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the' rfeMotis why he would cheerfully unite with Dissenters in a society the sole object of which should be th ^ circulation of the Scripturesii > foreign countries ; ' We learn that the 4 < Inquiry , & 6 /*
made its appearance on Monday , January 27 th , at four o ' clock P . M . and that the same evening Dr . Clarke ' s reply was finished , and the next morning was delivered to the printer .
He complains , in a note to the advertisement , of } iis name having been used without his permission by the Margaret Professor . In the advertisement itself he states facts and enters into reason
ings which shew that the members of the imagined rival societies , may with perfect consistency support both : and he informs his readers that having < 4 fashioned his toEPLY as nearly as he could to suit the complexion of the « inquiry / it was necessary to blazon the pages in a similar manner with capital letters and JT / tflics * otherwise an insignificant dbservatipn might sometimes pass off unheeded / 1 ,, In the compass of thirteen pag ^ s the writer of this letter has
replied to whatever is of most consequence in the fhquity 9 either as it respects the principle and ten-< tency of the Bible S 6 ciety or any personal' differences between the Professor and himself . While he
rejprbves his opponent for his hasty conclusions' and ungenerous surmisos , for his self-complacent and selfrintfpofrtant language ;* 'and for sdiiie tfl&ccuracies of composition ,
\ f-inH&ub publication , sis int jiis Sermbn aiSt . Paul's and in hift Vacation * &c . Professor -Iff . has freely availed himstlfof these emnhatics o £ the Fi € * n . Rev ,
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he is not inattentive 16 the laws of argument : while his censures are delivered with an tiir of pleasantry and humour , they are intermixed with many examples of sound and conclusive reasoning . It is satisfactory to be informed
by Dr . Clarke that' the Premier wrote to the Margaret Professor , in acknowledgment of an application to him from that gentleman , and declared his unequivocal approbation of the new society .
As a specimen of Dr * C . ' s man . ner , we transcribe a few senten * ces from p , 9 , &c « "Professing a zeal for the Liturgy , yqu seem to disparage the Bible , urging arguments founded on its inability to > support itself . ; maintaining that when alone * it is weak , but when in company strong , ivfiere is the Protestant that
can agree with you in such opinions ? After being accustomed from , our tenderest years to regard the Bible with reverence , to open that sacred volume with mingled sentiments of awe and of gratitude , as containing all that is ne « cessary for our salvation , shall a precept
go forth to be inculcated in the minds of youth that the Bible , when aUne % if incomplete and imperfect ? Cease , I beseech you , from observations , which remind us of the «* Heresy ** we have so often sworn to renounce . Your persist * ing in them , will soon call for more powerful reprehension than mine : Voices ^ thundering out of Sion , will proclaim the independence and inviolability of the Bible . Under this persuasion , and this conviction , I have written to
you £ hut my appeal is to my country . Although 1 am well aware that every church has its Cardinal * * of all men I was least prepared to expect any thing resembling them in you . ' * Dn C . however , has not super .
seded the necessity of out noticing particular parts of the ?* Fivquiry , &c . " Oa thi * undertake iog we shalj accordingly er ^ ter ; citing the obnoxious , passages in the order in which we find them ,
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Review * - —Marsh and Clarkkdn the Bible Society * ^ t&f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/49/
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