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feefore intimated , even Mr . Simpson does not appear to us to foe altogether free . There is a wide difference
between erecting an article of faith on minute verbal criticism—a practice which we must strongly discountenance- —and availing ourselves of such criticism , in order
to shew that scrtptural phraseology is not necessarily to be interpreted by the ideas and language of a modern age . To this latter object the author of these Essays , &c . has limited his attention .
Though his own judgment , on the matters in discussion be already formed , he is , nevertheless , candid and usually discriminating . In his method of considering the
topics selected by him , he has followed the examples of Clarke and Sykes on questions of yet greater moment . We shall net indeed affirm that he has traced
the meaning of scripture with all the accuracy and learning of those celebrated divines , or with equal certainty . Still , his labours may guide and assist those of younger theologians , who , ( however , will do well to recollect that even the
rule of interpreting scripture by itself , requires a judicious and cautious application .
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Aht . II , —Strictures on some of the Publications of the Rev . Herbert Mqrsh , D * D . In . tended as a Reply to * his Objections against the British and Foreign Bible Society . By the Rev . Isaac Milner . D . D . F .
XU S . Dean of Carlisle , and Presideiit of Queen ' s College , Cambridge . London : printed for Cadeli arid * Davies , &c * 1813 , 8 voi pp . 4 . 19 *
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" In all accusations , whether public or private , when tthou hast made $ sufficient defence , enter not into needless matters of
ostentation , or such further vindication as is not necessary , " * Had the Dean of Carlisle acted upon this maxim , he would have ap pearedj in tke present controversy
with more advantage , both as a writer and a Yuan . To the object tions of Dr . " Marsh against the British and Foreign Brble Society-, he replies , no doubt , with con . siderable ease and complete
success . This undertaking was neither difficult nor requisite : it was to slay the slain . Learning and ability very inferior to Dr . Isaac Milner ' s , had already obtained a victory over the most formidable
of the i 4 n ( ubiblists . The argument was intelligible to unlettered men , to the plainest and humblest capacities . We might therefore have been spared a volume which consists of live parts , besides an
appendix ; a volume of which much is irrelevant and much personal , in which we meet with numerous instances of tautology and egotism , and which , although it in a } ' display the talents of the
author as a disputant , and serve to uphold his reputation within the precincts of his University , will not , we conceive , obtain any permanent existence among
literary and theological productions . The reasoning of the President of Queen ' s , is far better than his arrangement . But what we chiefly admire in his wotk , is the manner in which he speaks of Protestant Dissenters , and bis inclination to
* Corbet ' s Self-employment in Secret ,, an excellent Marifc » 4 of Devotion au 4 Christian Prudence ,
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Hevieib . ' —Milners Reply to tic Rev . Dr . Marsh . 609
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 609, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/49/
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