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Infidel missionary would have more to obliterate , AnoUier bulwark would be thrown : up to impede his advances ; and thpughnot inapregnabl ^ nor even very formidable ^ it might yet so obstruct hipri , as , $ Q give t ^ e garrison time to rally . And oa the other hai ) d , t ^ ere would ^ pj ^ b ^ t ^ e a jess ready assent given to much of that factitious rqarvejlouspessyrtih t ^
hjchreyelation has been so injuriously encumbered . In t patccedence ^ ptemppre Which one gives to the fictions of ancient romance , how , inuc , ti is ^ the mind disturbed 1 > y their location in well-known places ! We car ^ enj py | hie reqital of many wonders which occurred at a sea-port in Bohemia ; but when Amadis de Gaul sailed to the Island of Windsor , we found his feats exceedingly preposterous . Authenticated as the resurrection of Christ is ; and worthy as that miracle , considered in its avowed design and obvious influences , is of the Almighty Father , we should believe it without hesitation had it happened last year in Wales ; but we think no youth who has
reached the upper form of a tolerable Sunday-school could ever be contented with the common notion of the prevalence of d iabolical possessions , if he had any thing like as distinct a conception of Palestine as he has of the Principality . He would also be likely soon to settle for himself that great and , grave controversy about the Witch of Endor . And the benefit ; would not stop here . Sacred geography and its kindred studies are the best preparation for the just interpretation of Scripture . They form , ar / d cherish
the habit of exercising the intellect upon the Bible . They present a sphere in which none can deny that reason maybe safely and usefully employed . But will reason long endure the being restricted to that sphere wlien once it has been excited to activity ? Is it not too powerful a spirit to b ^ kept within any circle which dogmatists may draw ? After * s c ] early understanding the less important , will it not aspire clearly to understand the more important ; and from dissipating the obscurities of allusions , pass , to the , higher
task of dissipating the obscurities of doctrines ? Let it but come to this ; let but the common sense of mankind be fairly and freely esmployed . upon the Bible , and the times of reformation are more than at hand , they are come . The studies in question not only train the mind fpr , the stressful investigation of scriptural truth , they furnish in many cases , t } je besjt materials and facilities for the discovery of truth and the exposure of error . Many an orthodox dogma , as well as many a sceptical objection , jsjlpu ^ th e perversion of an obscure phrase , the true meaning of which will tbe > at } yjous
to the proficient in these illustrative sciences . Welcome be , they , t ^ eiy as the pioneers of pyre Christianity * , and soon may tljey clear a ^ hjg ^ w ^ a ^ for her triumphant progress through the tangled wilderness of Sectarian cj ^^ s . We Jiave often indulged a dream of a Biblical Mus ^ qni an ^ rlnstitute where all such objects of sense should be collectetj as would tepd n tp . iHus ^ tratethe Scriptures ; a copious library formed of books ^ trea ^ ng ^ irect )^ or incidentally , of the topics in question ; an $ popular lectures { fel \ y # red t ft pp )
time to time , which might have the wide range of / every tl > ing sejeipjf . ural eicebt ( iogmatic theology . WoVld the different , relig ioAjs ; bod ^ e ^ - ^ tiit agrfe , fo ^ tfte ^ s ^ K ^ ^ great common < gQQd , t ^ shel f .. tticpr peculiar preecjs . ib ^ r t ^ < e ve ^ yliniited time and space . whi ; h would be ^ required fort t ^ is , p urpose , an 4 conibine their resources for its acpQmpfel ) pi ^ nt , ho ^ ^ pe ^ i ^ y ; nx ^ ht ; QUr dt&Mbe ^ realised , ' ^ aps , mc ^^ Js . and e ^ gKfcyinep , mi ^ mkk tj ^ e ^ utjines oj ( the ; ] tfolv Land the diversities ofM WTOce » ^ e ph ^ racter qf ^ it ^^ nery , artdihe different arbitrary diyi ^ qns ^ q ^ ^ ubdiyisiop ^ w % h succ ^ ede ^ one anoth ^ frora ^^^ familiar to > tne niincl as the topography of the Goiintry or the county in whtph
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522 Traditions of Palestine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 522, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/18/
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