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tvery branch of sound and polite learning , that they may enter the world qualified not only to discharge with ability their ministerial duties , but in many cases to be the instructors of our youth , and to support by their acquirements and character the respectability of the dissenting name . With such views the p lan of study pursued in this institution has been arranged . It comprehends a term of five years ; during the first three of which the student proceeds through a full course of mathematics arid natural
p hilosophy , is daily employed in reading some of the best classical authors , and is directed and assisted in an extensive inrestigation of ancient and modern history . In the course © f this period , he is likewise instructed in logic , and the philosophy of the human mind ; m ethics , including jurisprudence and general
policy ; in the evidences of natural and revealed religion ; in universal grammar , oratory and criticism , and other branches of what are usually called , the Belles Lettres . And as the foundation of just scripture criticism , must be laid in an
acquaintance with some , at least , of the oriental languages , the student , in this part of the course , is taught the Hebrew , the Chaldee , and the Syriac . Thus prepared , he enters on his theological studies , to which the last two years of his course are devoted . After some
introductory instru ction concerning the general principles of sacred criticism , and ^ the aids to which a theological student should have recourse , he proceeds in regular order through every book of the old and
new testament , paying at the same time particular attention to the language of ihe Septuagint , and the writings of Josephus and Philo . Having thus traced the history of revealed religion , and from the records of revelation alone
endeavoured to learn the doctrines proposed in them , to the acceptance of mankind , he passes to the history of the Christian church , having his attention particularly directed to Lhe rise , progress and character of the p incijpal religious systems which have prevailed in the Christian world ; to the origia of onr separation from the established church , and to the
grounds upon which a continued separation is vindicated . He is also now introduced to some general acquaintance with those writings and opinion s
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which , by nations not owning fhechristian name , are considered as sacred . — Through the whole of the course he is exercised in Latin and English composition on the subjects connected with the studies he is at the time pursuing , and In the last two years in the composition of sermons and other puJpit exercises , and receives instructions in the pastoral
care . Such is an imperfect outline of the plan which has liitherto heen kept in view , and pursued with as much regularity as circumstances would permit . And although the excellent maxim of Dr . Jebb , that " the personal labours of the student are of greater efficacy than
the oral instructions of the tutor , " is constantly acted upon ; yet it must be evident , that so many important and necessary subjects of education must require the aid of another tutor , in order to their being properly conducted ; and that no great increase of students can be expected till this aid shall be obtained .
The preceding plan has been arranged principally , but not solely , with a view to the education of divinity-students . The course , however , for the first three years , is adapted also to the education of young men designed far other professions ^ or for mercantile life . And as the lee >
tures delivered in the third Year are upon subjects concerning which it is very desirable that lay-students should be well-informed , in this age of scepticism and infidelity , it is much to be wished that parents would allow their sons to continue till that part of the course it
completed . They might thus be the more surely confirmed in that good character which is essential to their being admitted into the Institution , and which it is the object of all the regulationsest&blished there to guard and improve .
There arc at present sev " en divinity students : the number of lay-students is five . The treasurer of the institution is Ottiwcll Wood , Esq . of Manchester , to whom , or to th « }\' e , v . C . Wellbeloved , Theological Tutor , York , the Rev . Wjlliam Wood , Visitor , L > eeds Lewis Llojd , ¦ Esq . JLothbury , or Tvir . Kinder , No . I , Cheap side , letters m 4 y be addressed respecting the admission" of students ; or far the transmi s sion of donation * or »* ibscriptiens .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/45/
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