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front the patkof duty ; and if they permit themselves to be seduced , ( hey are to be doomed' by Mm to an eternity of torments in hell t I state not the melancholy tendency of this system upon my own opinion or authority , but oa the authority , and as the opinion of one who
must be considered as an impartial * j&dge iff this case , Ehr . Joseph Mason Cox ; ? who belonged , from his- childhood till his death , to that class of Christians usually denominated Particular , or Calviaistie , Baptists . In his practical treatise on insanity , he observes , My experience has
furnished many unhappy instances * in which the misplaced , injudicious zeal of preachers has induced hypochondrias ** f in others , insanity of the most incurable species and moping melancholy often terminated by suicide . Professors Off this description , with the very best intentions ,
too frequently make no allowance for the peculiarity of natural dispositioa , and impute to serious conviction and celestial influence what more properly belongs to incipient disease , or the agency of certain moral and physical causes . Nothing is more calculated to depress hope and i / i-
duce despondency , than the indiscriminate practice of minutely describing , in the most glowing colours , the effects and consequences of sin , the Iioitotb of hell , and the sufferings of the damned ; dwelliug on the judgments , more than on the mercy , and the goodness , ef the Deity . And 1 remember to have heard Dr .
Masoarf deeply lament this tendency in what he termed ' the terrors of the gospel / " —Pp . 332—336 . We wish the author had suppressed the passage , pp . 4 ? 4—426 , in which he treats almost with levity tb , e statement in Acts xix . 12 , that " handkerchiefs or aprons" from the body of
Paul possessed a healing virtue . Mr . Evanson has , we know , denounced the passage a » spurious ; but it is we think unwarrantable and dangerous to apply the pruning-knife ad libitum to the Scriptures , and upon a supposed incongruity or improbability to disregard and set aside the united testimony of all MSS . and all versions . In this case , there appears . to us to be no necessity for such a proceeding ,
- «• Physician to the loug ± established Asylum for Lunatics , at the Vteh Ponds , near Pristol . " + ** Who belonged to the same class of ChHhkians , and was grandfather to Dr . Goto , attd his predecessor In that wellconducted establishment . "
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eVGrt itfere it grained that aay parti , cuter theory must be supported at all hazards . Tbfc Lecturer does not in oot judgment state the case fully when he represents the Ephesi-aii Exercists ( Acts xix . 19 ) as burning , ratbtr than
selling' their books because they taught practices which were in opposition to the pr inciples and precepts ef the Christian religion ( p . 42 B ) . These books were recipes for conjuring , ' E < p £ < rta , < ypa , fAp , &T ( z , spells er charms , and the converted magicians destroyed
them because they were the known instruments of imposture , fraud and robbery , which are contrary to the principles and precepts of all religions . * Having concluded the investigation of the various passages of Scripture th » t refer to the Devil , the author proceeds in Lectures XVIII . XIX . XX .
XXI . and XXII . to explain the language of the Bible , considered as referring , under the English term Hell , to a place of future punishment . He discusses at large the meaning of the words Sheol , Hades and Gehenna . He proves , we think , that Sheol , which in our version of the Old
Testament is often rendered Heif , would be more truly translated , at least in the majority of instances , by the word grave . The following bold criticism would be more intelligible at Portsmouth than at some other places :
* ' The next instance m point of tune in which we find Sheol , is Jonah ii . 3 , where the prophet says , that he prayed to God out pf the belly of Sheol , i . e . HeU , according to our translators ; but Grave , according to Archbishop Newcome . Jonah
is speaking of hia great deliverance by the kind providence of God , who , when he was nearly overwhelmed and sinking in a tempestuous sea , provided for his escape from a watery grave , by another ship , whose crew seeing his danger , went to his relief , and rescued him when he was in the very jaws of death , * from
corruption / nnttf , shacath , the grave : he had rieen on the waves and descended with them , he had been down to the bottoms of the mountains ; the earth ? with her bars , was about him for ever .
Ver . 6 . While thus in the midst of the waves ; now on the top of the mountain of the sea , and now at the bottom ; ft * " this bed ef death , thia belly of Sh € O *> he cried unto the Lord , wha heard mm-Ver . 2 . When taken from this perilous
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 724, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1791/page/44/
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