“The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.”

—  Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 32.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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