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Heview *—Horde Ecclesidstica . 60 S
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tual . Judgments and statutes in various passages of the Psalms , particularly , cxix , 7 , 36 , mean the moral law . The principles which our author
espouses , lead him not unfrequently to allude to the doctrine of the depravity of human nature , by which they who are reputed orthodox , mean , that ^ we are by nature averse to nil that is good ,
and prone to every thing evil and wicked . And yet , whatever a man ' s system may be , so difficult it is to conceive of mankind as otherwise than compassionate and tender-hearted , when
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Akt . II . —IToree Ecclesiastics . Practical Essays , in & Series of Reflections ^ on Documents of the United Church * By the Rev . James Harriman Huttoru VoL u 12 mo . pp * 194 . Rivingtons .
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" These Essays lay no claim to iicrvelty of invention , nor are they marked hy the labours of dispute * There is something noble and coinmanding in truth : she needs but little the aid of argument , and looks as if she ought to be believed . I deem it no inglorious occupation to have selected fair and venerable forms of truth /* Prcf . p . 6-
JLtiis rant is continued throughout the whole volumes which Contains Essays , as they are called , cm the Articles of jme Church of England , thedi y jkifc Attributes and Revelation , A . ray of good sense ^ however , now and then breaks through tke author ' s inanity and obscurityj and the tenor of his reflections , as tar as we understand them , is temperate , though orthodox . Heisnevertlull for many pages together , for when he is unintelligible , he is happily ridiculous .
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Mr . Hutton adduces " the talents of Divines and Divines * friends / 5 as a recommendation at least of revealed religion . " Thejr have proved themselves not inadequate to their work . They have yielded neither to physicians in sagacity , nor to lawyers in research . They have always been legitimate scholars of the best habits and education ;
occasionally y they have been arbiters of taste and votaries of general science /' " Hebrew and Greek scholars . Chemists and Mineralogists , As ** tronomers and natural Piiilasp * phers . ' Live in " numbers &nd ^ $ 8 ; song / excel in paintings in music ^ and in mathematics , are of the first value to tiieir country as heads of colleges and schools ; have acquired an insight into nautictil affairs and the Mores Hominum , from their nationally important seiYice * aschaplaijns /" pp . lip , 140 .
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they follow the impulse of nature , and as cruel only when they stifle its voice ^ that this author him * self , speaking of the barbarity which the sons of Jacob shewed
towards their brother , exclaims , " Surely in their bosom nothing human was left undestroyed ; " and again , in p . 257 . , referring to th # chief butler of king Pharoah , hs says , " Nature was not dead with *
m him , and humanity pleaded tot one so young , so kind , and so in * jured as Joseph /* Surely then poor human nature is not quite sq vile as we sometimes hear it represented . B .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/41/
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