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cheated of laws ; and litigation ( pp . 41 , 42 ) is oddly applied to a defence against a criminal information . Some
of the sentences are loosely constructed : e . g . "Under the second stone from the entrance , were deposited the remains of Dr . Butler $ the lover , therefore , of profound reasoning will not fail to visit with reverence the spot consecrated by the ashes of the author of the Analogy . " There is also an air of
literary pretension about the work . The author ' s philosophy is likewise set out with occasional pomp of words . But . upon the whole , we regard the Ponderer as a respectable , well-read , benevolent companion , and think that many of our readers will thank us for bringing him and them together .
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the independence of the United State * P . 9 . w " Rowland Hill is introduced ( pp 10 , 11 ) as a distinguished Methodist a compliment is paid to his beuevo- ' lence , but a just censure is at the same time passed on his eccentricity and pulpit facetiousness , so contrary to good sense .
Wesley ' s attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church are thus spiritedl y described : " He heaps up objections , a hundred times brought forward and a hundred timei destroyed : all the crimes committed in the name of religion by Catholics he at . tributes to the Roman Church , which dig .
avows them ; he calumniates her , in charg-Lng upon her that she forbids the faithful to read the Holy Scriptures , and that she holds the principle that no faith is to be kept with heretics . Like the majority of JEnglish Protestants , he affects to confound the Court of Rome with the Church , for the sake of imputing' to this latter evils under which she groans . In short , he
pretends that Catholics ought not to be tolerated , even by Turks and Pagans . Can blind hatred go farther ?—Who would believe , if multiplied facts did not prove it , that still the very same calumnies are repeated in England , in sermons , pamphlets and magazines ! Is this ignorance or is it dishonesty ? The world will judge " Pp . 11 , 12 .
" Amongst other Methodists , the Abbe brings forward Mr . Wilberforce ; though we apprehend that he is not aware how many people of rank ( gens en place ) possess the spirit of the Tabernacle .
4 C Wilherforce , who has made himself famous hy his indefatigable zeal against the slave-trade and slavery , is one oi the disciples of Methodism , the principles of which he has defended hy liis writings : in these he establishes the doctrine af
hereditary depravity . Attacked by ThomaJ Bel sham , he has been particularly &o u F this latter article by Charles Bulkley , advocate of a very bad cause , in his Apology for Human Nature . The examp of Wilberforce bias not procured many p * tizans for Methodism amongst scholar * and people of condition ; the sect has bee " recruited from amongst the lower classes
Pp . & 1 , 32 . The American Methodists , of the New Light , unite the disgusting qualities of barbarism and fanaticism . *» comparison of their assemblies , say the author , Bedlam , Saint Luke s an « Charenton are the retreats of g ^
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1 £ 2 Review . —*» Gregoire * s Histoire des Secies Religieuses .
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Art . IV . —Histoire des Sectes Religieuses , fyc . i . e . Gregoire ' s History of Sects , fyc . ( Continuedfrom p . 109 . J The sect first described is that of
the Glassites or Sandemanians . The description is concise , candid and properly historical . In stating the fact of James Hervey ' s having written against Sandeman , in his Theron and Aspa-sia , the author adds , that he is
known in France only by his " Meditations among -the Tombs . " ( P . I . ) Sandeman , we are told , ( p . 2 ) " went to America and established some
congregations there ; one at Boston . But aa lie preached up passive obedience , this doctrine , detestable at all times , was very ill-received in a country in which liberty was on the eve of an explosion . " The next sect in the Abbe ' s
catalogue is Methodists , English and American * He appears to have informed himself at great pains , upon this subject : amongst other authorities in his report of the English Methodists , he refers to " Nichtingall" ( NightingaleJ and Lackington , the bookseller , from whose Life , he extracts many pages .
In the following remark we perceive the good sense and love of liberty which distinguish the former Bishop ofBlois : u Wesley fell into deserved discredit , as
at politician and a prophet , when , on his return to Europe , " ( from America ) " he foretold that the insurgents would he reduced * to submission , and pretended to justiiy in various pamphlets the iniquitous measure * qf the English ministry against
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/54/
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