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    w mysel ^ rF mean tto , great Author oi JReyelsitiaii , v ? ho , * though he has < k > ubtless done all that it * wks right ; to do for the moral improvement of mankind , may iiot have dope all that our imaginations might have anticipated , f

    or all that our < sensibilities- *; n > ay crave . But , to return to the remark ivhich I chiefly proposed to consider , I would observe , that imagination , taste and moral sentiment , unless they are under the guidance of reason , will rather impede than promote the

    discovery of truth , as in this case taste will be false , imagination delusive , and moral sentiment iocorreee . Ttiste , imagination and moral sentiment , are terms which are grateful to the ear from the pleasing ideas with which

    they are connected , but the things intended by these terms differ in different individuals according tp the countless variety of influences ; and assqciations to which they haverli 0 ei | ^ xp ^ 5 ^ cl | and unless ; Sj 5 r . f- ^^^^ ' ^ out mel ^ d MPt

    a ^ rectifedio th ^ ^^ w ^ W $ ^ W B ^^ ' and abstract truth /^ fey . 1 tS (^'; 1 ^^ - tened to * in inuun ^ ratbte InsfeB ^| s le ^ d to eiror . Pr ; C&anniri gX ^^ oS ^ ing seems to proceed ttporCthe supposition that while the naked intellect

    will pronounce one judgment , taste , imagination and moral sentitoent will pronounce another . Wliich ought to yie ! 4 ' itt the conflict , I cannot for a moment doubt . , But if Dr . Chaining meaiis ( which perhaps life does mean ) ,

    that where true taste , a qorrect imagination , and just moral sentiment , are combined , they will imperceptibly guide the judgment , and save it frbtti the chilling errors into which it might otherwise fall , —i& this case , it is true ,

    no conflict will be experienced , and our inquiries may proceed with a smooth aad uninterrupted current ; but the misfortune is , . that it is

    difficult to say when taste las true , when imagination is correct , and when moral sentiment is just ; and this must be decided by reason , if decided at

    allin-few words , Uftless we mean to open a door for enthusiasm * yve must admit that in the study of revealed trvith , as of all other truth , reason is the sovereign authority to which every thing else must bow . Nor need we w * sli to

    call in any principle whatever to assist the . ** naked intellect" in tlie study of religitius truth , since the vicwkS which

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    the ^ cred yohinte will unfol d to ike understanding alone ^ are of the most sublime and 6 levatiiig charftcteiv an 3 , if cordially received , are abundantly Sufficient to work nptoh the best affections of our" moral nature , and to t € make us wise unft > salvation ? That

    imagination , tasfe and in 6 iral sen 6-ment may be of great use ki illustrating and enforcing thesevieivs ^ lam very ready to grant . Of this , inde ^ Dr . Channing- is himself an eiaStient proof . And I Vish from my h ^ art tKat there were many Unitarian preachJKr $

    like him , save and except in tlfe j ^| - judices whidh he has taken t ^ a ^ i iist the English Unitarifiins , aiid against a naan who , by a rajre combination ^ f intellectual and moral excellence , m ^ justly be regarded as one of the bi ^ litest ornaments of human kind / E . COGAN .

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    T ^ am UHon Ro&nmtitler > iNotes ofclsaidkix . 5 , 6 , with Remarks . 9 i

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    ^^ W ^ t . " J ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦; ' / : ¦ .: ^ - " " 'V- " * 11 *? vwy iiitelH ^ nt . papers of ^ pLX ¦ ^ ¦ f&ar Cpm ^ OEfient atttl my ^ quondam asso ^ ite , Mi ?/ ^ Wallace , tf ^ T - ^ a ^ ' -ix . 5 , 6 ^ [ Vol . XIX . pp . * 21 ^ 94 ^ 223 , ] I have perused with and to

    deep intei ^ st ; am happy observe the particular notice which tliey have drav ^ ii forth from our jiidiciotis Amentfin critic . They have led ine to renew ray investigation into that passage ; iand as one result of my examination , I send for your acceptance

    a translation of the elaborate Scholium , or note on this passage , by the younger Rosenmuller , a name known to most of your readers , and whose cr iticisms will long obtain the candid

    attention of enlightened biblical inquirers . Let me add , that I employ the second edition of this autlior , Leipsic , 1810 , between which and [ thte former edition , I remember , that our learned Theological Professor pronounced that some material variations

    exist , and in none of more essential importance than in the Scholia on the prophet Isaiah . I have not aimed to give a translation in all respects literal , but believe that I have fairly represented the meaning of my author , I

    purpose to subjoin a few remarks suggested to me , both upon the Scholium of Rosenmuller , and the explanation of the same passage , as an argument for the Deity of Christ , in Dr . Pye Smith ' s " Scripture Testimony B . , " M ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/9/