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    mouth of tfie ^ itrSayer , ' that * stK 4 i . 'indiilgience of an over , curious and restless spirit of research ntfay . have a tendency to Unsettle the , minds of the young and unexperiertoeid ^ and tfo'famish ' . the scoffer with fresh topics of p rofane raiHetybr Site de 6 laniatiota V' "anii yet he aiimits in ifoe same page , by a happy stultification of this ecclesiastical Enunciation against agitating points decided hy " the general : cotisetit dfwise and goad m £ n , " ( by which ,

    as he well knows , Bach atiri leveiy abuse rhais been saiiciiotied , till some one found out that these " ** wise and -good men" occasionally possess a very doubtful title to one or other of the epithets , ) that " on the whole , the discussion to which it has already given rise-will be productive of good . " Surely , Dr . Maltby has been brought up in too good a school to put much faith in this nostrum for strengthening weak muids , by Jteepiog from 4 hem the means of exercise and invigoration . He * must . know-by experience -what is meant

    when a man is very eager to stpp an inquisitive reasoner by a zeal for " the cause of God ' and tfoe church / ' The tfne ,-he ' mayrest assured , is not very iikeiyto beiiiuttbyany thing of the sort , thotrghthe 6 thermay very well be stUimes ? in danger , < anri ttever ' more so ' ' thaiv « wfeen kptfets its face against the exercise of reason in nexamiaing propc ^ oris by whatever " consent" they are -established . > The author of the work 'which he examines so successfully in .-the greater ^ portion 4 > f his Sermon , has ^ haptoiiy anticipated this kind eif

    timid policy by an appropriate passage fr&m J Dr . Middleton , which Porsoh - ^ as accu ^ settned to 'repeat in conversation with enthusiasm , and which we ^ cannot ido > betlfr than record : * ' ^ To *^ peak may tnmd freely on the subject of scmsequ&rttes ;—^ 1 persuade myself that' the life 1 and faculties of man , at the -bestt « it-short and limited , cannot be employed * more rationally or laudably than in the search of knowledge , atfd especially ^ f that sort whi 6 h relates to

    ' our d&ty attd * conduces to our happiness . In these inquiries , therefore , -tH ^ e ^ rever I perceive aay glimmering of tnith ^ before me , I readily pursue and cerideavcfor to trace it to its ^ source , w'ithmit 'any reserve or caution of pur-» seing fchat discovery too ; far , or of opening too great a g lare of it upon the i public . I look upon the discovery 6 f any thing whic * h is true as a valuable "acquisition to-society , ^ which cannot p 0 ss $ b } y hurt or ^ b ^ trtict the good effect i&f '»* iy J > ther tnith whatsoever ; for they all partake cof one common- essence , ncide with each

    ^^ rtdnecegsar ^ coi dth ^ r p and , hkethedrops 6 i ram which ~ ftdl « ep&Pately into the river , mix : * herase ) vfcs at once with the stream , and * Btren ^ hen the general current . ' * l fether l of-the' HypGthesis , which , tinder some modifications , has been -tevivdd by the i ieapnexl'author 6 fl : he Pafeeo ^ omaica , ^ was ? the -Je 3 % it Hardouiti , > who , ^ as Voltaire observed , " h ' etait pas ^ absolumeht Ibu , mais dont la itpftisOn ^ tait ^ s ^ j ^ rticuH ^ re . " He was , nevertheless , a learned and acdte ' scholar . His speculations on this point Aid n 6 t appear tiJl after his'death ,

    and some hsfcve lookea at that fact as evidence of secret ^ scepticism , whdle ipdrfeapscJthets might beinoline ^ d to suspect from it that the Hypothesis was never- very setiot&ly maintained by the author , arid' that he Md fallowed it « p more as a mere speculation than as a matter with which he was either satftfied hiwiself or expected any one ^ lse would kbe so . ^ Harfdouin * s theory i& in substance , tfaatf the present Greek * text , inwhatever MSS . existtaff , " is only a translation ; and that ^ hat we call'the Latin ve rsion ,

    < ( bv v which lie seems to understand the present Vtil ^ ate , ) is really the orreTinal . ^ When , however , ^ we asCnbe the invention 'bf truVtheory to ttardouin , we ^ ttght to give ^ t he credit of somewhat' of a foreshadowing of it to the Gomp lumnsfen Editors , who paid ^ the 5 Vulgate the compliment ( at the expense ik > thof » the © re % k and Syriac ) of ^ kening it to our Saviour between the two

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    14 Original Ldnguage of the "Books of the Mew Testament .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/14/