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€i Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blamed—Pofit, • • •. ¦ .. x
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Art . l . —A &ti&r&e of Lectures , containing' a inscription and Systematic AftixHgeihftot of the Several Branches &f Divinity : accompanied with an Account both of the Principal Authors } dnd of the Progress which has been made at different Periods ifi Theological Learning . By Herbert Marsh , D . D . F . R . S .
and P . A . S , Lord Bishop of Peterborough , and . Margaret Professor of Divinity . Part V . On the Authenticity , of the New Testament . Cambridge , printed . Sold there b y , Deightons , and in London by Rvvingtons . 1820 . 8 vo . pp . 94 . \ TE 7 T 3 are happy that this Prelate V ? comes again before the public
in the character of Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge . Although the subject of the Fifth Part of ms Lectures may be considered as not admitting any great novelty of information and remark , we cannot but be gratified by his luminous arrangement of his thoughts , by the perspicuity and
vigour of his style , and by several traces of & powerful and discriminating mind . To those who are beginning , and to them who feel a desire of reviewing their theological studies , his labours will be highly useful . " The authenticity and credibility of the Bible " form the third of the seven
branches of the system of divinity adopted ia his Lectures . " And it is hardly possible , " he says , " that these important questions should be examined at a period , more seasonable than the present , when every effort has been made to shake the fabric of
Christianity to its very basis . " Previously to his entrance on the proof of the authenticity of the writings of the New Testament , he deems it t € necessary to give a definition of the term authentic . " This word he uses €€ in
the confined sense in which many English and most foreign writers use * i " ** P roBK > unqes a book authentic twt wa » composed iC by the author to whom it is ascribed . ' It will naturally oe asked , whether Bishop Marsh has good reasons fo * . thus departing from He language of some preceding advo
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cates for revdttim ^ On t | te one hand , the correct ^ iiiplbyiiitent ! &M application of teriiis ire essential to tfie success of otir- researches Sf&fr truth , and of our diffusion of it : oil the other , no changes should fiere b £ introduced which ate not maiiifestjy H improvements . A late excelteht JPrelate * stated
" the difference between the genuine ness and the authenticity of a bck > fc as follows : " a genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears , as the author of it ; an authentic book is that which relates
matters of fact , as they really happened . " This distinctioii , we betievfe , approves itself to many of his readers . So far as it extends , we find it convenient and intelligible ; yet the second part of it is limited to historical , and does not comprehend epistolary and several other writings . Authenticity in the sense in which Dr . Watson
defined it , cannot be predicated of epistles , unless they xteord matters of fact , and record them with correctness . Now the Margaret Professor ' s definition of this term includes , on the contrary , those books of every dlass that were written by the persons whose names they respectively bear , as the authors of them . To this definition ,
therefore , we give the preference : its accuracy will perhaps be confirmed by the citation of a passage from an early Christian writer . Tertullian'f speaks of the " authentic letters' * of the apostles . It has been a difficult task to ascertain what
he means by this expression : J evi-• Apology for the Bible , hy R . Watson , D . D ., &c-, Bishop of Landaff , ( 3 rd ed ., ) p . 33 , and Dr . Makby ' s Illustrations , Sic . ( 1802 , ) pp . 1 , 2 . ' f * De Praescrip . cap . xxxvi .
t See Lardner ' s remarks ( Works II . 266 , &c . ) on the passage , Tfae note of Semlcr ^ rrertull . Opera , Tona . li . pp . 45 , 46 , ) is , " non originalia et autographs , lit tnalti falso intelligebant ; sed Grarcaf , quia isti alii L * tin& translxtknie utebantar , sicut ipse TertulliattUs . " "She inter | i retirtioii which thl ^ Editor denounces of thfc worils atsthtnticm Ht # r < x , has ken
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€I Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blamed—Pofit, • • •. ¦ .. X
€ i Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blamed—Pofit , • • . ¦ .. x
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1820, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2491/page/29/
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