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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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of its several species * The maxim of the text , " Turn not uato the right hand nor to the left , " is an excellent rule for keeping in the right way when it has once been found , but affords no instruction how to find it . We look in vain for any thing like a clear and definite rule , founded on a well-established principle . Mr . Conybeare is laudably anxious to check the abuse of this mode of interpretation , but every thing is in fact referred to the
commentator ' s own discretion , and it would be very difficult to say why he Wmself receives Joshua as a type of Jesus , and yet hesitates to consider the downfal of the walls of Jericho as a type of the pulling down of the strongholds of sin by the gospel ; or why he should see a striking adumbration of the great ransom in the cities of refuge and the offender ' s liberation by the death of the high-priest , yet doubt whether the harp of David , expelling the evil spirit of Saul , prefigured our Lord commanding the evil spirits to go out
of the man whom they tormented . ( Pp . 308 , 314 ) . On the subject of the deflexion and accommodation of prophecy he writes with equal indecision * not venturing wholly to deny its existence , yet laying down uo rule by which to ascertain what is or is not accommodated or deflected . This deficiency is not to be imputed as a fault to Mr . Conybeare , who could not find an intelligible criterion where none existed , which , in regard to types , we have
already endeavoured to shew , The general tendency of his remarks , how-p ever , is certainly to discourage the spirit of mysticism , and they may thus prove a useful warning to those who would have rejected similar advice from one who abandoned typical interpretation altogether . His history of thi $ practice in the Jewish and Christian church is learned , candid , and instructive , and shews him to have been a man whose pious feelings and amiable dispositions deserved the eulogies and the regret of his surviving friends .
We have given no extracts from that part of Mr . Chevallier ' s Lectures in which he unfolds the types of the Old Testament . Those who delight in this species of theology will be edified by the minute detail of resemblances into which he enters . We have already , however , observed how completely destitute of Scriptural authority these details are , and the matter , which is to be found in other treatises of a similar kind , is not recommended by any particular ingenuity or . eloquence in the manner in which it is treated .
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Art . III . —The Case between the 'Church and the Dissenters fowpm * - tiallti antfpraotwatty considered . By the Kev . Francis Merewetfher , M . A ., RectoT of Cole Orton , Vicar of Whftwick , &c , &c . ftinn £ ton , London , pp . 166 . There are some boosts tbat claim a
passing notice amongst the publications of the day , not bo much from any intrin-< sic merit or interest , as froju the indication which * hey fiunigji of the state of Qpinkm and feeling in certain classes of the coiuimmHy . if the work of Mr , iMere-wetber be entitled to aiw attention ,
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it must be on this ground ; though we much question whether his own party would be very willing to acknowledge it as a fair specimen of the learning and ability to which the church iwiat look for her defence in these days of lukewarmnees and heterodoxy ; for a feebler show of reasoning , conveyed in a worse style ,, it has rarely fallen to our lot to
encounter . The design of the book must , however , be admitted to be charitable , and reminds us of tlioae schemes of comprehension , which a century ago were subjects of such eager diftcussio . n between the Church aud the Dissenters ; as it is weir
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/47/
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