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curste fyiU 3 l ^ bttng £ K ! - agafest Mi \ < Hotiik < j > riV his patroriv > f&V * akmg hnfel ifoto * h \ s hbnSe , £ n # biddihg' hif # Ood-Hsp ^ ed , ill £ virulent pampWlety sit |)|> bs ^ d % 6 h&vebeteri Wittefc Wa fclfefgym ^ ni In 1731 , Dr . Foster publisheda viable d ^ f ^ gfc of € hrris - tiatiityV * ' gfeherarlly ; and justly ajcKndwIedg ^ d y ^ s&ys Dr . - Leland , " be ati ingenious performance arid ^ wf&tefn ^ with
great de&rnefcs of thought and eitp ^ ession ^ " ft w ^ s Entitled , " The Usefulries ^ Iruth , and Excellency of the Christian Religion , defended aj ^ &itist the Objections eo rVtaib ed in n late-Book , entitled , * Christianity ar old as the ' Creation ; ^ " ; ^ Aj seccitid editTon , with the addition of a | iostscripfy foUoivid' the first impression , within the year . Thi ^ perfo ^ rnantee , v ^ hic ! i excelled ? n solidity and precision , and irt a freedom frota evety did
thing of which the opponent could take ' advantage ^ the author great honour , as worthy of th ^ snbje ^ Ji Ei en lfindatll hirhsie ! f " is said to havfe spoken of it bk ieitti 0 6 f paVticulaii ? respect . \ ¦¦ ¦¦ ' ¦¦ v > - ; ' ' ¦ ¦ -- ¦ ' ¦ ?; ; ^ - :: ] i . vfe ^ 4 ; i .. : ¦ ¦¦ In 1733 , th ^ re came from the press a Vbhimd of Dirl ¥ &&tm ' $
Sermons on divers subjects . A foreign literary journarij > oke of them in high terms , as amongst the best sermons whie ^ i England had produced , displaying piety , candour , ; and mode * ratiort ; strong reasoning , and a care to advance nothiiig "but on the incontestable principles of reason and natural interpf ^ tations of Scripture . €€ The reputation ;'' s ^ ys -the fw ri ^ ^ " which the Preacher has acquired ^ and whicb aitratiffs ^ crowded auditory from all parties , has lost nothing by the ^ ub i lication of the sermons : solid excellence and tedA beauties are independent of the graces of delivery */* A late cielebrated writer , not partial to divines , or even to Christianity , ' speaks of Foster ' s sermons as cc always moderate and judicious / ' and on the perusal of the article we have quoted , he say ^ : " I have finished the 16 th Volume of the Bibliotheque Raisonnee : it
contains Foster ' s Sermons . Wonderful 1 a divine preferring reason to faith , and more afraid of vice than heresy f 1 "; , . One of these sermons , on the subject of heresy , drew on the author the aiunjadversiou ^ pfDrv Henry Stebbjng , aGh ^ plfiin in Grdinaliry to hisMajesty > and Preacher to tl ) e JHqb , . Society of Gray ' s Inn , * and gave occasion to a coutrpvpvsy . whi f hi extended through several publications that excited mucboajtention ; the titled of which were . 1 * .. " , A Letter to-: Miv ifrmia ^ on
thu Subject x > f Here « ^ it 735 ; * . & * , ^^ Ap AT ^ swef , j : ^ ^) ^ ^ tthbing ' s ^ ettw 011 4 h 5 Subjec t 0 f , Heresy ;; w ^ ai ^ t t ^ tp the Doctor ; by . J ^ me ^ , poster , V 73 ( 5 ? 'V 3 . iC A seporijd ^ etter to Mr , Fflj ^ ter on the Su \> j ^ ci of rHp ^ sy 3 ( ir ^ A , pj& ^ y . p . r . t , O ( Jiis First ; by ** * i « : Rif « bWi -AhkBtc / aim . ^^ kr ^ i ^ 6 i ^ 4 ^ ^^ . > lk '/ J j ^ t Gibbon ' s Life . VoL II , pp . 107 , % 4 % >
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Memoirs&fBr . JamesFester . "" 59
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/3/
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