the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

[335] of the exact sense of many passages in the New Testament writers. The rules and observations contained in those lectures were illustrated by a vast number of quotations from both parts of the sacred volume, as well as by many from Greek and Latin classics, They professed to be chiefly an abridgment, or rather a reduction to order, of the substance of Glassius's Philologia Sacra, but were enriched with many additions from other sources as well as from the Doctor's own stores. When he had thus thoroughly grounded his pupils in the languages of both Testaments, and, probably, read with them a considerable portion of each, he led them through a regular course of theological lectures; for which purpose he drew up, as a text book, his scheme of scripture divinity, which was printed for the use of the students at the expense of the trustees of the academy, and, after his death, was published to the world at large by his son, Mr. Richard Taylor, of Norwich. It has since been admitted by Bp. Watson into his collection of Theological Tracts; and it is certainly a very learned and valuable work, though by no means so perfect as its author, had he lived, would probably have made it.

The general idea is certainly excellent of studying the divine dispensations historically. The introduction contains a series of observations, on the whole very judicious, on Christian theology; on the rules to be observed in interpreting the Scriptures; and on the dispositions which it is necessary that the student should bring with him to their successful investigation. Then follow some remarks on the divine dispensations; in which, among much good, there is, it must be