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number , and en ^ brace the following- subjects . The necessity of a divine Revelation . The Crea - tion . The Deluge . The destruction of Babel , and the origin of nations . The destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah . The history of Joseph . The nature and destination of Man . The slavery and deliverance of Israel in Egypt . The history of the Israelites in the wilderness ^ and their establishment in Canaan .
The government of the Jews , including the Theocracy and monarchy , to the building of Solomon ' s temple . Tlie captivity of Israel and Judah . The life , death , and resurrection of Jesus Christ .
The character of the writers of the Old and New Testament , The analogy discoverable between the Religion of Nature , and that of the Bible in respect to partial obscurities which belong to both . Each of these discussions branches
out info a number of collateral inquiries , in the course of which considerable information is afforded to the unlearned reader , and popular answers are given to popular objections . As these lectures are written , evidently under the bias of those religious
sentiments commonly calledCalvimstic , it cannot be expected that we should approve of every thing contained in this volume , but the allusions t © doctrinal points are rare , no rancour of spirit is
manifested and "much good may possibly be done by the work , as it may tend to excite a spirit of inquiry amongst a class of Christians who , confining themselves to a few favourite topics , are in general little
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accustomed or inclined to investigations of this nature . Having thus paid a due tribute of applause to the ^<»< kI intentions and
very commendable inanstry manifested in the voltrrne be . ore us , it remains that we perform our duty to the public , by p ^ iritin ^ cui l some detects and errors winch have
met our eye in rtaciin » it . A pood cause may be injured when weak arguments or dubious facts are brought forwards in support of it . This is sometimes though not often the case in the
present w > rk . Some of the testimonies from heathen writers are much too general to build any thinix upon , and had therefore better have been omitted , The
quotation from Virgil s Pollio , so far from affording a proof that it was an imitation of the prophet , is cited by Pope in a note . to bis beautiful poem of the Messiah , with a contrary design , to shew how inferior Virgil is to the
inspired writer , A little farther in- * quiry will convince Mr . C . thai the passage from Joseph us can be nothi ng better than a designed interpolation , and that no serious evidence to the truth of the
earthquake at the time of our Saviour ' s death , can be collected from the clefts of the earth shewn by the monks of the Church of the
Sepulchre , any more than from the pieces of the cross which they sell to the superstitious vulgar . Our author , in drawing a picture of the manners and" morals of the
heathens at the time of the appearance of Christ , is unjust in saving that courage was their only generally allowed virtue ; certainly
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Review—Colli / er ' s Lectures . 60 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/39/
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