A letter to the Right Reverend Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's : occasioned by his sermon on the principle of vitality in man, &c. preached on Sunday, March 22, 1789, for the benefit of the Humane Society.

Date:: 1789

Credit: A letter to the Right Reverend Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's : occasioned by his sermon on the principle of vitality in man, &c. preached on Sunday, March 22, 1789, for the benefit of the Humane Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$( 1° ) Your Lordfhip goes on, (p. 9, 10.) “ But *c though I admit the poffibility of an Infpired “ Teacher's error of opinion, in fubjefts “ which he is not fent to teach, ^becaufe In- “ fpiration is not omnifcience, and fome things “ there mud be which it will leave untaught) ; (t and every man's liberty ; and proteft againft <c any obligation on the believer's confcience, “ to alien t to a philofophical opinion inciden- €c tally exp refled by Mofes, by David, or by cc St. Paul, upon the authority of their infal- “ libility in divine knowledge ; though 1 think “ it highly for the honour and the in t ere ft of Religion, that this liberty of philofophifing C£ f except upon religious fab]e bis III) fliould * This is excellent from a Divine who repeatedly [fee Drafts in Control, with Dr. P. p. 68, 70, 235.] recommends the ftudy of the Platonic Philofophy as peculiarly ufeful in illuftrating what he fuppofes to be the doftrines of the Chriftian fcriptures. What ail edifying difcuflion of this Alliance of Platonifm with Chrif- tianity might be imagined in a dialogue between the Bp. of St. David’s, Lord Monboddo, midi Mr. Thomas Taylor, the late cf ranfaior of Proclus ! Thefe philofophic heroes, though a little out of date in the end of the eighteenth century, Kagnroi [mv latc-v, xoat iucc^ovro, HC&l £K7fQ(rty/\(0$ C&7T0“G&V* be$