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JJqlwisqfi and Co . 1812 v 8 vo . * tf $ ; ' : & : ' i > l i . U 96 * Vol . IK pp . There are twabaeffiods of read .
ing . and interpreting scripture , — the popular aaii the critical ; or , as we may describe them , in rather differentlanguage , the superficial and the-deliberative . The
meaning ofj&e sacred writings is com * monly iu ^ g ? d of by their sound , and by certain earl y associations of i < Jea % | h ^ correctness of , which it Si deemed criminal for the possessor of theni to doubt or even to
investigate . On tfte other hand , reflQCting ^ e ^ corn p are word s with words , phrases with phrases , passages wjtii . passages : they pay diligent attention to the circurastances of the authors , to the
usages . of ihe countries in which tl * f y . Uypd ^ tq their known charactiVRfyio ^ their-professed design ; and , bythe &m ! of this proems , the vo . tyioe of revelation explains itself , for tfc ^ e jnos t part , naturally , easu ly , aVji 4 ^ consistently . The difference between these modes of expounding the scriptures , is much the ^ ame with what obtai ns
beno * 1 b $ ^ offended , if we sometimes dissented from his reasonings and conclusions . we crusted that at least he would not condemn the spirit of oiu * repfiarhts ? and we looked forward to the posaibil&y , if not the probability , of being favoured , in the page * o £ the Monthly Repository ,
"with communications on a few points of scriptural criticism from this amiable , caiidid and learned person . Qur e ^ pec-Utiona are awfully di ^ appoinfted . We ja ourn , in cpupmon with numbers , the '? as ^ af % bvigfrp pi ^ am ^ nt . pf , the { phjris-? 2 S ^ ° L ? # Wt to . supfes this
P «« of , > % Sr& y # . WKlcK perhaps Ml ! JW *« ^ r a ^ jteDfspti {» jconsequcnce of the Wjgffew ^ 4 ^ 5 ii 5 p ? mfpi mtewmtw < & ^^^ Sfefefe J fi ^ fc s ujimitted } o our
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tween a vulgar and a just philosophy in physics . lgrioratli knd careless observers , men who cannot or will not exercise patient thought , pronounce concerning
the solar system from impressions made upon their senses , They reason , ( if indeed they can with any propriety be said to reas ( M y from present and mere appearances . Seeing the sun rise ev ^ ry day in the east and set ' as
regularly in the west , they conclude that it performs a diurnal revolution ia the heavens : and , in like manner , they imagine that the moon , the planets and the stars serve no other purposes than those of adorning
the firmament and relieving , ia some measure ^ the darkness of the night . To gain even tolerably correct conceptions of the grandeur and simplicity of that por * tion of creation to which our
earth belongs , and still mots of the universe , requires the ! improve *" raent of our time and an effort of the mind . With this view , thfc prejudices of the infant and Hhe child , the tales of the nursery , if
not of the parlour , must be forgotten and dismissed ; one phefiov menon must be surveyed in relaw tion to another , and the illusions of sense be rectified by ih ^ , dictates of the judgment . No man , who ventures to account for the
appearances of nature without the help of science , has the slighte&i pretensions to the name of a phi-r losopher ; nor is any one worthy of being listened td in the character of an expositor of the ' -Bffele ,
whether from the pulpit or the press , who interprets it orr princi . pfed cOiitr * fie * ory ft * tbo $ 8 % Kick iv * uav < bf > ei * ; dH % fo- . ^ M ^ days of Locke , ( ana perhaps : j $ e cttftnot find « Hi ^ ery * bKirta rt > Waiter
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Review , ~^ bn $$ on ? & Essays nguage Scripture . 6 p i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/41/
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