptory and unfavorable a sentence , we here present ^ with . a brief account of the Latin Jtthfirs , from a work of considerable fU , namely , An Introduction to the
alTVf « r mstar V ° f the Fourteenth f ifteenth Centuries , ( 8 vo . 1798- ) « M PP- 25- —27 . now M p Was tne cause of learning less » wertuUy supported by the Christian
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/17/
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