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conformist teacher ; but say not I am therefore presumptuous I mean no personal disrespect to the dignitary in question , for though I have no predilection for his order , I can talk of it , and that even with my old companions whom I left in the church , and who still continue there * . without losing my teni * per ; my coolness , indeed , in discussing this subject , has
occasioned them frequently to say , with a good-humoured smile , that I am but half a Presbyterian z a character which I should not be surprised to learn mv former letters have gained me
among such of your readers as are Non-conformists by blood . Bi s hop Burgess ( for this is the writer I intend to bring under review ) is , I hear , an eminent scholar ; I say I hear so , because never having had a better education than a good country-gram-:
mar-school could supply , where there were few of us that mastered the Latiq , and none , that I remember at this distance of time ^ that made any proficiency in the Greek ,. I should not venture to pronounce such an opinion upon xny own authority , I believe , at the same" time , the opinion is correct ^ for I have borrowed it of a literary friend , who has spent the greater part of his life within the walls of a college , and who does me the honour to pass a few weeks every year under my roof . If then the bishop would not awe me into reverence , the scholar , at feast , would command my respect . In examining the lesions of a Christian teacher , I know not , however , that I am bound to consider either his rank or his acquirements ; religion knows nothing of them , and common sense would teach that if they are just , they ought ( abstractedly ironi the man ) to be received ; if otherwise , to be rejected .
This pamphlet , Sir , of Bp . Burgess ' s is entitled u First Principles of Christian Knowledge / ' The title excited my curiosity , which was . also further sharpened by my perceiving in the advertisement , that the tract had come in a short time to a third edition . I expected—who would not ?—a clear and masterly statement of the elements of Christianity , and was
prepared to rank the name of Burgess with those of Douglas ^ Hufd , Paley , and Watson . I will tell you , without any comment , what this promising pamphlet really contains . It consists of four parts : the first , an " Introduction , on the duty of conforming to the Established Church , as good subjects and
good Christians ; " the second , " an Explanation of the more difficult terms and doctrines in the Church Catechism , and Office of Confirmation ; ' * the third , «« the Three Church Creeds exemplified and proved from the Scriptures ;** the fourth , an " Appendix / ' consisting of " Extracts from the Canons , Acts of Parliament , Royal Declarations , &c * -relative to the Government , Discipline , and " Public Worship of the
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426 Bp . Burgess ' s Principles"
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/34/
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