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    and interpretiou , except by the convenient aid of human creeds ? This gentleman observes , truly enoiigh , ( p . 109 , ) that " many have been endowed with miraculous powers /'

    Can he inform us , in whom besides ' Jesus Christ miraculous powers were perpetually resident ? When he shall have imparted this information , we may allow that he has well expounded Heb . i . 1 , 2 , &c .

    If he argue , in behalf of his favourite theological tenets , from detached words and clauses , he cannot , in justice , complain that his reasonings are opposed by the production of texts , which entirely remove the fancied

    mystery . * Is Christ stated to be the image of God ? So is Adam . f Nay , more : Mankind , the descendants of Adam , are said to be the image and glory of God ; % and this has even been affirmed of individual Man . We

    repeat , too , that there may be resemblance , but can be no identity between the original and the image . " Schlictingius and Taylor" are treated by the select p readier , in his further remarks on Rom . ix . 5 , with

    the affectation of marked contempt . He thus disposes of them : " Of Schlictingius and Taylor I say nothing " . " For his own credit ' s sake , it would have been better , if he had not said even thus much . The learning , diligence and talent of Schlictingius , are

    undoubted : and Bock himself § records with praise his distinguished courtesy and candour . Of Dr . John Taylor , of Norwich , the very estimable descendants , and the numerous admirers , will recollect , that Bishop Edmund Law || and Bishop Watson ^ acknowledged most significantly the superior

    We believe that phrases supposed to express or imply two natures in the Messiah , namely , one pre-existent , the other human , virtually contrast his two states , i » e . his state during his ministry and his present exalted state . See I Cor . xv . 47 ; 1 Thess . iv . 16 , and Origen against Celsius , ( Spencer , ) p . 43 . t Gen , i . 26 .

    I 1 Cor . xi . 7 . § Historia Antitrin . &c , art . Schlict . II " < € An ingenious friend , Dr . laylor . " Considerations , &c . [ 1820 ] , p . yO , note . If Collection of Theological Tracts , Vol . J . lable of Contents , &c , III . 315 , &c .

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    merits of a divine , of whom only they who are ignorant of his writings , or unable to appreciate them , cari speak with superciliousness . But this specific criticism of Schiictingius and Taylor is " conjectural . "

    Conjectural let it be . The conjectures of such men , are worth more than all the lucubrations of a lower tribe of authors . We ourselves do not adopt these emendations of the text of tne Greek Testament . Neither do we despise them : by Griesbach they have been honourably noticed ; although they are disrespectfully , and somewhat

    flippantly , mentioned by Dr . Spry , Whitby is now introduced . To what sect did he belong ? He was a member and a minister of that which is established by law . Yet Whitby , in the later years of his life , adopted the conjecture of Schlictingius . Let us listen to what the select preacher says respecting this well-known fact :

    " when Mr . Belsham lays claim to the support of Whitby , he forgets that it is necessary to shew why the ScvTspat cppovT&sq of this learned man are to be preferred to his deliberate opinion , as given in his Commentary , that work on which his fame is chiefly "built , " ( Pp-112 , 113 . )

    No such forget / ii lness existed la Mr . Belsham : no such necessity was imposed on him . The burden of proof rests , on the contrary , with Dr . Spry , who , it is possible , may have heard something about " second thoughts , " and the value of them , and about sages , both ancient and

    modern , that have endeavoured to grow wiser and more intelligent with added years . Are WJiitby ' s Last Thoughts less than his Commentary , a record of " his deliberate opinion" ?

    Do they bear marks of dotage ? We throw out the challenge , without fear , to the select preacher , whose exclusively are the forgetfulness and the necessity . By the way , he has misnamed the valuable little tract

    inscribed with the title vvTEpoci cppwridE *; . The Ssvrzpai cp > poviri § e <; are Hammond ' s . It is the practice of Mr . Belsham , and it evinces at least his fairness and impartiality , to cite interpretations by widely differing expositors . This method of annotation suits the taste and wants of a numerous class of

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    Review . —Spry ' s Two Sermon * before the University of Oxford . 359

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/33/