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th ^ mpde temper investigation , the spJid learning , the ingenuity , and even the originality , the genuine reverence fojr scripture , which the Essayist has dis »
played , will secure a permanent place for his volumes in every Ideological library , and keep his © ame familiar to the biblical student .
It is pleasing to consider this yenerable Christian employing his closing days upon , the sacred vjplume , for the Essays were his lias 11 , as , in our judgment , they are his best work ; and it is pejCuliarly edifying to find both his biographers attesting that his
veneration of the Bible increased with his examination of it . * The legitimate office of scriptural criticism is to discover truth , and its proper , if not its invariable , effect is devotion .
Mr . Simpson engaged in several controversies on subjects connected , with his studies and profession , as will appear from the catalogue ofjiis writings subjoined to this jn $ moi ^ . " They were all
conducted wjth that temper and mo . iteration which became the gentleman and the Christian , Even Mr . Wakefield , who boasted that i-n controversy u he knew no man a £ ier the flesh" laid down his ** . strong and sharp incision pen ''
\ yhen encountering . Mr Simpson . ^ fter wishing , in the apostolic ji ^ pguage , peace and mercy to all who walk according to such a rule . as . Mr . Simpson had followed , he 4 ecl , ares , without the malignity of fictitious praise and with the truest cordiality , I recommend £ | u 5 sermon to the perusal , of all
J v ¦ - ¦ ' ¦ ? Mr . Hunter ' s S ^ r . j > p , 25 , 2 ? f Mrf Tervis * 8 StTi p i * . > 7 , l 6 i # *
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inter ^ sested our controversy , as a very tcmpirate , sensible and elegant performance ; such a $ might be expected from an author ^ who had before ascertained his competency for the discussion of these subjects by an excellent work , if 1 lightly recollect , on the Historical Conveyance of the Go $ m pejs . ^ f
i 4 In his theological creed , *' Mr . Simpson " was an Unitarian in the largest sense of . the WfQrdL And , agreeably to ihe enlighjen ^ d , conscientious and general consrs . tency of his cliaracrer , his speculative belief inspired him . witjh ih $ most genuine sentiments of a . ja * tional piety and an elevated < le * votion : for he was a most constant , humble , and sincere , vyo . iv . shipper of the One God and Father , in the name of Jesus Christ , his holy and beloved servanf . f "
Mr . Siropson rejoiped cxpee ^ - ingly in the publication of ike Improved V ersion , ^ T a measure so conformable to . the course of his own studies . Both J \ lx . Huiiter § and Mr . Jervisti bear testi - mony to his zeal for truth ; tbe former asserts that <; he sought its success by every means , ^ though the latter declares that there wejre some methods of promoting it which did not accord with his judgment , and these he seems to explain to be controversial and missionary preaching .-ft It is
naf « See Mr . WakefieldY General Reply to the Arguments against . the Enquiry into Pub lie Worship , p . 29 ^* —Mr . Hunter ' s Ser . Note , p . 31 . X Mr . Jervis ' s Ser . p . i 8 « ^ Mr . Hunter ' s Ser . pp . 19 , 20 , § P . 30 . I ) P . 20 . ft The language of Mr . Jervis on these topics requires notice * tic says ,
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of in 84 Brief Memoir of the late Rev . John Simpson *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/12/
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