Thirdly, you must read Eichorn's
Introduction to the Old and New Testament
, and the
Apocrypha
, and his comment on the
Apocalypse
; to all which my notes and your own previous studies will supply whatever antidote is wanting; — these will suffice for your Biblical learning, and teach you to attach no more than the supportable weight to these and such like outward evidences of our holy and spiritual religion.
So having done, you will be in point of professional knowledge such a clergyman as will make glad the heart of your loving father,
S. T .Coleridge.
N. B