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the high adoration paid to Jesus Christ is calculated to shock the feelings of a , pious theist . The flame of devotion , which was evidently kindled in no common degree by the sublime poetry of the German bard , was checked and
counteracted by a reverential fear , lest he was invading the attributes of the One Supreme . The pas - sage is as follows :
y I wa « acquainted ( lays Mr , Cramer ) with an Englishman of the name of Eaton , a young man of an excellent understanding , who had made a sufficient progress in the German language to understand Klopstock ' s poetry , and to be an enthusiastic admirer of him . As he had
been consul at Bassora , and had made many voyages to the Levant , Arabic and Persic were as familiar to him as his mother tongue . He related to me a singular anecdote respecting the effect of the Messiah . He once attempted to
translate to an Arabian priest , as accurately as the great difference between the languages would permit , a passage in a hymn to Christ . He said that it was impossible to describe the attention with which the Arab listened to it .
At length , the blood rose into his face ; he stood up , and exclaimed with vehemence , * Excellent ! but Allah pardon him for having so highly exalted the son . He then begged Mr . Eaton to proceed , and again rose hastily , with a sort of indignant admiration , continually repeating , « Allah , pardon him for having so highly exalted the son / "
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No . L . XXV . Degree of D . D . With relation in general , to this academical distinction , says Dr . Kippis , ( Life of Lardner , ) who had the happy art of throwing into his biographical sketches all the multifarious stores of his know .
ledge and wisdom , it may be observed , that when it is conferred without merit , it cannot give honour ; that when U is bestowed upon merit , it becomes * i proper mark of respect ; and that merit , entitledcan shine by it its own - — - —
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lustre . Though the friends of the late Rev . Hugh Farmer did not procure for him a diploma , his abilities and learning will carry down his name with reputation to posterity . The title of doctor could not have added to the
celebrity of such men as Richard Hooker , John Hales , Joseph Mede and William Chiilingworth , in the church of England ; or of Matthew Poole , John Howe and Richard Baxter , among the dissenters *
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No . LXXVL Edward the Third a Deep Divine . In 1339 , when Edward claimed the crown of France , in right of his mother , he addressed to the pope and cardinals a justification of his pretensions , containing the following pious analogy :
" If , because the mother is not law * fully admitted to the throne , the son must be understood to be lawfully expelled from the throne , then had not the kingdom of the Jews of right belonged to the holy Jesus , which is against the foundation of our faith to assert . Who ,
notwithstanding he was the Son of God , begotten in a mystery , without the com * pany of a man , of a female of the royal stem of David , even of the virgin Mary , ( who herself was not admitted to thip kingdom , nor , perhaps , ought she to
be admitted , ) yet , by the undoubted certainty of faith , became the true and lawful king of the Jews . And God forbid , that this royal succession of king Jesus should be either an untying or breaking of the legal observance ; since he came not to break the law but to fulfil
it . ^ Wherefore , this most excellent in * stance of lawful succession ( by right of the mother ) may reasonably put to silence the pretended reasons of the ene * mies of our right in the said kingdom of France ; that the Saviour of the world and we ( a poor mortal sinner ) whom
parity of reason , as to this , reconciles together , may not be separated , as td our lawful degree and order of succession , by any vain constitution and forced interpretation of human laws . ' * Barnc ' s Edw . lll . p . x % y . rj — - 0
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/33/
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