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&p . Burgess ' s Principles" 425
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ANIMADVERSIONS O 1 ST BP . BURGES ^ S " PRINCIPLES /* " My Lord , tJie subject here treated of is . of ' that nattlrc , that it would seem but a chimera , and a bold paradox , did it not in the very front carfy an instance to exemplify it . ***—( South . Ep * Ded . to Serin . Vol . I . ) " It is your Lordship ' s unhappiness to be cast upon an age in which the church is in its * wane z and if you do not those glorious things that our English prelates did two or three hundred years sinte ^ it is not Because your Lordsh I ip is at all less than- t& * y ? tut because the times are vroRsE . 'y ^ Idem . Vol . . p . 165 . ) To the JEdito ' r of the Monthly Repository \
Sir , I sit down to redeem the pledge which I gave you in the conclusion of my lastletter , of which , I fear , you may have con * eluded ^ from my long silence , that lam unmindful . In truth * I have been so much amused with the good-natured endeavours of your numerous correspondents to moderate and soften me * that I was unwilling by interposing a new letter to stop th& current of remarks upon my former letters , which has flowed
along your successive pages in so regular , so smooth , so candid a stream . Oil thrown upon troubled waters is ^ aid to calm them ; and the healing counsels of your pacific correspondents are intended , no doubt , to assuage the turbulence of my censures . You have shewn your impartiality in permitting the
experiment to be tried upon me ; I , my patience ^ in submitting silently to it ; now , with your leave , I will step forward agaia in my favorite character of Theological Censor , remarking only , for the benefit of your worthy fr iends , my gentle monitors , that if they wish to silence me , they must make use of other arguments than those which my letters anticipate ; if to
put me to shame , they must cease to argue against facts which are incontrovertible . Having thus explained the reason of the late date of this , and taken due notice of your correspondents , on whose account it
has been so long delayed , I proceed , without making any professions of candour , but with a determination jiot to swerve knowingly from the line of justice , , to animadvert upon thfc pamphlet I alluded to in my last , by a Right Reverend father * . n God . My censure takes a loftier aim than the humble Non-
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^ hi ch they took place . If WV H . or any other of your readers * after again comparing these accounts , should find any difficulty in assenting to the view which has been very briefly given of this subject , I shall be happy to communicate some remarks in its defence . I am ^ Sir's , your's ^ &c , July 12 , 1806 . - C * W ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/33/
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