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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
Dr. Rotheram's labours, though so valuable in their results, and highly creditable to his own character and reputation as a scholar and a divine, were almost exclusively addressed to his congregation and his pupils, The only piece of his that we have seen in print, is a Latin inaugural Dissertation, De Religionis Christianae Evidentia, which he published and defended in the usual forms of academical disputation, when he took his degree of Doctor in Divinity, in the College at Edinburgh, May 27, 1743. In this dissertation he ably refutes the notion strongly insisted on by many sceptical writers, and somewhat incautiously admitted even by Mr. Locke, that the probability of facts depending on human testimony must gradually lessen in proportion to the distance of the time when they happened, and at last become entirely evanescent. With respect to traditional evidence, properly so called, it may be admitted that this is true; namely, when our knowledge of the fact attested is derived fr