The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, Vol. 3: October, 1831 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, Vol. 3: October, 1831

Sacred Poetry and sacred Rhetoric have both shared, but too largely, m that inheritance from the heathen classics which has at once so enriched and corrupted the literature of Chris tian nations. The inspired volume alone, 1n its original and divine perfection, remains incorrupt and unmarred. Its poets and orators alone ale found guiltless of idolatry, of flattery, of selfishness, of disingenuousness, or vain glory. Whether by their antiquity, the peculiar customs and exclusive laws of their country, their unlettered condition, or solely and directly by the Holy Ghost, they were all secured from those fascinations of a foreign style and false philosophy, and an impure mytho logical fancy, which so often bewilder and betray those who essay to catch their spirit and execute their purposes. Even those devout and venerable Fathers who learned sacred eloquence from inspired lips, and employed its powers in a cause as sacred, are too often found like magnanimous, but unwary physicians, inhaling death While giving life; or like generous conquerors of a barbarous land, conferring liberty and peace, but catching tyranny and war, teaching truth, but learning error, imparting the gifts and graces of heavenly wis dom and Christian love, themselves, while, too often lin gering in wistful meditation beneath the unhallowed shades of Academus, or dwelling in unguarded speculation on the storied.

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