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loo Bishop of Exeter s Sermon at St , Paul ' s .
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the utility of classical learning , considered with reference to ethic * and theology , are just and important .
" All undoubtedly , that it is essential For a Christian to learn in the theory and practice of Ethics , is contained in the Sooks of the Old and New Testament : tmt surely the topics of moral science may be enlarged and elucidated by the writings of philosophers in every dime , and of every religion . And as this study was no where pursued to such an extent , or with so much success , as by the sages of Greece and Rome , skill in these languages . will at least discover much elaborate reasoning :, much curious dis »
tinction , much scientific arrangement . Our researches into this important subject will be invited and rewarded by the rich variety of their matter , if not by the infallible truth of their speculations ; by the splendour and beauty of their language , if not by the irresistible cogency of their arguments . Doubtless it were superfluous to prove , that none can apprehend so accurately and completely the contents of the sacred volumes themselves , as those who have stored their minds with habits of critical investigation , derived from an early and intimate acquaintance with profane literature . "
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P . io « - * It were easy to prove that every study by which the powers of the human mind are invigorated and enlarge ed , has a tendency to improve us in the belief and practice of true religion . Whatsoever extends the limits of our knovrledge , whether in the natural or in the moral world , cannot fail to supply additional proofs of the wisdom , power , and goodness of the Deity . The abstruse sciences , by exercising the faculties in the art of reasoning , enable it
( them ) to grasp more firmly the various arguments for the truth of Christianity : and even those studies by which t } ie fancy is warmed , ancl the taste matured , dispose us to estimate more justly , and to feel more exquisitely , the lofty imagery , the appropriate diction , and the wining simplicity of the sacred writers . This , indeed , is the end to which every part of knowledge should be ultimately directed ; nor can we set forth , in a fairer or more striking point of view , the advantages of polite and repondits learning , than by shewing thai : it affords the clearest perception of the excellency as well as' truth , of revealed religion . " P . 18 .
We are pleased to find , in p . 14 . a quotation from ' the ele gant and rational Jortin . "
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Art . VI . —A Sermon preached In the Cathedral Church of St . Paul , London , on Thursday , June 5 , 1806 : being the time oj the Yearly Meeting of the Chilcfren educated in the Charity Schools , in and about the Cities of London and Westminster . By the Right Reverend John , Lord Bishop of Exeter . Published at the Request of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . 4 to . Rivington& . 1806 .
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The cc Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , '' like the 46 Society for the Suppression of Vice " consists wholly of godly persons , well affected to his Majesty King George , and his Government , and to the Church of England as by law established . " No person residing within the bills of mortality can be admitted a member without a recommendalion by " two members at least , "
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certifying that he is of a sober and religious life and conversation ; and of an humble ^ peaceable , and charitable disposition , " iC excepting one of the Royal fa ^ mily , or a Bishop / ' His Royal Highness George ^ Princeof Wales /' is , we are happy to see at ihe head of the members . In a very short sermon , the " Lord Bishop of Exeter , " pleads the cause of cjharity towards poor
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/44/
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