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twe % . " H&w » Sot i mtewtG * # 4 the world becoipe fecq ^ ftfUed vyith geometry , or w Ub * rj jtHm $ M £ ? S carcely ane ia fifty th < HlS 0 # 4 c ^ be supposed gopabte of in * venting even tfee simplest axioms , or the four first rules , Al » ost
aH > h # w # Y < er , fe&Vg auffrcient £ & «* pacity tQ be convinced of tlieir u ^^ by competen t instructors j and it has sinned go < pd to Pivji > e Provide in : e < , & » wse vp froapa tione \ q time * # ien of *< superior peaetratioji * ' and industry , who have beei > able to make discoveries
cot for their own use # lg * i $ » but for thp benefit oC the wwld * An Arqhiisnedes , aa Euclid , a Newton , ^ it& many others pf inferior ^ te , have wi ^^ 9 La djflfer $ $ t age s , reased
and kav ^ gr ^ d ^ nUy inc the itock of buimm knowledge ; au < l there can , 1 think , be no reasonable doubt , that moral science was carried on towards perfection in the same way .
All this , your correspondent wiil say , confirms bis opinion , that I consider the scriptures as a book of mere human o $ igi { i . ~~ But he tells you , he has * ' to learn
what degree of importance Mr . S « is dis-poeed to attach to them ;* and on % hhs bead i am perfectly tilling 4 e gratify ^ hi ^ curiosity ^ and 16 lay &efose him rayi « oonfession of feitb in the Bible . Let ) him
tie informed then , that I do not believe whb him , that the whole of ibis multifarious collection oi wiatiogs ic re ^ ts pn the same evir
mnce ; " or tbat ' * it is uniformly * ftd minutely true ; ^ or that it te all divinely inspired 5 lor this rear on amoogst others ^ that tWugh I find woeng € * xftfQSs \ yforbidd ia some parts of this collection s j ey ^ ot ^ pftits Of it , XoA ^ i ^ e »< ina « odiotfa pasaioi ^ . in tu « a # ^
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horrid and ; dbgusting forms , re * commended and cncouragtd , by the highest praise * and the warm * est exhortations ; froea wbeace 1 conclude with cerfcajflty , that the whole couid not have been dicta *
ted by tOT wm& spirit . * Nor do I find it asserted in any part of that collection , that " all scri p * tures were written by inspiration of God /* although something like it appears in one passage of | hat incorrect version which is in
common use . Farther I do not be * lieve that these writings are the only sources of moral and religious knowledge , or the only means of saving men from everlasting torments ; because , I cannot consent to libel and defame * be great a ad
good Author of my being , b y maintaining that he leaves a vast majority of manfemd in a state of invincible ignorance of their duty , and then consigns them to eternal damnation for not performing it . Nevertheless , I do believe , that this collection is of inestimable
% > cdue : not only as p reservi ng the most authentic records of the early history of mankind ; but also , as containing credible accounts of supernatural
communications from God to bis erring creatures , and throwing a most splendid light on subjects of thb -highest interest to human befogs , which were before veiled in cotrt
paratwe obscurity . With fhe& views of the Bible , I trust , our friend A . L . B . will allow mfe to prefer it to the ** ^ . rabi ^ n
' < " ti ' Nights / or to * Miss Edge wort ^ Tales , and evea to liecommeod U to my children , without suffering his kind concern for * the
* See I ) cut . xxv . 17 . 18 . la , \ tibffi *?> # » au PsaJra cxxiffi . 8 ] yl
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A / r ^ Sturdy in Reply to A . £ & . on tie . ScrqtfuroM * fWf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 767, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/15/
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