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we be surprised that our hearers / observing how much oar behaviour is at variance . with our exhortations , begin to suspect that we are not ourselves in reality persuaded of the truth of doctrines , to which we allow so slight an influence over our Practice ?"
After some remarks upon the clergy being allowed to provide for their families as well as other people , the Bishop thus proceeds : " Actions , however , which , considered iu themselves , are indifferent , may assume a character of positive good or evil , when
viewed in connexion with the effects produced by them on the minds of others . Whether I shall enforce a particular right , or engage in certain amusements and pursuits , may , as far as regards the nature of the aets themselves , be a matter of indifference . But it ceases to be so , if the world has attached to the
enforcement of that right a notion of harshness and oppression , or has connected with those amusements and pursuits an idea of levity and dissipation . The influence which religion possesses among the members of any community , must in a great measure depend upon the respect and affection with which they regard its teachers . The
Christian minister will pause , therefore , before he does any act which can have even a remote tendency to excite feelings of an opposite description : or which ) by inducing men to doubt the sincerity of his belief in the doctrines which he teaches , may indispose them to the cordial reception of the doctrines themselves .
Knowing that it is his first duty to win all men to the cause of righteousness , he will not be too nice in weighing the reasonableness of the sacrifices either of interest or inclination which they require from him , but will be ready to condescend to their infirmities and prejudices . In
perusing the writings of the New Testament ; no circumstance appears to me more -clearly to evince the divine inspiration of the authors , than their intimate acquaintance with human nature , and the adraU rable adaptation of the rules which they lay down for the conduct of life , to the various relations in which man ; is placed
with respect to his fellow-creatures . Were I required to produce an instance In confirmation of this remark , I would refer to the . caution delivered by St . Paul to the Roman converts for their guidance upon / certain points which the gospel had left indifferent—* Let not your good be evil spoken of . '"
P . S . A sturdy Nonconformist will smite at the gravity with which the good Bishop point * out to his " Dis-
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senting brethren * ' the enernaity of the sin of \ schism , when he recollects that the Church , of which he is both $ prelate and an ornament , is itself a schismatical church .
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- ^^ mmmmm mmmm Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament , by «/ . G . Eichkorny 3 vols * 8 vo . Summary of Contents of Vol . II . pp , 666 .
CHAP . III . Of the Advantages to be obtained from various Quarters towards instituting' a critical Inquiry into thefFritings of the Old Testament . ( Continued from Vol . I . ) § 339—404 , pp . 232 .
Great assistance to be gauwed from an examination of the writings of the ancient Jews and Fathers of the church —also of the Talmud and of the Rabbies—and of the different MSS . extant —as well as of the various printed editions of the Hebrew text .-
—Observations on the works of Philo , Jose * phus , Ephraim Syrus , Origen and Jerome—On the mode of quotation adopted by the Talmud— and t > n the writings of the Rabbies . —Of Hebrew manuscripts . —Of the Thotas of the
synagogues—derivation of the name—' substances on which they were written —style of writing adopted—chief use of tne Thora 6 of the synagogues . —Of manuscripts written in square Chaldsean letters —substances on which
they were written and materials used in writin g them . —Of their external state—division into columns- — -and lines . —Of the character of the consonants . —Little variation in the square letters made use of in the different MSS . —Of
the vowel points—marks and accents — abbreviations — mode adopted in completing the lines—intervals between the lined—and between distinct books and paragraphs—margins—order of the books contained in the MSS . —ornament * of the MSS . —variety of
signatures . —Of the different operators through whose hands a codex necessa * rily passed— -the consonant writer the pointer and accejituator—the revisor—the wetter of the Masora—the critic and 6 ehollast- ~ the retoucher
.----Of the countries from which the different MSS . take their origin . —Age of the M $ S . —their respective valueclfcesiftcatiqn of tltem . —Of the M » < tf the Chiheae Jews—Of M 8 & » Rabbinical characters ,- —Of the H *
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582 Eichhorn ' s Introduction to the Old Testament .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/14/
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