The Oriental Christian Spectator (Volume 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833. Excerpt: ... es a source of information, but comfort and stai-ili'v. A work wbieb he read on this subject was Locke's Reasonableness of Ohristianitv; and though be did not accede to all Locke's do trina' nentinv ts, he thought the work possessed great nurit. On the internal evid nc y he met with no work which exactly came up to his views of 'he sn'jjec' til1 h- took op the latter volume f a very able series of discourses on t' e Evdenccs of Christianity, by the present Bis1 op of Calcutta. From the evidences br proceeded to the doctrines, and r'ad Pwiglit's and Milton's System of Divinity, with many other tlieolo'iral works; bringing every statement and every train of argument to 'be test of the word of God. He examiner' witb much care the r-oin' ii) disi tiic between Unitarians and those generally known bv the term Orthorn On the principles of the former be read the writings o' Dr Ohanning of Amcriea; and though he admired his powers of eloquence he consider il him a most inconclusive reasoner. On the orth'dr.x side of the question, he read Dr. Pye Smith's Scripture Testimony to the P-m -f the Messiah; and his remark to a friend after its perusa'w as. 'Of this I: m pt.rfe! -!jr satisfied from reading th it book; I can readily conrei e a book, especially such a book as the Bible may have passages in to am t-ip'ioncal or figurative nature; but to suppose, as Socinians'do, that almost I be whole texture of the book, --a bock intended by infinite wisdom, for t'-e direction of mankind cn the most important of all subjects, is of tbi.i character, --is perfectly absurd: but so it must be considered, if their -entininnts are to be proved from it: their mode of proceeding-.. itli the Soriptutes is at variance, in my opinion, witb every fair system of eriti...