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Art . I . —< d Course of Lectures , containing a Description and Systematic Arrangement of the several Branches of Divinity : accompan ied with an Account both of the principal Authors , and of the progress which has been made at dijfterent Periods , in TTieoIogical Learning . By Herbert Marsh , D . D . F . R . S . and F . A . S ., Lord Bishop of
Peterborough , and Margaret Professor of Divinity . " Part . VII . On the Authority of the Old Testament . Cambridge : printed by Smith ; sold by Deightons , &c . $ and in London by C . and J . Rivingtoh . 1823 . 8 vo . pp . 69 . V- npo believe the Christiaa reli-1 gion , " says Dr . Hartley "is to believe that Mpses and the prophets , Christ and his apostles , were endued with divine authority , that they . had a commission from God to act and teaek as , they did , and . that he will verify their declarations concerning "
future things j , aiid r especially , those concerning a future life * by the § vent ; or , in otfcer t words , ; it is to receive the Scriptures as our rule of life , ajid the foundation of all our hopes aad fears . " Cordially - assentiug to the
justness and importance of these -remarks , we are happy tfrat the subject of the Seventh , P « tf K pf Bishop Marsha Course of I ^ ecture ^ is " the . Authority of the Old . Te ^ t ^ ent : " nor could i # e have objected to its havipg been made the topic of a foregoing set .
llie Professor ' s thirtyrfirst lecture , begins wi ^ i a statement of his reasons for treating . p ^ mwolyi # t- tl * f > . aiitk ^ - ticity and edibility *> f the < Jhris | iau ^• nptures : ., , ,, , When wfe undertake to establish ™ e authoHty of different records , the question , which of tfaemv * haU rh ^ first Wmntet to ejtam ia ^ inn ) v&wfapvn&vn of !!! tan ^ ' v * mn ®^ mW * twforto . tomposition ; aud thcit arraoaement Q lUSt alum .. il' v ' ' ^ ' ^ i | w ' ww * 7 ~ mtWr * wT ~ XT ' i » to ^* Lf ? « ? ^ # * W * - «^* ~ ^^ gM ^^ mm
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No > v to this statement w < e cannot subscribe without reserve ' mid 0 tf $ fynaf ' ion . * ' TK ?* arrangemeiit ^ n ? S ^ qe ** the most satisfjactory , " or , iit oilier words , extrepa ^ ly commpdiousVtp t ^ e instructor , whiqh is far From betog ^ b
to tlie reader or the hearer . For o urselves , arid on such a | heme , we shall always prefer the order which . b . est accofdjs with the nature of tfie question , whieh is the fairest , the mpst ingenuous and legifimale , and " which ehair be least exposed to . objections from the impugners o ^ Revelation . "
" But , says the Margaret Professor , and he says , justly , f € the records which cbntaiji the Mosaic apd Christian religions , must riot be cbiif 6 unded with the religions themselves" " H ( e further remind ^ us , that" the authority pf therecord which conveys " tfie Christian covenant , inay ^ examirieil without reference to the record which conveyed the former covenant : " arid henqe he would infer , that as the authenticity and credibility of the New
Testataerit were established by arguments which are . wholly independent of the Old Testament , so we may legitimately reason from the authority of the records of the Christian , to the authority of the records of the Jewish dispensation . ( 2 , 3 . ) v
ne admit the mutual independence of tlie two grand divisions of t $ e Scriptures ' : yet in " tlie ^ practical ajgplication of tjieprinciple we di ^ r frbtn this writel-. The' Pro fessor ' s observation ^ pTpvo no xnore than that we may treat of * the , eyidepqes of t |^ e authority of the Old audW theevjdepces of the * apthority of the N ^ jv Tfestamdit m ; adverted ; order Ch&t Ee do ^ B no ' t shew * Qwt this arrahgement ought to be adopted , oince \ jm i date , tUan pfjm ^ ^ ytyBUQffl seem to demand , a pITor examwation : tlie rather , as tlie ^ idencTb , fortbe most part , mt&t&ttttarm m aitf of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1823, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1789/page/33/
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