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    certainly offends a chastfe eye by its . grossness . But , putting aside his : , highistirained Calvinism ^ we question whether his great work be so mischievous in its tendency

    as our author represents ; and we ttiink ih&t justice required that the ingenuity of his allego ry ^ and the well-sustained liveliness anxl originality of - his pictures , should have been admitted , in barof

    unqualified censure . - The " Pilgrim ' Progress'' ranks deservedly high , perhaps , next to * Rqbinson Crusoe , '* amongst wprks of imagination ; - and not a few of the writers who have contributed to

    English literature , have acknowledged their obligations , in very early-life , to the study of this rejnarkable fancy-piece . John Bunyan ' s personal character is < an unfortunate case for the

    Barrister , for it is undeniable that by the influence of . religion , in the erroneous view that he took of it , he w&s transformed from a wricked into ^ righteous man . Vulgar he was , after , as well as before his conversion , but the change was surely beneficial . In fact , no mad of bad morals can become a

    scripts religionist , in any church , or wider any system of faith , without being reformed and improved . Religion , in its most corrupt state > lays a restraint upon the passions , and [ - sets a guard over the coru < duct .

    pi \ Hawker seems determined to meet the Barrister whenever he takes the field , and , as a writer , is wnaue ^ tionably the most re-

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    ' spectacle of the defenders of tli © new evangelical faith , Wi tf * ^ ui ^ our author reasons most closely and no impartial man can deny that he has the superiority in point of argument . The Dr . has come into the- contest very ill .

    appointed ; his theological knowledge extends not . beyond th $ thirty-nine article ^ and a few detached and perverted passages of Paul ' s Epistles . It is pity that his friends do not dissuade him

    from persevering in the unequal war . Since the controversy , began , one of the champions of orcho ^ doxy , W . IJ . Collyer , has received ecclesiastical knighthodd , —the diploma of Doctor in Divinity * , from the chief Scottish University : upon this subject the Barrister

    makes merry ; and , in good carnest , the mode in Tvhich this fact was communicated to the put / Iic was trul y ridiculous . Some persons , we know , were disglisted , ra » ther than amused ,. with the vain ., glory displayed in the whole of this transaction ; but , if we suffer

    ourselves to be seriously affected by men ' s foibles , we shall po leave ourselves sufficient strength to lash their vices , at least , with proportionate severity . There is one gentleman of evangelical notoriety , who § eems to

    have provoked tfye wrath of tb £ Barrister ,, and with whojn he keeps no terms ; we mean Mr . Stylesj who was lately so unfortunate as to afford * by a sad blunder , sport for the unrnercitui

    ? Academic | 3 t 1 es are so flattering to the vanity of authors , that we ought oot to bear hard upon such ' as wear them , ' when they are bestowed witho ' utsoIicitaticiB ? though it is a proof of independence of mind and of Christian simplicity , to refuse the proffered tinsel trappings , the ga . ijidy livery * , of the schools- Th

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    506- Rcvieiv—Iiinfs on Rtumig ^ lical Breaching *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/32/