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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. 1837 Excerpt:...superior elevation of Seneca's theism. (See Annot. to Acts, xvii. 15.) Ver. 29. malice. Tog«;x, «v»jg/a, in the received text, is a dupl. lect. conflata, originating in a similarity of elements, and misapprehension of abbreviations. The most ancient MSS. have only one of those words: the Codd. Vat. and Alex, read only vjig;a; the Clar. D2. reads only vogvua; the junior MSS. have united both readings. CHAPTER II. Ver. 14. is written in their hearts. The law " written by "God in the hearts of all men," of which St. Paul here speaks, is the foundation of what has been denominated, Natural Religion, and Natural Theology. But it is most important, that those who live within the light of the Gospel dispensation should not deceive themselves with respect to the true extent, and power of that natural religion. It is not within the sphere of revelation that its extent and efficacy can be truly traced. This can be only ascertained, from the authority it exercised in the ages preceding the effusion of that light, or in countries on which it has not shone. That which has called itself 'Natural Religion,' or 'Natural 'Theology,' in modern times and in Christian countries, consists, in an eminent degree, of unacknowledged plagiarisms from the Revelation within whose sphere it has been nurtured. By means of those plagiarisms, it adventures to place itself in competition with the light whose lustre it reflects: but, there is one test by which its vast inferiority will ever be demonstrable; it has not advanced one step, since the age of Cicero, in finding the desideratum pointed out by that honest heathen, namely, a means of ablution capable of expunging a 'lobes animi--a stain of the soul.' By that one test, its comparative value will always b...