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Art . H . —Hints to the Public a ? id the Legislature on the Natur * ^ and Effect of Evangelical Preaching . By a Barrister . Part / the Third . * 8 \ ro . pp . 1 . 4 O . Johnson . 1800 .
» r We have been dispassionate , but not uninterested , spectators of the contest carrying on between tbe Barrister , and the self-denominated Evangelical preachers .
' « In our review of the two former Parts of the « Hints , " [ M . Repos . Vol . III . p . 104—107 , and p . 499—508 . ] we examined the pretensions , and endeavoured to estimate the strength 5 of the parties ; we distributed praise and blame with an impartial hand ; and we brought forward arguments and . s&ggi'Sted advice , which
> ve humbly thought not unworthy of attention from those engaged on both sides of the controversy . As we predicted , the wai of pamphlets has been zealously supported ; and it , is not likely
soon to terminate . Whatever may b its ultimate effect upon the actual disputants , tH « public will profit by it . The Barrister has written hirxtself into a rational theological faith ; and will , no doubt , if he proceed , write him-8 o ) f . 4 ) uit of ijUpleranee ; . and the Evangelical party seem to be conf k
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vinced that they have run into some extravagances ^ which , ait the suggestion of an enemy , it is not beneath them to correct * - The ferment of passion attend ^'
ing the discussion will , at length , necessarily subside ; the grosser ingredients in the controversy wilt have worked themselves off ; - and the matter in dispute will become clear to the public eye .-
The Barrister writes "without a plan . The Third Part of fa is iC Hints * ' consists of desultory reasoning on subjects sufficiently argued in the fotmer Parts . The new matter introduced bears 4 > i £ t
a small proportion to the -whote * pamphlet , mid relates t& qtfod iC Pilgrim ' s Progress , '' and't ^ Dr . Hawker and his evangelical ' coadjutors , c " The " Tinker of Bedford ?*
calls forth all the Barrister ' spowogv of invective . Hte memory is less spared by this bitter ene ^ my , than his person was by thq magisitracy of bis day . Some of foiY coarse painting is ^ brought intoview ^ , and f detatcjbed from hi ^ whole M ^ isioni
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fi gures and cbmparispns shall be w ^ ntirtg to their history they will borrow them , regardless of theapplication , from Tacitus * and Virgilf . What would be intel - lia ' ible and attractive ^ in a simple unaffected stile , they render obscure and nauseous , by a most unnatural union of images 5 some of which are mean and others
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excessively inflated * Yf > £ h % S $ ? h brought yourself into a , se irap ^ ' ^ said the late Lord Chief ^ usti <^ Eyre , to a witness 1 at the Old ^ Bailey , ** you have brought ^ y « o } it- self into a scrape only for , th ^ sake of a flourish : — -if you would ^ only speak plain English ^ yQIMt ^ would be under no difficultyj , ' * i ( To be continued *} _ , ;' ,,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/31/
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