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ON SOME PARTS OF THE

OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

WHICH HAVE BEEN SUPPOSED UNSUITABLE

TO THE

DIVINE ATTRIBUTES.

BY

RICHARD TWOPENY, M. A.

RECTOR OF CASTERTON PARVA, RUTLAND;

AND FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

"If this antidote of ours shall correct the misapprehension of some concern-
ing our God, it will be no small recompense, that I have done good to any. But
if that effect shall not follow, even this will not be without satisfaction; that I
have endeavoured to do good. For the application of the mind to an important
study and pious object, although the work may not attain the end proposed,
has yet the reward arising from the consciousness of a right intention."
Salvian. de Gubernat. Dei. Præfat.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

1824.

PREFACE.

THE immediate occasion of committing the following observations to paper, was the shock which the writer received from seeing the actions of some of the persons recorded in Scripture, urged, in one of the weekly publications of the day, in justification of the crime of assassination. From considering whether the example alleged were a case in point; he was naturally led to inquire, how far the moral attributes of the Deity, as they are called, are implicated in the representation made of these things in Scripture; and whether that representation at all impeaches the credit of it, as the history of a divine revelation. But it appeared, that this subject could not be satisfactorily discussed, without taking it up on general principles;