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¦ ., :. . ••• , - v — - > - > ¦ •¦ - . - --¦ -. . ¦ ?¦ ¦ writing- We frequently wish for resting jblapes i wKeVe Ke Hds not &fford _ < yf ^ $ * n . . This defect isL iii
$ ome J 5 | i ^^ rtre ? . ofeservable ; in his other works ; yet least of all in his Letter to . Bishop Hurd , in which he appears with the utmost advan - tage £ s ; the elegant scholar and the Protestamt divine . Usually he seems to have written from
the fulness &nd comprehfetysicui of jus own mind , without , ^ adverting to the wants and circumstances of tt // -his readers . v ¦ Fa r . the greater part of the sermons in these volumes will notrequire to be distinctly noticed by us . But there ate five . which ,
from the subjects , or the occasion , or the rea , soning , ought to be mpre than barely e ^^ merated , ; lVit ^ ese are on—r ^ . tbie Circati ^ n- —rtkedeluge —the confusion of tongues—the tnan aftei Qod ' s own neart /^ and
— " the resurrection . ? , . Mr . E . supposes that the his * tory of the cre ^ on was i ; eyealed to Adarn ^ and fropp h \ xa ^ anded down , through Noah arid tl ^ e Pja r tiiar ^ rhs , to the Israelites in Egypt . Dy the heavens which God is said
to have created in the beginning , he underbtaqois the air or atmosphere , with . which th , e earth js surrounded . Th& history of the , cipation he qot ^ i ders ? is the histo ry of successive appearances , qu the fiace of
tp ^ globe , in the first s six . of its diurnal revolutions : and , h ^ de )| - vers it ; as bis opinion tliat those five ^ oyin ^ ig &tars which ^ are ^ nlightt up 4 ty (^ $ i ? same s . un t ^ a . t ^ ye a re wej ^^ iejatcd at the same timewith ot ^ r ^ rth . , at
He conceives tb ^ t the ; cjj ^ ge tl ^ c eart h an ^ atmosphere were reduced to the same situation in which Moses describes them to be at the end of the first day ' s crea-
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tion , when the waters' also covered the jearth * ; For tWe confusion of tongues at Babel , and for the consequent difepersion of mankind , he assigns vfey natural and satisfactory reasbns , and looks upon those
events as blessings , not $ & punishl mehts . Nothing is expressly said by him respecting the origin of languages . But he seems to assume , what , w <* think , is ihost probably true , that it was miraculous .
To remove the objections commonly alleged against Davi'd as " the man after God ' s own heart / he endeavours to shew that this monarch' wa ? such , not individu - ally and personally , but as the head , of that family from which the Messiah was to descend . Here
his : criticisms and arguments , ingenious as they are , do not bring conviction to our minds . It appears to us the easiest and fairest explanation dt the phrase , to say
that David , in his regal character , was •"• the man-after God ' s own heart / ' because God chose him to be king of Israel on the death o £ Saul . The names of Abraham
and of Jacob , it is true , fcre sometimes used in ^ Scripture for their posterity . But when Abraham is called the friortd of God , and Jacob the s ' erv&nt of Jehovah , ( appellations which , inform , are of the same class with that
bestowed on David ) , these patriarchs are spoken of in their individual capacities * so that such texts con - firm , rather than oppose , the interpretation which we have no \ v
suggested . As to the declaration rof' Samuel to Sajul , quoted by Mr . E . ( Vol . II . p : 247 \) we should re i ^ l le < ct -that , tn ' ilie language of Scripture , an event is often described as fullillecl at the moment
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Review . —EvansQifs Strmopis . SQT
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/35/
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