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though I confess myself totally in the dark on some points connected with this mysterious subject . " It seems , then , that , in Mr . B . ' s deliberate opinion , Dr . Maltby ' s sermons
will not be consulted with advantage on the subject of the temptation . It must appear singular that the reference was given unaccompanied by any which , in the author's judgment , might be more useful . We can only express our hope that the student will , notwithstanding , consult Dr . Maltby ' s work , and , though we do not adopt the hypothesis there defended , we are sure it must be his own fault if it be without advantage . We know not if Mr * B . has honoured our former article with his
animadversion , when ( App . Matt . iv . 24 ) he expresses his " — surprise that any" ( the emphatic italics which we copy may be supposed to imply—even a Unitarian , ignorant and disposed to blunder as ne might be expected to shew himself ) " should have so far mistaken my meaning in the words which I subjoined to Wetstein ' s annotation on this subject , [ and which I merely introduced in conformity to my plan of inserting all his important annotations , } as to infer my approbation of the hypothesis of Mede ,
Farmer , &c . By calling it an ingenious hypothesis , and engaging to fairly represent it , the very contrary inference might have been formed , and this would have been but the truth ; for I was then of opiniwt , and am now decidedly persuaded , that the hypothesis involves far greater difficulties than it professes to remove , and carries with it consequences the most awkward ; in short , leaves to those who adopt it little resting-place for the sole of their foot . "
He then apologizes for not having yet been able to execute the sketch of the case concerning Demoniacs , and seems to promise a dissertation on the subject . Having done Mr . Bloomfield the full justice of assuring our readers that he entirely disapproves and rejects the opinion of Mede , Farmer , Wetstein , &c , and in these times actually believes in Demoniacal possession in the literal sense , which , however , we are afraid will not raise their estimate of his judgment * we may be allowed to say for ourselves , that we did not represent him as a follower of Mede and Farmer , but complained of something
like inconsistency in his different annotations on the subject , and of the want of that full consideration of it which he promised ; for this last deficiency he now apologizes , and the former is accounted for by his acknowledgment in the passage above quoted , that what is now a decided persuasion , was , when he wrote his former note , only an opinion . He certainly introduced Wetgtein ' s note on § aijMVb £ , o { Ahov <; , by calling it a very important one ; in the subjoined words , he uadertook " fairly to represent" the common .
hypothesis a * well as Mede ' s , and it is not always as implying that it is no more than plausible , that we term an able and argumentative defence of an opinion on a difficult subject ingenious * Without , therefore , any disposition to consider him aa " participating in every opinion introduced by him , untess with a formal disclaimer , " we might well be excused for supposing , that he inclined to a sentiment of which he has given us a very able defence , without any reply , original or selected .
What we have farther to offer respecting Mr . BloomfLeld's work , will be confined to an jexamination oC his notes on a small selection of texts peculiarl y interesting from their bearing on religious controversy ; apd , first , the critical note on Acts xx . 28 , demands our notice . Our author lays before ur an abstract of Kuinoel ' s note , which he follows with his own , remarks . He begins by accusing Wetstein and Griesbach of unfairness .
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Bloomfield ' s Rccensio Synoptica Annotatlonis Sacra . 155
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/3/
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