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    he never fell into tHe habit of forming his decisions rashly , or , maintaining them dogmatically .

    He learnt , too , froqfy Ileuss , on whom he chiefly attended , to separate that which alone is of practical utility in theological discipline ^ from that which is mere - ly learned speculation .

    Having resided two years and a Lalf at Tubingen , be removed to Halle , where a wider horizon at once opened on his view . Semler , to whom theology in Germany owes more of its present state of

    advancement than to anj £ other inan , was at the head of me university , and tinder him and Nos-• elt our author pursued his th eological studies for the greater part pf Jour years and a half which he spent at Halle . At the enci of

    this time * bv the advice of Semler . this time , by the advice of Semler , ^ ho had long noticed his talents , he renounced his thoughts of taking orders , and determined to quality for the station of a

    profes $ piv With this view , he removed in 1776 to Leipzig , and in prosecution of his design , made it hisfobject , during the first half ^ ear ^ to learn the methods and peculiar characteristics of all the celebrated teachers of the

    unWerilty . The remaining six months of his stay in this city he devoted ( with the exception of those hours tvhich he past under the tuitiofi of Reiske ) chiefly to the study of the ancient sources of

    ecclesiastical history , in which Ernesti " assisted him with the use of his library and the communication of many valuable directions . In 1767 he returned to Halle , and

    continued for a year Jhis stu rdy of the ancient Christian writers , tmitirig with it a minute critical * j& vestigaiion of the New Testae

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    menL ite fbiind time , hoivirdir , to associate with all the litlraty men of the university , especially Semler , and to compose two dissertations , ( the first two in the subjoined list of his works *) the latter of which he defended fSr his

    master ' s degree . In the year l % jS 9 he sefc oxjt upon a series of travels * by which he hoped to accomplish several objects intimately connected with | iis future destination , and * with

    the peculiar bias of his mind towards sacred criticism . First , To make himself acquainted with the constitution a ^| d ctiMojns , with the excellencies and delects , of Ae principal universities of

    Europej and with their most celeb || & | d professors . Secondly , To siBBy ; more closely the Characters of different men , and especially of different religious sects . Thinly , To explore the mantiscripti preserved in different libraries , it *

    order to acquire by the fre ^ ifehft perusal of copies of the Greet Testament , that facility dnd Security in the a'pplication of thi rules of criticism which su ^ fli &

    preparation alone can give—to determine , from personal observa - tion , how far the collations already made triight be depended on : how far the uncollatcd

    manuscripts agreed in character witk ti \ e collated ; bow far the critical apparatus , which was already in his possession , was to be employed ; and whether the theory oi criticism , of which he hati drawn the outline , would be

    sanctioned by experiment , or require to be altered and rnodifiexl . Wetstein had pursmed a siniilar mod ' e ot qualifying himsdf' ibrtlie oVKie of a * riticf and both He attd Griesbach must be gi ^ dtXy ik-

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    % t' Sketc % of the Life of lur . John James Gricsback *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/2/