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    BIBLICAL CRITICISM.

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    were intended by a natural rectitude and benevolence of disp 0 * sition ^ to select from surrounding circumstances , causes of peace , charity , and good-will , whilst others can deduce from

    the same circumstances only motives of hatred , envy , jealousy , and destruction . Wherever the latter disposition appears , there i § no proceeding so open and generous , no transaction so honest , no purpose so virtuous , as not to afford food for its

    malignity . With whatever it comes in contact it appropriates it , by a kind oi chemical affinity , to its own nature , and if it does not find , creates in every thing around it , gall and bitterness . " ( pp . 15 , 16 . ) This is a fine passage , and this zealous Oalvlnist thought it would wonderfully assist him in his attack upon Mr . Roscoe ; but it was infamous to have given it , as he has done , as his own production , and unlucky to have purloined , through ignorance from the very man he was calumniating .

    That this plagiarism may appear still more evident , I will transcribe the passage as it stands in the Evangelical IVtagazine : — " It is wonderfull y ^ though no doubt wisely , ordered that front the same soil and climate from which some plants derive their

    nutritive juices , others collect a poison the most destructive . Thus have Protestants and Catholics respectively acted with relation to the gospel and the truths of Christianity . The former have selected from thence causes of peace , charity , and goodness ; whilst the latter have deduced from the same soured

    only the motives of envy and jealousy , hatred and destruction Wherever the latter disposition appears , there is na proceeding so open and generous , no transaction so upright , no purpose so virtuous , as not to afford food for its malignity . With what * ever it comes in contact ^ it appropriates it , by a kind of che-t

    iriical affinity , to its own nature ; and , if it does not find , it creates in every thing around it , gall and bitterness . ^ Such conduct as this is only worthy of those who are the advocates of intolerance , and who could palliate the murder of Servetus ! J . N . "K ' < - ' - — - ~ —— —r— 1 — — -, . . —— . ¦ ¦ ¦» " ~

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    CRITICISM ON EPtfES . i . 14 . * ' Which is the earnest of our inheritance , &c . " / The uniformity of language requires , in all cases ,, an agreenient between the several parts of speech in the construction of ^ ntences , the want of which would produce universal confi ^

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    310 Criticism on Epkes . i . 14 .

    Biblical Criticism.

    BIBLICAL CRITICISM .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/34/