
1796.) : The Enquirer. No. Vil, | « I 
dil : 
for public nhineee he delivered popu- few populace to reformation of man- 
lar precepts of morality *; andthatafter- ners, and taught different cla laffes of men 
wards, at Crotona, 1 in Mag Grecia, ,h e Le refpective duties. . Jefus Chrift ex- 


coll rd citizens abcut BEE ig ited a nev x excallent pattern of 
claffés, and by his moral leGtures produced public’ teach and it was a ee A 
fuch an entire change 1 e manners of proof ofM@Mis benevolent fpirit, that he 






theg@itizens, that from extreme luxury preache | to the poor. Sac. of con - 
they were es to ftrict gos and veying moral inffiruction ‘the vehicle 
frugality +. But the account of Pytha- of cae or parable, “- Wiatiy im- 







goras are cee in obfeurity ; and of preflive; and it was ad ay bd 
ae lectures we have no othér remains, highett wifdom, to the nines of 
than a, dem dark fayings, and a brief his auditeries, which w alaggit “Uni- 
ummar S popular doétrines, inthe ,Verially compofed perfons of contined 
“© Goldene Verfes” _commonly vale education, more efiible through the °{ 
to him, but. Rebably drawn’ uj medium of the imagination, than ‘by Clg ys 
of his difciples. 
ot beineeion adoptec 
are better informed: 
treafure ef ancient moral 
pane, prell 
‘thofe converfations, -in 
man inftraéted the people 
the ubies oP hit fe. ae es hi 
Concerning them . » re&t addreffes to the undertandiae. 
Beerateshwe*- It is much to. be lamented that the 
method of moral inftruétion, introdiced 
5 by the great ‘* preacher of rightcouf— 
j dhered 




i rhe 
many “of hefs,’’ was not more: religion 
Ls greg to by. his fucceflors.. Fror 
thens in however, when the metaphyfic 
ueftion- ties of the Platomic fchools. wer 
bes to. poratedgavith the fimple dott rine 
ofonhy from Caritt r—-an event which feems to 
‘ee ae eae nt eee cing her Artin have ta place in fome meatute, even 
the public unre and efticretirements. Withinthe ee mtury--1tt uf beowned, 
of men; and his method of tne | by. that the Chriftian mode publi icin= 
aferies of quettions, beg rcep- firuétion lot a great pa € 
tibly.to the conclufion he h Pview, tical utility. line "a 3 
was admirably calcu dated t to preduce mo- » technical language of the “/ drine 
ral conviéti but this mode was lefs “#thoolg were interwe with t 
Waited toe rpofe of general info he: see) Seams -hriftian morals ; the fanciful 
tion, and was, obvioully f ede method Or ote pets p ture, which 
public inftgudtion. nate been Hd ule amongsthemjewith doc~ 
If we fearch MeAriftian fa-. 
ins took a a polemic and 


















: ape 



















receden) ss the 
fo 







prefent fubjeét, amongithe ancient jess thers and 
we thall find no arance Of po {cholate 1c t ich impaired its ufe- 
inftru€tion, in the early period of nae fulne fgg ument of moral im- 
e evil continued and en- 





and occafional admonitions-and warnings creafed, through many centuries ; ot 
from their prophets, ivered with ade- till the reformation, rons, inftead of 
gree of obleurity, wh permit ee ee e and ufeful leétures on 
tion. Ata later pe jod, anations tis or the ae and ane of 
Peak the written and ; march 5 eee, eG 
3 Ware imtroduced; but they abeunded hi y fteri ane oe erefiing, ore 
cK, ; y ‘ sid AS idicy yi " 
— 5 oricaly fancies and. cabaliftic ridiculous, panegyrics on, the Maesin 
oa a other faints. gi 
© confound 
rfanding. No e € reformation, though 11 
e prefent , would think of the fottndation of the ancient edifice of 
| Ato ‘he Mi ifhna of Jehuda, or fuperftition, did not entirely abolifh the 
“the Jezirah of Akibhah, to learn the be my ftical and fcholaftic method zi: preach- 
method of en lightening ame wena: ing. The refériners themfelves were as 
he era of ‘popul initruétion may, deeply immerfed in theological £0 
Borie, be faid to oa commenced with @sitite church from which they f 
a very few exceptir among 
at of the Chriftian wiligi John, ‘Wie - 
ne precurfor of Gigif ech the eae may be particularly nentioned 
Se that bold caftigator of the vices of hs 
am s, the good lak fhop ‘Latimer, and, af- 
terwards, bifhop Taylor and Dy. Bars 
hiftory, but the daily ional ef the law, Prove 






















% Famblich. Vit. Pyth. ¢. v. ee : ilk ed 
+ Suir, AG s ; -Fcow, preachers till Contin {O enve = 
4 ak 2 lope | 

