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Excellent , however , as they are , they do not entirely fulfil the profession and promise of the title . The Lecturer is almost profoundly silent concerning •* the principal authors , and the progress , which has been made at different periods , in theological learning . ' * In this omission he cannot have done
justice to his original intentions : and he , assuredly , must have disappointed his hearers and his readers . It should be gratefully acknowledged , that in a former part of the course he presented us with an account of the oest critical editions of the Jewish
and Christian Scriptures , and of the most celebrated commentators . Why then is he so extremely sparing of similar references and statements , when he treats of the evidence of the authenticity and credibility of the New
Testament ? To students in divinity more copious information respecting the writers on miracles , and the contents of their several publications , would have been highly acceptable . Why should this have been withholden ? Dr . Johnson * s definition of a
miracle , is quoted by the Professor , though not indeed with approbation , while Mr . Farmer ' s is altogether overlooked ! Could Bishop Marsh be ignorant of the works of that admirable
author ? It is not likely that he had never met with them at Cambridge ; to the scholars and theologians of Germany ' , though Farmer was no anti-supernaturalist , they are certainly not unknown . This Lecturer ' s own
definition of a miracle cannot be received by us : he erroneously * states it to be something- which cannot be performed without the special interference of God himself . How superior in precision and accuracy is
Farmer ' s language 1 " Effects contrary to the settled constitution and course of things , " he deems miraculous . Our author subsequently adverts to " a learned Prelate , who has deservedly
gained much reputation by his defence of the miracles . " We suppose that he means the late Bishop Douglas . Of that masterly work the Criterion , and of some other writings in proof of the credibility of the New Testament ,
Erroneously , because , according to this view of the subject , the original act of creation was a miracle . See Farmer on Miracles , pp . 2 arid 3 ( 8 vo . ed . ) -
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more might with " propriety and advantage have been said . Nor is the Right Reverend Professor to be accused merely of omissions : in this part of his Lectures there are some redundancies . Perhaps no man is better acquainted than himself with
the difference between scriptural and biblical criticism , between the evidence of the divine origin of Christianity and the principles on which its records should be interpreted . Even a reference to the doctrines of the Church of England , or to those of any other church , ( p . 13 , ) is out of place in this
stage of his undertaking : and it will be time enough for him to affirm ( 16 ) that " the doctrine of the Trinity stands unshaken , " when he has shewn that it forms an article in the instructions communicated by the first preachers of the gospel . It was natural that he should revert to his own
labours on the disputed verse in John , and on a common document . Too many of his pages however are devoted to these subjects : and he is somewhat too eager in self-defence . After all , none of the defects or of
the excrescencies which we perceive in this set of Lectures , can render us insensible to its value , or forbid us to pronounce it admirably calculated for usefulness among theological students of every denomination . N .
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500 Review . —Service dt Ordinatiohof the Rev . % / . % / . Tayler , B . A :
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Art . II . — The Form of Religious Service as it was conducted at the Ordination of the Rev . John James Tayler , B . A ., in the T ? rot extant Dissenting- Chapel , Mosley Street ,
Manchester : including a Charge by the Rev . Charles fVel I beloved . Theological Tutor in Manchester College , York : and a Sermon by the Rev . Joseph Hut ton , B . A ., of Leeds . Printed for Robinson and Ellis , Manchester , and Hurst , Robinson and Co .. London . 8 vo .
pp-88 . 1821 . riMHE absurd and pernicious notion _ A that extraordinary powers are conferred upon the " candidate for Holy Orders , " by the ceremony ot
ordination , is so completely opposed to the general views of Unitarian Christians , that the danger is very remote indeed of their falling into it . There is , however , an objectiou to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/44/
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