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REVIEW. f«,Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame.*' — Popr,
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, | J # — A Course of Lectures , containtag a description and Systematic Arrdngement of the several Branches of Divinity : accompanied with an Ao cotmt both of the principal-Authors , arid of the Progress , which has been made , at different Periods , in
Theological Learning . By Herbert Marsh , D . D . F . R . S . Margaret Professor of Divinity . Part IV . On the Interpretation of Pro p hecy . Cambridge , Printed , Sold there by Deightons , &c . and in London by Rivingtons . 1816 . 8 vo > pp . 86 . fTMIE subject here discussed by the JL Margaret Professor , is so important , curious and difficult , and his
reputation , as a theological scholar , so deservedly high , that we opened this pamphlet with more than common eagerness : an examination of it ' s conteats , will shew in what degree our expectations have been gratified . At the conclusion of the third part of his Lectures , he treated of typical
interpretation , «* with which , " says he , " the interpretation of prophecy is so far connected , as types are prophetic . of their antitypes . ' * In our review of that publication , we hinted pur doubts with respect to the correctness of his definition of a type * and , at the same time , expressed a hope that the matter would " be more largely and satisfactoril y considered in some of" Dr . Marsh ' s
' succeeding Lectures . "f It is resumed , accordingly , in No . XIX . the » econd paragraph of which begins with the following sentences : " To constitute a type , something more » requisite , than * mere resemblance of «*» which is called it ' s antitype . For
we thing may resemble another , when the ™« ng 8 themselves are totally unconnected . ut it is the very essence of a type , to have * necessary connexion ^ th it ' s antitype . jt nm $ t bav * been designed , an 4 designed «™ we be ^ iniungto reli it '
very , p gure s rJ ^ P J or it ; partakes not of that cba-JJ * jfc * whkh belongs to a real type , ; a chattel ^ implies , not an accidental UY k e * lfctei ^ 8 tanee 8 > but a pre-qrdained *** wbtHttt connexion between the things
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them selves . Where this character id wanting , there is wanting that relation of type to antitype , which subsists betweea the things of the Old Testament , and the . things of the New . " ( Pp . 1 , 2 ) .
The Margaret Professor ' s representation of " the very essence of a type /* is perfectly agreeable to certain systems of theology : we are convinced howevet that it receives no countenance from
the Scriptures . If our readers will look into their English Bibles , they will find only a single passage which speaks of types : this is 1 Cor . x . ll . > and even this is nothing more than the marginal reading in the larger copies—the word examples being preferred in the text an $ adopted by Newcome . On examining , too , the places in which the corresponding Greek substantive occurs , we c ' ah . discover no support to the doctrine that a type is a designed resemblance . L ) r . M . indeed says ( ih : ) ,
Ci " the only mode of distinguishingthe cases , where this relation [ of type tqt antitype ] actually exists , from the cases where it is only supposed to exist , is to examine what things in the Old Testament
have been represented by Christ and his apostles as relating to things in the New . For then we have authority for such relation : then we k ? ioiv , that one thing was designed to prefigure the other . "
To this authority we implicitly subscribe : but we shall soon perceive that it does not warrant the conclusion at which the Lecturer arrives . Before he considers ( 3 ) the prophetic
character of a type , he ought to shew indubitably that a type , such as he describes it , has an existence in the volume of Revelation . Here , we think , ) iis reasoning and his illustrations fail :
* ' Whether a future event is indicated by tuovfls , or indicated by otfiei * tokens , the connexion of that event with the words it * one case , or the tokens in the other , will be equally a fulfilling of prophecy . "
True if the connexion be in both instances designed ; which is exactly the point to be proved , instead of being assumed . On this proof the Professor enters in the course of his third paragraph . According to Dr . M ., _ We cannot have a more remark ^ ble ^ or a mas * important example , than that of
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Review. F«,Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame.*' — Popr,
REVIEW . f « , Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . *' — Popr ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/33/
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