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    4 tfW 5 « JyTm ^ M flW ^ Ommtimnqf . HM > Grace the I * qM ... JfacMitfwpofiY&rk , held at Bishops * tharpe , July % 1826 . By the Her . Waliam llett , M , A . London . Bivingtons , 18 ^ 7 . 4 to . Pp . W .

    ' In several views this sermon is far more deserving of notice and approbation than the majority of discourses grescfeed aa 4 priced on similar orca * fijonsu Thfi e&i $ acta that we . shall m . aJke from it will be on the respective topics of clerical learning , German theolygy , Bibfe Societies , and the Roman Church .

    « Nothing , " says Mr . Hett ., ( p . 16 , ) V confers jnore 4 * £ Hity o , n the character of a clergyman , or is better calculated , to support its respectability , than the influence derived from the cultivation of theological learning . Allowing such stated portions of time for visiting his parishioners , as their spiritual necessities may require , he will still have

    abundance of leisure for attending to the calls of sacred literature . He must not fall iuto the vulgar error , ( au error which , I am pained to say , receives countenance in these times from men of whom we might have hoped better things , ) of yndervaluing the aid of human learning in the study o ^ revealed trntb , I cannot

    help thinking that it is owing to this mistake , which leads men of moderate attainments to substitute what they call piety for knowledge / that the clergy of the present , day , in what respects solid learning , have visibly declined * when compared with their bretju ^ n pf an earlier period /'

    'Soou afterwards , he observes , ( pp . \ 7 > m "A respectable proficiency in the HeWew tongue is au wdispeQt-able re * quisite in the character ¦ , of ft ## ) $ ; 9 fl attainment w , ^ h , de ^ i a ^ % appU < $ tw . M , ratjier thau aeyere mental exer ( ji <>^ . Jt i& ^ e ^ ble to the ageiin wh } cfc weiiW .

    W ? , -M ^ ws , w m ^ p MwAw ** - iw 4 wJ ^ s : % ^^ rf »* -. « . ^« a ^ ii , fwi [ VT Wjfflfe ] h % i fl ^ iMfftaS i * e ^ 9 fS&& Jtt W ^ W ^ n ^ , % , stmrn w ^ j < jh « feif * upont the EMi $ jiiv ^ es WWyMteufiflp- ' - * Wffltofi ac Wftta ^ ce . ^ jjth Hepr ^ w a ^ 4 Itabbiincat U ^ eiv atyrei yfWl fee removed , an 4 when t-he theologians iu these realms will be found

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    fonb , respect Inferior to their Di ^ threii it ) G $ xmpM . * ' ¦ ' . - ' ¦¦ - " ¦ ' ; * $$ ) ! & ' . fa oijr eoixliaj wish ; a wlsli thac we would gladly convert into a « ? hope /' At pv ^ seot , our appreh « n , 9 km ^ ni « vail over oujp e ^ pectatioo ^ We fear » o ^ oijl j tha , f t ) fete gi ^' tiodyqf the English clergy are altogether unacquainted with " Hebrew

    li | erat « re , ^ but that the same disgraceful igubrance will continue , so long as ' * the sludy of thfe auqlent lai ^ guage * ' is not made a ^ essential part pi the amfemic ^ education of candidates for the Christian roipistry , and " a l-ejpeetabie proijeiency' * in it " an indispensable requi $ ite for admission into holy orders . and

    With Mr . Jiett we ^ perceive la « meat ^ lat " theological learning" is much neglected b y the existing race of clergymen , and that here they 6 i have visibly declined , when compared with their bre , thren of an earlier period , " Such learn , ing indeed little suits the taste of our countrymen at this day , however calculated it is for their circumstances arid

    wants . How mortifying the contrast , in this instance , between the English universities on the one hand , and many a foreign university on the other ! When Br , Marsh , now Bishop of Peterborough , resided , which he did for some time , W Germany ^ w , a § frequently asked ,

    " tyhat is the plan of study adopted m your universities for those who are designjed to take orders ; to what branches of divinity do they particularly attend ; and how many years must a student have heard the different caupes of theological lectures , before lie is admitted to an office to % b& church ? " * f fje was unable at

    that time" ( they pe his own words ) " to give a satisfactory answer > because , " he adds , . ** theological learning forms no npce > s 3 i > ry pft ^ t of Qwjr jaje ^ emical educatjdn / 'f ^^ p ^ fl 0 ] hw 4 * been done

    j W ? 5 circiimst ^ u ce principally occasioned the composition and publication by-Br . [ then -Mr . J Marah of a most va-\] \^ M . ^ Jfrnw ° » ; t ) be . usefulness and ncf ^ sity of TheQljOgical Learning to those yi ^ fip are designed for Holy Orders , 1792 /' P # pj $ j . of , tjip . Es ^ ay ar ^ s hqw v rare ; and its rVpubHcatyqn ip . earnestty J o be desired . The ; necessity of theological learning is there enforced , as " the only mean of discovermg the sense of scripture , and the surest method of preventing a spirit

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 842, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/42/