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.

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1789
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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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    t 2JS ] the preacher is fpeaking here of mankind In general, of the wicked as well as the right¬ eous ; and can we imagine, that he would affert this of the former, that their fpirits re* turn after death to God ?* ” ■ '• > . • & & ^ % 0 - —That they, who in their intefpreta** tions of fcripture, pretend to the aid of im¬ mediate infpiration, or go by the rules of different kinds of cabhdlijm, fliould hold thefe rational criticifms in contempt, is not marvellous. But that they who pretend to read and explain the fcriptures by the help of grammatical and philological literature fhould overlook thefe neceffary diftindtioris* is unaccountable. To fome of thefe, there¬ fore, would I humbly recommend the deliberate confideration of the remarks of Gataker, Pearfon, and fome others, upon the ftyle of the facred writings, before they conclude from limilar, or even the fame ex- preffions, that Mojes, I) avid$ Solomon, and * Dawson’s Remarks on Stejfe, p* 261*