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iivin e ; dloetsi netf 1 rii mediately f rdrri tke Bifefet anight not improperly have Jfe ^ ei ? prefixed to tbe present work . / Nor is ibis tract the ^ only specimen * of ; Mr * Simpson ' s
eiriinoni fitness for the employment in which we ^ now tind him edgaged . His Essay to evince that Christianity is best conveyed in the historical fosm , and his treatises i on the . exceliLenee and internal
evidences ofthis religion , testify > that he is m theologian of no ordinary distinctk * nt that , while he is large , ly acquainted with books , lie is
iudebted , still more , to his own patient * reflecting , candid , impar . tial mind , that he is diligent in the investigation ^ intrepid , yet unobtrusive * in the avowal of what he
conceives to be the will of God , that he is an accurate thinker and re ? is ; oBeis , ; a . ; peTspiciiaus and often an elegant / writer . These volumes ore the fruits of
Utm ± jjo f care apd deliberation . Ojur account : of > them will be as concise as justice to the author juxlour renters may admit : where wa are . particularly gratified by his skill and judgment , and where wesee cause of differing from him , we shall st ^ p either to ex press our
approbation or to state the reasons of our -dissent ; and , at the con . elusion of the article , we shall subjoin a , few remarks on the classification of texts in general , and o « the mode of classing them adopted by Mr . Simpson .
A short 5 preface announces the d * S ) gn , o £ l / he JEssay 9 , declares that increased 4 * veneration for and « U tach meftttaiherBible" wliich the writw . f ^ els ^ as , effects of th € » se il ^
quiriea ^ a ^ id brings forward some r ^ pect ^ ble opinions and auth &ri - * lJ ^»^ -4 a ^ e «* - <> t a—thorough and unUi ^ sea search into the * irue
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meariing rtf scriplate , together with passages ill the-New Testament itself that are decisive to this purpose . - ¦ ;; ¦¦ ] ¦ ' : •" The first Essay is on the duration of a future state of
punishments and rewards ^ By way of introduction to i * > the author lay& down rules of interpretation , tb 6 justness of which we are neither able nor disposed to controvert : to none of them , we presume , can
a sound scriptural critJC , be he of what communion he may , reasonably demur . This Essay has two general divisions : in the former , those
expressions are considered which relate to the duration of the future punishment of the wicked ; in the latter , those which relate to the duration of the future happiness of the righteous . Agreeably to the arrangement thus made , Mi * . Simpson begins with producing
ten texts , ( Heb * vi . 2 . should per * haps be added , ) which he believes to be all the instances wherein the words . ctjcyv and a , tcvvio $ are applied in the New Testament to the duration of future punishment : aricf , in order to ascertain the exact
meaning of these words , he previously inquires how they are used respecting other subjects in th « New Testament and in the LXX translation of the Old .
Eighteen examples are , accordingly , given of the application of ououv to present tiviey this life or age or world . We shall pause for a moment , to observe that , on an
examination of this set of texts , we find therrf strictly pertinent to the purpose for "whrch they are adduced , and tfiat l ^ tor . Viif ; 13 , « I -will not ® tt W $ » h " , fi # f * Q ? % ^ viL c for ever f * tip 0 ^ t '^ i whM li fe , % < tem * * m ( &tmwfiW&til
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/43/
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