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c&tise of religion / ' ( Take cognisanfcrb / is a judicial term ) . 205 . 206 . ** the soldiers of Cromwell ' s regitnent argued in behalf of the xight * of conscience — \ and that ( and maintained that ) it was not ,
&c . " 281 . " there is , besides , the esprit de corps , which conspires ¦ with the others , ' > ( with the other motives . ) 3 C 0 . " This shocks me more than the other , ( the other argument- ) 341 . " Ten thousands of souls which the stein
injunction of this rite plunged into misery , by being deprived of ( by depriving them of ) these faithful aniuislers . " Vol . II . 109 . " It was necessary for them to study their discourses . ' . ( From the construction it is impossible to perceive who are meant : itsho \ ild have been C 6 for the successors of
the nonconformist ministers / ' ) For similar examples of inaccuracy , ' we shall refer our readers to pp . 188 , \ 9 % 233 , in the same volume . Among many instances of a mixture of metaphors and of incongruous images , the following are particularly offensive :
Vol . I . p . 4 . Whoever was the first herald of mercy to this ible , probably came without pomp -and noise ; and having scattered the seeds of divine truth left them
to be watered with the dew of heaven , and departed to find his najne in a nobler volume than that oil fame , " 56 V what can we think —of the establishment which
contained so many thousand weathercocks , who , after having been reconciled , &c , now relapsed . 96 . ' * . the elevated tone of morals which their sentiments and
example will secretly inspire . 145 , 14-6 . " Luther , from whose writings they were said to have derived
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the germ of their / pri nc iples , £ « un dcred against them with' all & $ heat of hi § genius . " 151 . " tl ! m separation , &c . naturally MncLltd the flames of controversy . " 17 <> u he still laboured for its welfare with the courage of a lion and the patience of a martyr" 221 . " of the success of a minister , &c . there can scarcely be a more true barometer . " 404 405 . while many by rushing into the Jire ^ were in . volved iu ilame and smoke , some
were earnestly desirous to heal the wounds which were so injurious to the dissenting body , and to tlose the breach which opened a way for the assaults of their common adversaries / ' Vol . II . 270 . " he shed on the mind of others th&t
heavenly ray which exalted him , Sec . 9 353 . " the failures of inquisitorial weapons compelled it ( the catholic church ) toforge new arms , by cultivating those branches of learning which would render it respectable in the eyes of the
world , and mighty in . the field of of controversy . 3 S 2 . * The massacre of Glencoee , which has been deemed the greatest blot in William ' s government , had soured the minds of tbc people . ^
It is timci however , to relieve our readers and ourselves , from the weariness attending the pern * sal of sentences thus execrably written . Most of the aj ? ove examples remind us of the trea *
tise on the Bathos - , and were the attempt made to exhibit these several assemblages to the eye ; by the aid of the pencil , even TVJr . Bogue and Mr . Bennett wcjuld surely hesitate whethcrto lati ^ h or frown at such monstrous
groups . So inveterate iV ^?^ ° " pensity of these gentlerneii ' t 6 "dcal in irietaphorsj that sooner than
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504 Review . - ~ -Bogue and'BennetVs History of "Dissenters .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/30/
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