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    . ¦"; ¦ - . ¦ ¦ rf > v-V | l"h { rh 'id * 1 ¦'¦ - > / " < ( * ' AinvIL ^ TOe Pfmm of 0 Bt ^ l ^ hPfm ^ exemplified and explained with ObsSrvattonsmn tk&peh&Hm i ^ Points itftfo ffl ^ Evidence By Isaac Taylor . Eortdoh . 1 S 2 & In this , as well as another interesting work which has before come

    under our Review , Mr , Taylor has admirably succeeded in conveying highly important information concerning the evidences of Christianity . We here find much of what a Northern divine styles " the literature of theology , " presented in so conspicuous and attractive a form as bids fair to extend widely among its readers a taste for this valuable kind of knowledge , and that in some directions where too little of it has hitherto been found . We

    rejoice in such intimations of a more general agreement among Christians in what may be called first principles * We perceive in this one of the good effects which Providence designs to promote by the permission of that daring scepticism and that bold assertion which the public mind has witnessed for some years past . The believer , by being put on the defensive , is led to examine the several parts of his fortress , to judge more accurately who are friends and who are foes , and to bind his heart more closely -to the former , however distinguished from himself by a difference of dress , of position , or the mode of warfare .

    We have spoken of this work in connexion with the Evidences of Chris * tiartky , although from the title tt might appear as if this topic had been only incidentally introduced . The truth is , that in Mr . Taylor ' s plan the process of historical proof leads to this point ; and the historical example which fills the first ten chapters must have been suggested with this view . We believe , however , that the author has not teen prejudiced by his Christian convictions , but has shewn the present age , if indeed it needed to be convinced , that a faith in Christianity is in perfect accord with sound judgment , accurate and extensive learning , and philosophical discrimination .

    Our limits will allow only of a very condensed statement of the subjects of his chapters , with which we may blend , we trust , in the spirit of fair criticism , a few strictures on minute particulars . I . The chapter on the " Nature and Utility of the Investigation about to be pursued , " treats the Scriptures as a collection of books which ( among a great variety of others ) have descended from ancient times ; arranges these in three

    divisions—works whose genuineness is indisputable , those which have a doubtful claim to authenticity , * and those which are manifestly spurious ; and determines on the history of Herodotus , and the principal events of the Persian war , as suitable means of illustrating the process of historical proof * II * This chapter is judiciously occupied with a " Brief Account of Herodotus and his History . " III . " The Greek text of Herodotus [ was ] extant before the invention of printing , "— -a proposition which , as . the Aldine copy of this author was printed in 1602 , only sixty years subsequent to that event , we can have no difficulty in crediting . The evidence , however , which this section affords ,

    * Quaere genuineness ? also page 39 . The author is in general accurate in the use of terms , and in other parts of his work discriminates , after Watson and Paley , between genuineness and authenticity . Bishop Marsh uses the latter word in its more popular sense . But the connexion of the passage in Mr . Taylor ' s work * hews that this was not his meaning . .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/29/