Guido and Julius Author:August Tholuck Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: involved so much of timid apology and unchristian concession, that they rather aided than obstructed the progress of infidelity. A remarkable passage to this... more » effect, is that of the illustrious scholar, John Augustus Ernesti, in his Review of Dr. John Taylor's Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistle to the Romans. " We must make one observation more, on a passage in the Preface to this work, which is very necessary to be known, and should never drop out of sight, in the reading of English books in defence of revelation against the Deists; in order to the forming of a correct judgment, how far the cause of revealed religion is indebted to these writers. Chancellor Pfaff laments, as we have already mentioned, the translation of those deistical books into German; and he has reason enough to do so. But he comforts himself with the fact, that the apologetic writings, in reply to them, are translated also. This, however, is not a very satisfactory ground of consolation. We have before observed, that in these books, not much is said that Deists need be afraid of upon the main point; and we shall now give an eiample from the celebrated writer before us. Taylor, in his Preface, treats upon the kingdom of God under the gospel. After a sketch of his subject, he proposes to show that the gospel is widely different from natural religion, and far superior to it. But, when he comes to a closer explanation of wherein that difference and that superiority consist, nothing comes forth but this same natural religion brought into a superior light, and with more ' clear disclosures of advantages, motives, and hopts, than the wisest philosophers had known: the amount of which is, that''' Dr. Erskine's " Sketches and Hints of Church History and Theological Controversy," published in 1790 and 1797, disc...« less