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received opinions are sound or unsound , appear rational , or imply absurdities , are Christian , or only handed down to us from Pagans , and schoolmen , in many respects worse than Pagans . " " Whatever you neglect , forget not ypnar pen sum quotidianum lectionis biblicae , Psa . i . 2 , 3 . Be acquainted well with the originals , and authentic editions of the Old and New Testament . I know not how any Christian
scholar can have peace , or how a minister can be conscientious about his work , that is ignorant of these , or expect success in dependence upon God , when he sinfully neglects this principal mean of all sound and saving knowledge and practice . * " Beware of indiscreet visiting one another at your chambers There are
two kinds of visits : one of civility , which need to be onl y at the time of your gathering ^ and departing from the University ; the other is of familiar friendship and intimacy . In these many exceed in frequency , and thereby much precious time is wasted , and stolen foully from- more necessary work ; and an excess here may be also in their unseasonableness , when in the forenoon , or after six f at night /*—Pp . 133 , &c .
On another important topic he says , " Let there be neither stops nor indecencies of the voice in delivery . Let the voice be whole , equal , and audible . All the foredaid may fall under a suitable pronunciation . That the voice be audible , whole through , and equal , rightly pointed and pathetic . Wfiere these are , affections will break forth generally , love , joy , courage , and a concerning zeal , or zealous seriousness , as being concerned both with the matter spoken , ami for the good of the . "hearers .
" A good memory and judgment , with much reading * , leads a man to accomplishments , satisfying to himself and to the judicious . But the greatest learning and parts are of no account with the vulgar , unless there be a plausible pronunciation and expression suited to their fancy , i . e . prompt , pathetic , &c . " Promptitude , then , in the three principal languages , with * the technologemata [ terms of art ] of philosophy and divinity , brings a person in vogue and some repute for learning among learned men ; but promptitude ia lingua vernacula does this among the vulgar : and , therefore , such as are talkative , et maxime loquaces , are the darlings of the vulgar . " - —Pp . 142 , &c .
Thus far our quotations are designed chiefly for specimens of the matter and the style of this volume of biograph y- The extract ^ that we go on to make , will be shorter , and call for some remarks , in the way of explanation or animadversion * In noticing John , a nephew of Professor Wodrow , the biographer says , that " after a good education , and strict profession for some years , he was so far left 1 of God as to turti to the damnable delusions of the Quakers . ' *
[ P . 9 . ] This is harsh language indeed ; if the epithet here applied to the characteristic tenets of the society of Friends be used in the broad and popular sense . Candour prompts the hope that the writer employs it in the more restricted meaning of " what merits condemnation or censure . " At the period , however , of which Mr . Robert Wodrow treats , and during his own life-time , the Quakers would he particularly obnoxious to
Presby-? So Dr . John Taylor [ Iutrod . to Scrip . Div . ] : "I do solemnly charge you that you do constantly , carefully , impartially , and conscientiously attend to evidence , as it lies in the Holy Scriptures . " f The reader will allow for some variations from this literal direction : however , Ute , and especially nocturnal visits , should always be avoided hy students .
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L % f € ofPmfeuor Wodrout . 405
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/37/
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