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    omit to state , that in the course of his examination of the treatise against Prafceas , he has dearly shewn that Tertullian , so fat from alluding to 1 John v . 7 i knew nothing ** f the verse * . \ . The next heretic in Mosheim ' s catalogue is Hermogenes , who , regarding matter as the source of all evil , could not persuade himself that it was created by God , but maintained that it had existed from eternity * Against this hypothesis Tertullian wrote a distinct treatise , of which our author has

    given a brief analysis , which he thus concludes : " In one part of his reasoning he ( Tertullian ) must be allowed to have been successful , in shewing that the theory of his opponent removed none of the difficulties in which the question is involved . He has also given no slight proof of discretion , a quality for which he is not generally remarkable , in not attempting himself to advance any counter-theory upon that inexplicable subject . —P . 577 .

    The work concludes with a verjr brief notice of two or three other heretics of this century , included by Mosheim in his enumeration and mentioned by Tertullian ; and with a short apology for the divisions among Protestants , founded upon the existence of numerous sectaries in ancient times , and in reply to the objection commonly urged against Protestantism by Roman Catholic writers .

    We have thus noticed , at greater length , perhaps , than our limits strictly allow * the principal of the numerous topics discussed by the learned and Right Rev . Author in his very interesting work . We have been so much grajifiedi by the information which this instructive work conveys , so much pleased by the accurate judgment and the candid , liberal spirit manifest in

    almost every page , and so opposite to the rashness , the dogmatism , and the arrogance that too commonly deform the productions of learned dignitaries and theologians , that although we cannot expect always to agree with Irim ia the result of his examination of the writings of the Fathers who preceded Tertullian , we earnestly hope that neither his merited advancement on the Episcopal Bench , nor any other circumstance , will interfere with his design of laying the substance of his former lectures before the public .

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    Art . III . — History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times * or a concise Account of the Means by which the Genuineness and Authenticity of Ancient Historical Works are ascertained ; with an Estimate of the comparative Value of the Evidence usually adduced in support of the Claims of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures . By Isaac Taylor . London . Holdsworth . 1827 . 8 s .

    We have seldom felt more interest than in the perusal of this judicious and highly instructive volurtie . The subject is happily chosen and ingeniously pursued ; the leading object being to lay before general readers , apart frbm controversy , and as if no interests more important than those of literature were impHcated in the result , a general view of the state of the

    arguments on which the genuineness of ancient books , and the authenticity brthe infifrmation they contain , reat ; the whole credit of literature , the certjttrtty * < tf history , and the truth of religion , being all involved hi thef filctt oW which we may foturtd out opinion on the security of the transmission of ancient books to modern times .

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    Review . — -Taylor on the TMmmkaion of Ancient Books . 519

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/47/