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fereet coujitries , and finally in all its grace and beauty , as it is fitted to invest truth in its richest and most attractive dress .
But it was the light , which philology pours on the records of our faith and hope , which gave it its chief value to the mind of Mr , Buckminster . It was the study
of the scriptures in their original languages , which most powerfully seized and occupied his attention , and engaged him in a course of inquiries , which he never thought himself at liberty long to desert . His attainments in this department of knowledge would not have been thought lightly of , when compared with those of European critics . He
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Dr . John Jebb . ( From Dyer ' s History of the University , and Colleges of Cambridge , % Vols . 8 vo . Vol . 1 . p . 124—126 . )
Dr . John Jebb was of Peter House , of which Society he was confirmed fellow in 1761- He was considered as a dissentient in the University . His reputation stood
high as a scholar , and what particularly alarmed the University was , his undertaking to give lectures in the University on the Greek Testament * at his own house
* n Cambridge . Iu these he broached doctrines repugnant to the 39 articles ; and a general order was issued , forbidding any to attend "is lectures in statu pupillari .
Without detailing the particulars of Dr . Jebb ' s opinions , I can nIy remark , generally 5 they were Unitarian , the prominent point
being , that Christ was a mere man , with the doctrine of philosophical necessity . But his name stands connected more immediately with a plan for public annual examinations , of all undergraduates
in statu pupillan , not excepting fellow-commoners and noblemen . The subject greatly agitated this literary body for two years : for Jebb ' s politics and theology were supposed to be connected with it . His Resolutions were received
in the Senate House , andsetaside by a small majority , though supported by some of the most learned members of the University , and countenanced by the Chancellor . In the ensuing October Dr .
Jebb published another plan , which met with a similar fate , rejected by a small majority in numbers , though supported by %
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was always of opinion , that the principles of Christianity , in their original purity and simplicity ,
were to be preserved where they are already held , and re-called where they are lost or obscured , only by the study of the Bible , according to the maxims of a sound , and cautious , and enlightened criticism . One of his strongest passions was , the desire to diffuse a love of biblical studies ; and the impulse which , has been lately given in Boston and its neighbourhood to inquiries on these subjects , is , in no slight degree , to be attributed to his exertions and example .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/7/
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