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    testimony of Epiphanus . I wtll vest , the credit of my stventh posim tion upon the mention which

    occurs in St . Jt rome ' s Commentary upon JUaiah . of Hebrews believing m _ CbnNt , as distinct from Nazarent s . " Thus , rhen , w-e are first informed that the six positions not amounting to a proof of the actual existence of this famous Hebrew

    church at iElia , the testimony of Jerome is necessary to complete the proof . But we are now told ** that die testimony of Jerome being alleged bartly and singly to prove that a body of orthodox 'Hebrew fevhevers exist * d in his own time , thtr probability of the fact , that such a body had been settled at J £ f : a from the time of Adrian downwards rests upon the six

    forme r position * - /' . Had any one but that great master ol dialectics , the * Bishop of St . Asaph , made use t > f such reasoning as this , he would have ; been ridiculed f ( ? r arguing in a circle . But , no doubt , had the Ivarned pr < late been living , he could have explained the consist ncy and established the validity at his own logic : a task which uow devolves upon the reverend

    pnbindary . In the mean time , readers who piett nd to nothing more than common understanding , will naturally conclude , that if this giant in controversy may not , # s trn- Quarterly Review asserts , be able to vanquish his mighty antagonist , he is lully competent

    to confute himself ; and that the learned architect of tiie Hebrew orthodox chuieh at jftZlfa , has Completel y demolished the foundatipns of his own favourite edifice . f JL am , $ ir , &c . T : BEL 3 HAM .

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    Mr . Wright on Evangelical Preachings tn tie ply to Jm Hr * June i £ , 1813 . Sir , Your letter in the Repository for April last , ( p . 24 p , ) requires

    to he noticed by me . In the passage you have quoted from my Journal , it was not my intention to bring a charge against any minister , much leas , as you have supposed , one that should be generally applicable ; but simply to state what I understood to be a

    fact . So far from censuring the truly excellent persons , whose names you have mentioned , what I have seen of their works has af » forded me pleasure and : profit , and I highly respect their iuemory . As to the fact I stated , I believe I

    am far from being singular in thinking , that , till lately , " a dry , ethical mpde of preaching" much prevailed . I agree witb you , that it is not necessary ethical or moral preaching should be dry ; but is it not likely to be so , if not asso * ciated with the facts , doctrines

    and motives of the gospel , which give life and force to every moral precept ? I admit that doctrinal preaching may also be dry , ** especially when it is interlarded with metaphysics , " and its practical or moral application is not brought into view . But is it not possible

    so tu unite doctrine and p recept , in public discourses , that the doctrine shall enforce the precept , and the precept exhibit the moral use of the doctrine ; and that these combined bhall inform the judg * mem , warm the heart , and produce the best moral effects ? Are

    there not proofs ol the practicability of tbis in the valuable jabouffl of many worthy ministers !* > f ** b * present day ? You , Sijy iwil * d-

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    58 S Mr . Wright on Evangelical PrcaeJiing , in Reply to J . 2 T .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/28/