The Bampton Lectures for the Year Mdcccxxiv Being An Attempt to Trace the Hist
The Bampton Lectures for the Year Mdcccxxiv Being An Attempt to Trace the Hist
Jj Conybeare
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So Tertullian of Theotimus; " Multa circa imagines legis " operatus est. *" Adv. Valentin, cap. 4. That the spirit of their allegorical interpretation was very different from that which prevailed in the church, is evident from their rejecting the Epistles of St. Paul as savouring too much of "the literal and historical sense. See Semler, Hist. Eccl. P. 42. s Vid. Lib. Iii. Cc. 27. 29. 31. SS. Lib. Iv. Cc. 38. 49. 50. Lib. V. C. 4. &c. H 3 102 LECTURE III. the early heresiarchs ; schemes, which,... if they were meant to be literally accepted, were both absurd and blasphemous; if they were considered as the veil of mere meta- physical abstractions and speculations ^ were utterly useless as a religious creed, and repugnant both to the doctrines of the Gospel, and to the method in which those doctrines were propounded by its divine Author and his immediate followers. It appears to have contributed also to the disadvantage under which the fathers of this age occasionally exhibit themselves to the modern and more critical inquirer, that they were accustomed (besides adding somewhat of their own to the common stock) to adopt, without suspicion or ex- amination, such mystical or allegorical com- ments as had already been promulgated by, or received the sanction of their pious and orthodox predecessors.
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