The Theological and Literary Journal Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... that which it exemplifies. But that is unauthorized and absurd. The tree from which Eve plucked the forbidden fruit doubtless resembled in many respects other trees of that and every subsequent period; but that is no ground for the supposition that it was typical of them. The death of Abel was an example, in its main features, of what death is to all others who pass under its power; but that is no ground for the fancy that it was typical of all other deaths. It is as senseless and preposterous as it were to hold that the blow by which Abel was struck from life was a type of all other blows, and the instrument with which it was inflicted, a type of all other material things with which blows are stricken. There are thousands of truths that are exemplified in the persons, acts, and occurrences that are embodied in the narratives of Genesis; but that exemplification is not peculiar to them; it is common to all other persons and events of all other ages; and Mr. Jukes might, with as much propriety, treat all other human beings and actions of which he has a knowledge as types, and undertake to deduce from them a " veiled" revelation, as to assign that office to the personages and actions of Genesis and the other Scriptures, and affect to detect in them a representative revelation of the things of the Spirit. 11. The Life Op John Milton, narrated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Times. By David Masson, M.A., Professor of English Literature in University College, London. With Portraits and Specimens of his Handwriting at different times. Vol. I., 1608-1639. Boston: Gould & Lincoln; New York: Sheldon & Co.; Cincinnati: G. S. Blanchard. 1859. This volume traces the history of the poet to his visit at Rome in his...