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Dr. Barret* ami the t)ublin Mdiiuscript.
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peirtsuaded that all this is perfectly consistent with Scripture and reasoti . Surely it is enough to say that in our view of these majtteYs there is inconsistency in this , and that were we , with our opinions and convictions , to act as our Arian brethren do , we
should be guilty of criminal neglect in not worshipping otrr Lord . The same process of reasoning is applicable to what has been catlted " Christian idolatry . " Surely no idblatroiYs rites can be Christian . With equal
propriety we might speak of Christian superstition , Christian falsehood , theft , &c . If by Christian idolatry is meant the idolatry of Christians , the language used is not warranted by the New Testament . Before we thus
denounce and call names , we ought to ascertain our own infallibility , if not as to conduct , at least as to faith . We may be perfectly correct in spying that tire worship of Jesus Christ , or of any other being except the One God and Father of all , would in its be ati act of dating and presumptuous
disobedience to the divine law , and that we should stand self-condemned ; but in no part of the New Testament wtrich I atn acquainted with , is there either a command , a direction , or license to any Christian , to call his brother an idolater : against judging him there are many dissuasives , and some very solemn admonitions .
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Dr . Barret and the jyuhlin Manuscript . 345
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f From u Narrative of a Residence in Ireland daring" the Summer of 1814 and that of 1815 . By Anne PJumptre . " 4 to . 1817 . Pp . 19 , 20 . ]
MONO th 6 greatest curiosities A in the library ( of Trinity College , Dublin ) , is a work executed by
* Miss Plumptre , who has so freely drawn the character of this gentleman , yet living * , seems not to have been aware of his rartk in the University . He is described in the Bibg-raphical Dictionary of Living Authors , as D . D . Vice Provost and Senior FellbW of Trin . Col . and iWfessar 6 f Oriental Lang-uaires . The
following" m > rks are ascribed to hitti : A ' n Inquiry into the Origin of the Constellations that compose the Zodiac , and the Uses ^ hey were intended to promote . * . 8 vo . 1800 . —Essay on the Earlier Part of the Life of Swift . 8 vo . 1808 .
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Dr . Barret , one of the Fellows of the College , a very remarkable character , in whom a passion for books and learning even rises above another very prevailing feature , the love of motiey * In looking" over the manuscripts , he discovered one which , upon a close inspection , he perceived to be written over another of much older
date , the former writing having been effaced , though not so effectually but that faint traces of it were discernible . He immediately applied himself to making out as much of the original manuscript as could be deciphered , and succeeded so far as to ascertain
it to be a Greek manuscript of St . Matthew ' s Gospel , tie has since , had the text printed as far as sufficient remains of the characters can be traced to admit of it , for some are
wholly effaced , supplying the blanks with points . In front of the page , it is printed in a fac-simile of the original characters , and on the back , in those of the modern Greek . The .
whole has been a work of immense labour ; but from the peculiar turn of the Doctor ' s mind , has afforded him no less gratification than toil . This gentleman never stirs beyond the college walls , excepting twice in the year to the Bank , which is close
by , to receive his half-yearly dividends , an office which he would not on any consideration depute to another ; and on an annual visit with the board to the college observatory at Dunsink , four miles from Dublin . The consequence of this secluded life
is excessive simplicity of manners and utter ignorance of the world , lie has been forty years' Fellow , and for many years his fellowship has produced an income of £ 2000 a year , of which he , perhaps , scarcely spend * twenty pounds , excepting in books :
of these he buys a great number , and often very expensive ones . At the same time , his pciiuriousness in othqy respects is such , that were not hj $ dinner provided free of expense b y the College , he would run somf hazard of being starved . Hismemory
is astonishing : not long since , ia answer to some question which wa $ asked him , he not only ran over a list of all the gentlemen who had been provosts and vice-provosts of tfie college since its foundation , but gave every circumstance attending
Dr. Barret* Ami The T)Ublin Mdiiuscript.
Dr . Barret * ami the t ) ublin Mdiiuscript .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/25/
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