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ARTICLE I . The Beneficial Effects of Christianity on the Temporal Con * c ems of Mankind ^ proved fro m History and from Fa c ts * By the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus , D , D . Lord Bishop of London . 2 d Edit * Svo . pj > . 90 * 2 s . Cadell and Davies , 1806 . We imagined , on first reading the title of this pamphlet , that it was a re-publication ^ by some bookseller , of one or more of the Bishop ' s sermons . It seemed to us improbable that any respectable writer should deem it necessary , at the present time ^ to prove that Christianity is beneficial in its tendency , seeing that the subject has been so lately exhausted in a controversy which has silenced ^ if it have not convinced , infidelity . It is more than useless to attempt to prove what may fairly be taken for granted ; it is ridiculous to presume upon proving , in a pamphlet of less than an hundred pages what may have failed of being demonstrated in volumes . No new facts remain to be developed concerning Christianity , and
any new hypotheses built upon facts long ascertained are more likely , in our opinion , to be fanciful than solid . Reasoning in this way , we opened the tract before us , and were surprised to find it not g / n extract from a former " work , or an abstract of the arguments of former writers , but an entirely new essay ^ intended apparently to close the controversy and to preclude all future doubt . With reference to this design , its merits must be tried . We have examined it with care , and
hesitate not to pronounce that it falls far short of its pretensions . Like all the Bishop ' s works , it displays plain sense , and a moderate compass of reading , but is at the same time tinctured with vulgar prejudices , sfod destitute of all genuine originality Novelty of one kind it does indeed-possess , for it is a compilation without "authorities , and a repetition of arguments that have often been forcibly and eloquently stated , from which all eloquence and force are carefully excluded * .
The Bishop avows , in the title of the pamphlet , that his object is to prove the excellence of Christianity < c from-history + <¦ * JLet the Bishops tract be compared with Dr . Robertson the historianV celebrated Sermon on the . " Time of our L . ord ' s Advent .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/37/
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