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Sik , Oct . 27 , 1815 . r £ ^ HE following extract from the JL British Plutarch , article Lowth , may be an agreeable addition to the information communicated in your Review of Dr . Price ' s Life ( p . 506 ) .
"On Ash-Wednesday , 1779 , Bishop ILowUi preached at the Chapel Royal ; and in a note to this sermon , which was afterwards printed , he attacked some of Dr . Price ' s sentiments , concerning government . In a postscript to one of his cwn sermons Dr . Price
defended himself with great spirit ; and Mr , Hay ley , in An Elegy on the Ancient Greek 31 odel 9 which he inscribed to Bishop Lowth , introduced in the following lines , a kind of expostulation with him for having , in some degree , deserted the interests of freedom .
O Lowth ! we saw thy radiant name on hig-h , Amidst the purest lights of learning ' s sky ; And long- , if true to Freedom ' s guiding voice , Long in that splendour shall that sphere rejoice ; One passing * vapour shall dissolve away ,
And leave thy glory ' s unohstructed ray . But while on Fame ' s high precipice you ^ stand B > nobly firm } nor bend the virtuous hand , FilFd with rich sweets from Freedom" ^
flow ry mead , To pluck servility ' s oblivious weed ! High , in the Court ' s rank soil that creeper winds And oft with dark embrace the crosier binds ; While squeczM from thence the subtle prelate flings Its luscious poison in the oar of Kings .
( Brit . Plut . 4 th ed . Dublin , 1793 . ii , 837 . ) The ** passages" mentioned ( p . £ 06 ) as quoted from " tjbe learned
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prelate , ' were I apprehend taken from his Sermon in 1758 , at the Bishop ' s Visitation . Among other just sentiments it contains the following : " An opinion is not therefore false , because it contradicts received notions j but whether true or false let it be submitted to a fair examination ; truth must , in the end be , 7 gainer by it , and appear with greater
evidence . " This sermon was reprinte d about thirty years ago , and largely circulated by the friends of free inquiry , civi ] and religious . OTIOSUS .
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694 Bp . Lowth and Dr . Price . —Gift of Tongues .
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his own sentiments , as the means of coming at the knowledge of * the middle scheme' and * the oSd school , ' so much talked of and praised by some people . What would Mr . Berriugton say of Mr . Evans's ' old school 1 ? And as to * the middle scheme , ' it has
Sometimes occurred to me to inquire what is the middle path between truth and error ? I am A Young Scholar and no Middle-Man .
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Sir , Get . 18 , 1815 . F 1 F 1 HE correspondent from Lynn JL respectfully thanks Mr . Belsham for his explanatory thoughts on the
Gift of Tongues , which have appeared at page 556 of your last number . They are for the most part sufficiently explicit \ asid they also seem more orthodox than many of the thoughts that have been sometimes entertained
and promulgated by that gentleman . They have not , however , entirely satisfied your present correspondent , or removed from his mind the doubts and difficulties which used previously
to present themselves . Not that he ever questioned the existence , in the apostolic age , of what' is called the Gift of Tongues ; but he has often felt himself unable to conceive what
it precisely meant , or how to give of it a proper and adequate definition . Supposing with Mr . B , that it consisted in " a power miraculously communicated to the apostles , and to many of t ^ he first converts , of speaking various languages , which they had
never learned , " still it would seem very odd * that no notice is taken of their ever availing themselves of that miraculous power , in countries whose languages were to them unknown . —" And it would seem no less odd , when
this communication , or gift , caused so much amazement , and appeared so unaccountable to the multitude , on the day of Pentecost , that Peter should refer them to a certain ancient prophecy , as then fulfilling , and as sufficient to unravel the whole mystery ;
which prophecy , at the same e , does not apparently contain the least hint ,, or intimation , of any thing like the miraculous power for which Mr . 13 . contends , and which he thinks go
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/30/
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