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    settled . The data are manifestly wanting for the process of the argument . Whatever is supernaturally inspired must , it is obvious , manifest itself at once , and unless such inspiration extend to all translators , printers , commentators ^ and divines , it must probably be of such a nature ^ that fallible man cannot

    injure ' or conceal it * How far then this golden and heavenly treasure is communicated in earthen vessels , is certainly deserving of the most serious and impartial consideration . Hence it is much to be wished , that Mr . Palmer had published those letters , in which Mr , Or ton . so freely remonstrated with his friend Holland , as well perhaps as those in which I . know Mr , Holland defended himself . If the former can be 'found , I for one shall be desirous to see them in your or any other Magazine ; and if they be printed , I trust that Mr . P . will not withhold the replies , which , if in existence ^ are probably in the possession of himself or of some of his friends . It is indeed likely that they were written , in short hand , which if Mr . P . finds any difficulty in deciphering , he has only to send them to me * Mr . Holland , I suspect , did not keep any copies of them , yet that point I shall do my endeavour to ascertain , as well as to

    procure , if possible ^ the free remonstrances in question . From the asterisks , which follow the passage quoted from the letters , it seems as if some farther remarks on the same subject had beep omitted by Mr . Palmer . When such marks are made-j the mind is often only the more curiouB to know what

    does not appear , or to suspect that the omissions were of a very different nature from the fact . If there be , however , in the original MS . a further attack upon Mr . Holland ' s opinion , it

    might be desirable that the world should see it , for the sake of bringing a most important subject into candid and impartial discussion . Injustice also to Mr . Godwin , it maybe adejed , that whilst he represented many of the Protestant Dissenters in

    the beginning of the 18 th century as severe , bigotted , and morose ., he lamented , as much as Mr . Orton , the lax principles and the dissipated manners which have often disgraced such as have professed more"liberal opinions . Some extracts from the sermon on religious zeal , preached at the ordination in question , when the charge was delivered by ' Mr . Holland ( both printed for Johnson , in 1180 , together with Enfield's discourse on the . Progress of Religious Knowledge ) might abundantly

    justify ' those sentiments of the preacher , which , from a certain sombre cast of irtind , or from a prejudice in favour of whatever was puritanical , Tvlr . Orton seems to have misconceived . If then Mr . Palmer can find the letters which contain Mi \ Or ton ' s sentiments on the subject of inspiration , the publication of them in your Repositorv , or in some other periodical work ,, might

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    464 Remarks on Orton $ Letters ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/16/