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    effect is to excite interest , and induce application . Opposite interpretation ? are / also referred to , the evidence for which is equally accessible to the industrious student , who is surrounded

    by powerful inducements to examine for himself , and to judge of the comparative simplicity , truth and value of different systems . Where no undue influence whatever is exerted upon the mind ; where no motive can

    operate , but a desire to direct the young to the discovery , in order that they may assist in the dissemination of religious truth , it would be the extreme of bigotry to deny the praise which is abundantly merited . * Other cases may be conceived of such a complete

    agreement in theological opinion , as tends greatly to discourage investigation , and to interrupt the successful attainment of a Labit of scriptural research . Besides , some powerful stimulus will often be needed to impel the youthful itoind to a close applicato the materials and sources of

    criticism ; and nothing so much as the suspicion of error , aiid the surprise of novelty , demonstrates the value of the power to examine the one , and to refute the other .

    Your readers will recollect Dr . Priestley *« account of the advantages for the examination of truth , afforded in the academy at Daventry , when he became a student there . And

    however a Quarterly Reviewer may have been pleased to question the efficacy of the means , clearly because they led to results to him obnoxious and unpalatable , we may derive a hint for

    th « promotion of that reformation in England , whicli is probably much indebted , for oi * e of its most efficient instruments , to the peculiarity of cir * ctimfitances which he has himself

    described . If then * upon examination , it should appear , that a similar difference of sen * tinfiueiit , on some points , belongs to our own excellent institution , the discovery appears to me to be a ground of triumph rather than of regret , and to encourage an anticipation of new

    * I tffcfei-, tvith great ] pjeasore , td the spirited iind eloquent Heview of Wainewrigte'fcAt&otfM # f Otehbpidg'e , [ XI . 404 , ] the it&tierotintt tti ** 9 iyeli , relative to the preient Biibject , I am hf »]> py to be abte 1 © < ftfi £ rm .

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    discoveries , by leading to a severe and minute study of the Scriptures * For the information of some of your readers , it may be observed , that of the Essays in Mr . Capped " Critical Remarks , some have been

    commended by other Unitarian writers . Thus , the first , on the Proem to John ' s Gospel , is referred to in Ken rick ' s Exposition ; and frequently quoted by the editors of the Improved Version in loc . To the fourth , on Phil . ii . 6 , Dr . Carpenter ( Unitarianism , p . 184 ) .

    refers for the ground of his own preference . The second , in Vol . II ., on the Temptation of Christ * is considered in the letters of Geron , in a former Volume of the Repository , with whose interpretation , and likewise that of Mr . Dixon of Bolton , Mr . Capped

    in the main agrees . The Essay in Vol . II ., entitled , " Idea of Judaism /' is , I suppose , generally acceptable to Unitarians , and perhaps to others . I suggest , then , to those of your readers who are interested in the djscu&tion ,

    that they peruse the second Essay in Vol . I ,, on the phrase " Kingdom of Christ , ' &c , and transmit to the Repository , for the department either of " Miscellaneous Communication / ' or " Biblical Criticism , " the result of

    their inquiry . I find in the first Volume of the Annual Review , a good outline of all the Pissertations , which might , I think , be suitably inserted , in different portions , into your valuable Miscellanv , With the Reviewer ' s

    introductory paragraph , ( p . 129 , ) I beg leave to conclude the present communication . " The contents of these volumes are highly curious and interesting 5 the result of laborious and patient investigation , begun in early life , and continued , without in *

    terruption , through a long succession of years . Whatever , therefore , the biblical student may think concern * ing these opinions , contrary , in almost every respect , to those wbich Imve been long established , and differing *

    in a great degree , even from such as the boldest inquirers have been hitherto led to adopt , he must commend the principles upon which they have been formed ; arid , if he have any candour mid ingenuounne&v any sincere love ^ of truth , lie Vill deem them deserving of a Mr invfatigatiou . He IBay not be able to embrace all , or

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    Onr the Inquiry concerning iMfr . Capped Opinions * 51 i

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/39/