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and likely to command attention . ' The question , whether miracles are to bte looked for at the present day , he answers , in one sense , yes ; in another sense , no . The existence of Christian faith in men ' s souls , which is , in his view , a supernatural principle , he regards as * the grand miracle which has existed from the earliest ages until now / All pretensions to external and physical miracles , and especially those of the > Irving- school , are , he contends , sa inconsistent with scripture , as
to deserve no attention . He establishes this point by three arguments ? first , that genuine miracles , in the sense in which the term is commonly understood , have , always been wrought in proof , and with a . view to the establishment of a divine revelation ; secondly , the performance of such miracles in the present day would indicate not an advance , but a retrograde motion on the part of the church ; and thirdly , we have direct apostolical authority for affirming , that what are commonly regarded as miracles were confined ta the first ages of the Christian church .
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Scripture Natural History % or a Descriptive account of the Zoology , Botany , and Mineralogy of the Bible . By Wm , Carpenter . Second Edition . London , 1832 . The multiplication of works of this description , and their publication in a cheap form , afford us great pleasure . They are the best
expositions of Scripture , and help to qualify every man to be his own interpreter . Mr . Carpenter has laboured diligently in this department , and endeavoured to disseminate , both from the press and . in the lecture- ^ room , the multifarious information which he has amassed . We wish the wood-cuts in this volume had been better executed : but still thev the wood-cuts in this volume had been better executed ; but still they
are some help to a distinct notion of the forms of the objects described ; and altogether , to the great majority of the readers of Scripture , there is nothing of the kind which is at once so easily attainable , and so useful and interesting . We therefore recommend it , and hope that the compiler will be encouraged to pursue , or to resume , his exertions to familiarize the public with whatever knowledge tends to illustrate the Bible .
We were not aware , till the Preface informed us , that this was the Wm . Carpenter who was recently imprisoned for interpreting an act of parliament in the way least hostile to public instruction , whereas it should have been interpreted ( and this no doubt is most in conformity with the spirit of its enactment ) in the way most hostile to that object . His speedy liberation , and the remission of the penalties and costs , was one of the most graceful acts of the present ministry , so far as the administration of the laws is concerned . We trust it was an earnest of the abrogation of statutes which would disgrace any country making 1 even the humblest pretensions to be civilized , free , and enlightened .
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The Humanity of the Righteous . A Sermon in aid of the Association for promoting Rational Humanity towards the Animal Creation * , By the Rev . J * E * Good , of Salisbury . Nisbet , Therm is much of kind feeling and sensible remark in this sermon * The subject ought to be more frequently adverted to than it is , for no reform can take place Jm $ b y the co-operation of the teacher and the
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GrUical / Notives ? --Theology , Crilitismr , arid Morality ^ 20 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/63/
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