The Bampton Lectures for the Year MDCCCXXIV.

ciencies or inaccuracies as may be discovered by more experienced scholars, he would urge, that his materials were arranged, and the greater part of his work composed, at a considerable distance from those literary resources which are to be found only in our larger public libraries.

He has been careful, as far as it was in his power, to draw his own materials from, and refer the student to, original sources of information, rather than to transcribe the compilations of more modern writers. Where he is indebted to these latter only, the acknowledgment will usually be found in the notes. Should his labours tend in the smallest degree to lighten those of others, or even to call their attention to the details of a subject possessing certainly no inconsiderable interest for the theologian, his object will be fully attained. all events it is his hope and prayer, that

the following pages may not be found to contain any thing injurious to the faith,

or repugnant to the feelings of the pious and sincere believer.

June 1824.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

PROVERBS Xxii. 20.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and

knowledge?

Subject proposed. Different opinions as to the re-
ality and extent of the secondary or mediate sense.
Grounds for asserting its existence. Use of the Jewish
commentaries in this question doubtful. Proofs of such
a sense best drawn from the New Testament. Spiritual
expositions of St. Paul. Popular belief of the Jews.

LECTURE II.

1 CORINTHIANS ii. 5.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men.

Allegorical interpretation of Scripture previous to
the age of the New Testament. Traces in the apocry-
phal writings. School of Alexandria. Detail of the
system and expositions of Philo Judæus.

LECTURE III.

1 CORINTHIANS ii. 5.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men.

Proofs of this sense from the New Testament. Traces

in the earliest ages of the church. Apostolical fathers.
Clemens Barnabas. Homilies of the Pseudo-Clemens.
Justin Martyr. Irenæus. Tertullian.

LECTURE IV.

1 CORINTHIANS ii. 5.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men.

Interpretations of the Alexandrian school, not re-
stricted by the regula fidei. Clemens Alexandrinus.
Origen. Subsequent writers. Eusebius, Cyrillus Alex-
andrinus, Macarius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Athanasius, Ba-
sil, Gregory Nazianzen, Chrysostom. Theodorus of
Mopsuestia adverse to the allegorical method. Mode-
ration of Theodoretus. Latin fathers between the age
of Tertullian and Jerom. Comparison of the methods
followed by the Alexandrian and Latin schools.

LECTURE V.

PSALM lxxviii. 2.

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark say-

ings of old.

Method of Jerom. Of Augustin. His Doctrina

Christiana. Liber Regularum of Tichonius. Bede. Rha-

banus Maurus. His Liber Allegoriarum. Translations

of the Pseudo-Dionysius. Bernard. Schoolmen. T.

Aquinas. Effect of controversy with the Jews. R.

Martini. Wicliff. Albigenses. Licence of allegorizing

in the Romish church.

LECTURE VI.