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    ( pp * l 6 & 9 1 * 6 4 ) ^ a letterfroro Dr . Law , $ he Jate -Bishop-of Carlisle , lo Mr . Lindsey , in acknowledgpn ^ njta f . ihe receipt of this volume , tii which he desires Mr . L . to

    accept Jo iieturn anew Cumberland edition of his 4 C Theory purged of some Antient Prejudices rtlative to Pre-existence , SrcJ * Mri Lindsey took an active part in the institution and the proceed , ings of a Society , which is know . n £ o the theological world , by its two volumes of Contributions to

    JJibiical Criticism : the account of this useful association we shall give in the , words of Mr * Belsham : ** In September 1783 , a society was instituted * for promoting the Juiowledge erf the scriptures . ' The meetings were

    held at Essex-house . Among the origi' naF menibers of the society were Mr . lAn&seyS T >^» D isn ey , who accepted the pfficeJofU ^ creta y , I ) r . Jebb , Dr . £ ippis , J > r Pri ^ e , J > r . QaLder , Mr . Dod-on , Mr . Lee , etc . in London ; arid in the ttrantry , IVfr . Tayleur of Shrewsbury , who generously remitted 100 / . to the

    W&iety for immediate use , and entered j ^ rnself as a subscriber of five guineas annually -, Mr . Shore and Mr , Newton 'iff ' Nifttbn , Mr . Turner , Dr . Priestley , Hfr \ Toulmin ^ Dr . Law , bishop of Car-Use , and C ( th < ers , in all about thirty or forty members . The society limited its

    object to the illustration of the scriptures , and declined all tracts which focrc wholly controversial , ar which irrere fprra ^ 4 e ^ nces or confutations of specific , doctrines . . fr very , able sketch offhe S 9 ci ^ tv ^ s plan was drawn up by Drl ^ ebb , in which he states and

    illustrates what he calls the analytic plan of unjt ; erpr £ ta * ion Wr ^ ioh tl >

    ^ onn ^ eciipri , ^ fc These being settled , mcf judic ^ iis | c | terprcter i » to ^ proceed , . , wy ' sfctuiAi ^ the text ; by a cb irhjPari ' soh ' of '^ artp ^ t&dtngs % by accurate tranafla . ¦^ IW ; ^ T ^ i ^ on ^ W tiOlijctWipti , fy a 4 « 6 h k * # t W jV 4 ig

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    conclusions . This , which is unquesr tionably a most excellent plan of anterpretation , was laid down as a general rule , i /< rithout meaning to require from their correspondents a rigid conformity to it , or to any other specific model ; bu , t to admit any communication which , tended to the advancement of scriptural knowledge .

    «* Tlii « society did not flourish in the degree nor to the e > . ten' oft he desire ^ and expectations of iis learned and benevolent rounders . Its membtrs were never numerous , and they were very sparing in their contributio n s : the plan , was too circumscribed , and interfered too much with the larger , the id ore

    comprehensive , and more useful plan of the Theological Repository , at that time resumed by Dr . Priestley t and after languishing a few years , it was altogether givGn up . Not , however , without bequeathing- a valuable legacy to the theological student , consisting of two volumes of Commentaries and Essays . Among these are a curious dissertation

    of Mr . Lindsey s upon John x , iv . 1—3 5 and a gie ning of remarks on Mr * 'Iravis s attempt to revive the exploded text of i . John v . 7 . A translation and noies , by Mr . Dodson , on the twelve first chapters of Isaiah , and likewise upon the titty- econd and tifty chird ch-pters , which were all afterwards rt published by that learned writer in a complete translation of ihe whole book , with

    notes . Another communication was added by Mr . Dodson in the second volume , in the form of a letter to Mr . Evanson , in defence of his hypothesis concerning the spuriousness of the gospels of Matthew , Mark , and John » Also - two inestimable dissertations of the Rev Robert Tyrwhitt , one upon the

    * Creation of all things by Jesus Christ / and the other upon the 4 Resurrection of the Dead through the Man Jesu « Christ . The bulk , of the second volume is made up of remarks , many of them , very ingenious , upon select passages in the Old Testament , by the late Rev . Henry More , 01 ' L . i : skiard in Cornwall , "

    The l&te tylr . Robinson ' s well known tffi Plea for the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ , * ' in which the argurnenis of Mr . Lindsey * s former publications are at . tacked , p ) ade its appearance in 17 ? 6 } aud , con ^ de ^ in ^ j ; thus ca ^ o-

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    RmieW '—BcUfiani's Memoirs of Lindse ^ 631

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/43/