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He states the general argument from prophecy , and the prophecies respecting Christ's first and second coming . The predicted Antichrist he discovers in the
church of Rome , but so far as appears , in no other church in Christendom . Perhaps , as the poet says of death , —like objects pressing on the sight , It had advanced too near him to be seen .
In his sermon on u the style and method of ihe Apocalypse " he professes himself greatly indebted to the Clavis Apocolyptica of the learned Joseph Mede , on whom he passes a just
elogium * . Sir Isaac Newton is quoted in connexion with Mede , and called also an incomparable man , as if his Unitarian heresy had been forgotten . Dr . Clarke too is named with the respect due to an orthodox divine . I > r . Hurd ,
delivered the twelve discourses " to polite and crowded audiences , " and acquired great reputation by the performance . We learn this especially from a passage in Bishop Newton ' s life , written by himself . He says " it was objected that fe \ y lecturers could be found to do credit to the
Institution like the first lecturer , Dr . Hurd . The objection was really so well founded , that after the third in succession , a fourth
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lecturer could not easily be procured , and there was a failure at least for some time t-To display with ability the corruptions of the church of Rome , and to discover nothing but purity in the church of England * was a duteous service , be .
coming a son of that church , ahd which could not fail to be highly applauded . Yet those who enquired after *• the faith once delivered to the saints , " in the writings of apostles and evangelists rather than in the creeds of
churches * by law established /' could not give their unqualified approbation to this work of Dr . Hurd . Among these the Rev . Edward Evanson was distinguish , ed . This respectable scholar and excellent man was then meditat
ing these sacrifices Of valuable clerical preferment and more valuable expectations , which he soon after accomplished . Mr- Evanson entered largely into a consideration of the <*
Introduction to the Prophecies /' and gave his judgment of the work in a pamphlet , published in 1777 ? and which " would have appeared much sooner" had not
the author been harassed by ?* a tedious prosecution . " The pamphlet is entitled ' * A Letter to the Right Rev . the Lord Bishop
? ** $ te was a candid sincere man ; disinterested and unambitious ; of no faction in religion or government , but solely devotea to the love of truth , and to the investigation . of . it ; His learning : was vast , but well chosen and well digested ; and his understanding , in no comnu > n | degrec , strong and capacious . —Cool , deliberate and severe , in forming his judgment * , ha was so far from being obsequious to the fancies of other men , that he was determined only , by the last degree of evidence , to acquiesce in any conclusions of his awn . w In short with no vanity to indulge , £ pr he was superior to this last infirmity oi ingenious men , with no interest in vie * r ,- * iyStk no spleen to gratify , for even neglect and solitude could not engender this unmanly rice in him , with no oblique purposes I say , which so often mislead the p « Bs of other writers , but with the single , unmixed love of truth , he dedicated hl » ere * t talent * to the 9 tf | 4 y of thf prophetic scripture * . ** Introduction , / fee . pp . 337 ^~ 33 * - > v ' t Bishop Newton ' s Life by himself , pr « fl * a 4 Co hi * w * rks . 4 to . I txj .
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Memoir of the late Rick ; HUrd , D . D . Bp . < t fWorcester . $ 27
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/3/
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