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Sir , Preston , Aug . 20 , 1815 . I am a great admirer of Paley ' s Horse Paulina , and think that he has displayed great skill arid judgment in Pointing out a very important internal evidence of the truth of Christianity ,
and in elucidating many difficult pas-** ges in the epistles of St . Paul . At utesatne time / there is one part of the wook , Which always appeared to me toftaior to the re » t . The ingenious
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author supposes that , after Paul ' s first imprisonment at Rome , he made another journey into the east , and visited the various churches which he haSA founded in Greece and Asia Minor ; and to the time of this supposed
journey Paley refers some of the epistles , and among others that to Titus . This prevents him from availing himself of these epistles in support of his main argument to- shew that the constant agreement between the epistfes and the acts is greater than could have arisen either from chance or
contrivance ; and it also burdens him with the difficulty of reconciling this supposed journey with the speech of St . PaultotheEphesian elders , Acts xx . 25 , ** that they should see his face no more . ** Now I think there is nothing in the epistles which renders it necessary to
suppose that Paul ever made this jour * ney ; and the Epistle to Titus , I hop £ to be able to prove , must be referred to an earlier period . This epistle , also , when compared with the passaged
which I shall mention in the latter part of this tetter , will , I think , furnish a " strong confirmation of Dr . Paley-s main argument . The passagein Titus , to which I refer , is Hi . 12 , 13 , " When
I shall send Artemas to thee , or Ty chicus , be diligent to come to me toMcopolis , for I have determined there to winter ; bring Zenas the expounder of the law , and Apollos , on their journey diligently , that they lack nothing /* From this , and the i . 5 , it appears that
the epistle must have been written at some time when it was probable that Apollos might speedily pass through Crete , when Paul had lately beeli m Crete , and would soon beatNicopolis . Novi , from Acts x vi . 15 , " and she constrained us" xvii . 1 , •* now as they passed
through Amphipolis , " it appears that Paul left Luke at Philippi in his first journey through Greece . Paul then went by Athens to Corinth , where he stopped a year and a half , and sailed by Ephesus to Jerusalem , He then
returned through Asia Minor to Ephesus , where he remained between two and three years , and hence he wrote his Epistles to the Corinthians . He then went through Macedonia , where there is a city called Nicopolis , to
Corinth , and on his return to Asia passed through Philippi , where he was joined by Lime , as appears from Acts xx , 5 , 44 These went before , and tarried for us at Troas- * ' It is not probable that either at Corinth , or at Ephesus , Paul
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On thettih Chapter of tJte Book of fob . fl 43
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donv and all his counsels are guided try it ; for nothing is hid from him . AH those mighty arrangements of nature which we admire , pronounce that when he first ordered them , and calculated the great plan of creation , he
&aw Wisdom , and understood , yea , searched out ail her ways . He then , it is , to whom wenrust apply for wis dom ) and behold he has told us , from the beginning , what constitutes our true and real wisdom , what will
supply to our limited capacities the place of that universal knowledge for which they are not intended , namely , godly reverence of Him who is the Fountain of Wisdom , producing humble submission to his will , and a resolute
departure from every thing which he has pronounced to be evil ; or , " the fear of the Lord , ' &c . This conclusion is in the spirit of enlightened philosophy ; it reflects a genuine though feeble ray of revealed tfeligion - it is a lesson which we , who enjoy a fuller and more assured light , 4 t once need to learn , and must
endeavour to improve . That godly reverence and fear of Jehovah , that resolute departure from every evil way , is the truest wisdom and the summary of all understanding ; it will be happy for us if we from the first confidently believe , without waiting to have this
great truth forced upon us in the severe school of experience * It will be touch for our peace and happiness , if we enter upon life with that humility which becomes our limited capacities
and powers ; if , taking a just estimate of oar means of obtaining knowledge , we learn early the duty of submission to the inscrutable counsels of God . Let us dwell on such salutary reflections , on our own weakness and igriorance , and on the vast unknown
designs of the Almighty , as may effectually restrain lis from leaning to our own understanding , and powerfully move us to repose our trust , with the whole heart , upon the Lord . A .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 645, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/45/
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