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a Sun and VOL. I From the Midnight Cry. The following.extract from an English work by R. M. Beverley, is an illustration of modern preaching . There are many manifest inconvenien ces, as there are also son^ advantages, in applying learning to the study of the Serna-* tures; but I fear that the disadvantages greatly preponderate, when the range eru dite theology it entrusted to th&minis* try. I need not here appeal td history .to prove how many disastrous heresies and schisms have sprung up in the church from thejiot-bed of human learning Mfe many ware and tumults haye arisen from the controversies and argute disputations of learned divines. Baronius has assert ed, that the great part of all heresieafftMe originated not with the ignorant multitude, si but with men of much intellect |arid re search, with men of taleut andof elevated station in the church, with bishops and high dignitaries, who began wjjjh lions and dexteroua-cavils, and enuH with schilm and open rebellion. Dr. Owen, himself one of the most learped of divintfl^ has remedied thatlf^vould be difficult to’ sum up all the mischief that had^lesdlai* ed the church, through the labors of eccle* siastics, with subtle heads aiid unsanctifi ed hearts: afldtffee truth of mnFremS^ we can ourselves verify, by turning oifr eyes to Germany, where the tribe of ne ologists and sceptics are constantly rising to the surface, with some curious jewel of unbelief, fished up with infinite labor from the depths of hell; or to America, where the portals of theqlogkt seminaries are pouring’forth cloudj^B'fT>elagiap and Sa bellian locusts, w1ilte horses prepared un to battle, and with fkces as the faces of mem*,* ^ W, He that reads thq Bible in the old way, ^#lvalkintfiwith great delight, it ly a placed broad rivers and streams ^#re gofitft.no gaily- with oars;** the wa ters are silent* majestic, undisturbed; they are “4he still waters/* ahd he by faith is Shepherd, who leads his Hock by the ver dant, margins, “to make their souls likjllfc watered garden;*’ he searches that he niay find him ; but if he finds him not, he is distressed and perplexed, and, in the lan guage of holy love, says within himself, “ Tell me, *© thou whom ray soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to ^est at noon; for why shoufd I be as one that turneth aside from the " flocks of thy companions?** V #But when hejeads the Bible in the new fwl^jffrheg the .glare of modern exe.ge.sii dazzles his eyes, when the German light Has been let in upon the scene, he seems immediately to stand upon the shores Mm boundless ocean, whose waves are dark) restless, and conflicting; “the galleys pass with oars,” and “ the gallant ships,” in abundanpe; but it is for an evil trade, and many are shipwrecked before his eyes* swallowed up in hopeless infidelity, The Good Shepherd is gonegjte is no wheye to be found; all the winds of heaven seen! to conspire to drown the very sounsLof his name, and the hubbub ofjjjjjl meanings/' “ orientalisms,” “1 allusions,” “ mythic phraseology, rative expressions, JJj&sgpric “ poetical ornaments,'1 “ grammatical con structions,” “ usua^loquendi,” Re called into the scene, to make canfbsi<ar worse confounded, ani to turn the .Scriptures of truth into a volfipie of dishonest trickery or studied obscurity, whose dark- page* none but leargwi academicians and deep-* read scribes eanfp&ipibly explain. ^jpgive one instance, and it is ind one amongst thousands. That pgiMfei the prophecies ofjjaiah, beginning with the 13th verse of thfted chapter, and ewd-*
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