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    Let me hear you . Or is it hieroglyp hic and allegory—one thing said , another meant—as the writer was learned in all the learning of the Egyptians ? And if so , lend me your key . [ The second question relates to the sun standing still in the days of Joshua . Both the question and Mr . Turner ' s answer are inserted in the Theological Repository , Vol . I . pp . 103 , &c . l

    3 dly . Who is Baal-zebub , the God of Ekron ? 2 Kings i . 2 . What is the meaning of the name ; and why do the Evangelists give this name to Satan ? Why should one Devil go by the name of an idol-God- —a real being be equipt with the title of an imaginary being—a nothing ? Does it not look a little as if there was no such real being ; and Satan mean no more than the adversary r » whether it be passions , persecutions , or the inimicus homo in various forms 1 A . j i . jB Mt . Jk . Jk . jlL JlL Jk .

    5 thly . " Thy navel is like a round goblet / ' &c . Cant . vii . 2 . Can this be , as the Church affirms , the Holy Ghost ' s description of a baptism and Lord ' s Supper , that were to be many ages after ? Stuff . What does Mr . Turner think ? I remain , Sir , your assured humble servant , T . A .

    Wednesday Morning ; Sept . 21 , 68 . P . S . I must not forget to ask you , in relation to my five questions , if you think I am right in adhering to the following proposition in every inquiry I make relative to revelation :

    A Proposition . By taking an objection out of the hands of infidelity , we do an honour to the truth of God , by rendering it plain , rational and intelligible . The more rational and intelligible every text of Scripture is explained to be , it must carry with it so much the more stamp of divine authority : for what seems contradiction and nonsense can never come from Supreme Reason , from Divine Wisdom and Goodness : nor can the unintelligible have any more relation to rationals than laughter has to iron .

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    No . II . I thank you , good Sir , for the anecdotes you give me concerning Morgan , Collins ana Bolingbroke . From reading Shaftesbury ' s preface to the volume of Whichcote ' s Sermons which he published , and also his Letter to a Student , I am led to think that he wrote the passages in the Characteristics which seem to bear hard upon Christianity , with like views as those to which you ascribe Collins ' s pieces , the Scheme and the Grounds ; and also to engage Christians to examine their several religious systems more carefully , and clear

    away the rubbish with which they had encumbered them : and , particularly , to make them ashamed of the artifices , by which the priests of all communions had metamorphosed the simple and pure religion of Jesus into an ecclesiastical polity , a kingdom of this world . Shaftesburv certainly had just and noble sentiments of the Christian institution , and highly reverenced it , on which account he had no patience with whatever he thought disgraced it . But while he employed the incision-knife of wit very freel y on the wens and warts , the keen edge sometimes cut deeper than , perhaps , himself could have wished in the cool hour of sober reflection . But who could have the heart to stifle the bright offspring of genius ? A parent ' s heart must needs feel strong

    reluctance against such a parricide . A fine combination of ideas may surely be pardoned for a little perverseness and mischief . But I am waiting with impatience for the appearance of the honest John Buncle , Esqr . ' s Notes on Man , &c , from whence I expect much entertainment and instruction . Pardon me , Sir , if I say that I am really humbled , when you do me the too great honour of proposing Scripture difficulties for my solution , conscious , as

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    Correspondence between T . Amory , Esq . y and Rev * W . Turner . 89

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/9/