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«the son of man shall be three days and 
three nights in the heart of the earth,’ have 
Toda much cavilling among the enemies 
of christianity; since it appears that our 
Lord remained with the dead only from the 
eve of the Sabbath, to the morning after it. 
So heavy an objection need not rest on the 
shoulders of the churchmen, bet should de- 
scend with all its weight on the medical pro- 
fession; in which it has been usual, from 
Hippocrates to Galen, and from Galen to 
Sydenham, and onwards, to reckon days pre- 
cisely in the same manner as the evangelists ; 
Art. IV. The English Diatessaron; or the History of our Lord Jesus Christ, &e. 
By the Rev. R. W. Warner. 
IN the year 1800, was published by 
Dr. White, the ¢elebrated Arabic pro- 
fessor of Oxford, a work under the title 
of Diatessaron, being a narrative, in 
Greek, of the history of our Saviour, 
compiled from the writings of the four 
evangelists. It is divided into parts or 
periods, and is furnished with useful 
marginal indications of the time and 
place of the events and discourses which 
are recorded. ‘That hypothesis respect- 
ing our Lord’s ministry is here adopted, 
which assigns to it a duration of three 
years and a half. This work of Dr. 
White, Mr. Warner here presents to the 
public in‘an English dress, using the 
words of the common authorised version. 
The utility of the general design is ob- 
vious. In adapting the different narra- 
tives to each other, and to chronological 
computation, some room is left for the 
exercise of judgment, and perhaps, after 
all that has been said and written upon 
the subject, of controversy. In this part 
of the work, Mr. Warner, however, as- 
sumes only the office of an editor; the 
system rests with the original author. 
We should have thought it a more de- 
sirable plan, if no part of the original 
had been omitted, but the most circum- 
stantial narratives placed in the text, and 
SACRED CRITICISM. 
Notes on the Bible: by the late Rev. Cuarres Burkey. 
the Authors Manuscript ; with Memoirs of the Author and his Works, by Josuva 
Toutmin, D. D. 3 vols. 8vo. pp. 685, 502, and 439. 
ArT. V. 
THE author of this work has been 
long known to the public, as an ingeni- 
ous and learned writer upon subjects of 
considerable importance. From a well 
written memoir of his life, prefixed to 
the third volume, we learn that he was 
descended from the pious Henrys, and 
that he received his academical education 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
thus at whatever hour of the day or evening 
a fever commences, that day is called the 
first. If shiverings take place at six o'clock 
p- m. and the fever continues over the next a 
day and night, but should have its crisis on 
the second morning at seven or eight o'clock, — 
this fever would be denominated a fever of © 
three days. Those who will not respect an- — 
cient medical authority and usage, must be 
referred on this, as on all other important ~ 
points, to the learned and elaborate collec- 
tions of Grotius, Hammond, Whfitby, and 
Doddridge.” } 
8vo. pp. 330. 
parallel passages of the other evange- — 
lists, inserted in the form of notes. In 
one circumstance of technical arrange- — 
ment, in which Mr. Warner has depart- | 
ed from Dr. White, he has rendered his 
work rather less convenient : the chrono- 
logical and topographical remarks are 
placed only at the beginning of the sec- 
tions ; the parts also are numbered only 
at the commencement of each, while, 
in the Greek edition, these notices occur 
in every page. . 
To the narrative, Mr. Warner has © 
subjoined notes, mtended to be explana- 
tory and illustrative of the text to com- 
mon readers, which are usually selected 
with judgment. | Into original criticism 
he rarely deviates, and cautiously ab- 
stains from topics of theological contro- 
versy. His liberality, however, appears 
in the sources of his information: he has — 
not disdained to borrow aid from these © 
who are usually termed heretics; nor, © 
what is still more to his credit, to pay 
them the tribute of praise which is justly | 
due, at least in many instances, to their 
sagacity, learning, and love of. truth, © 
even from those who dissent most widely — 
from the opinions which they have seen | 
it their duty to maintain. 
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under the excellent Doddridge: a name — 
of which the protestant dissenters will — 
never cease to boast; which learning 
and piety will never cease to honour. 
Soon after he left Northampton, he ap- 
pears to have joined himself to the ge- 
neral baptists; and for a long series of 
years he continued the labours of a> 
