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182 dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind .
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AUTHOR OF " A DISSERTATION ON THE NUMBERS OF MANKIND . " To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , In reply to the query of your correspondent ( Vol . If . p . 87 . ) I beg leave to inform him that the learned and ingenious Dr . Wallace , was the author of the" Dissertation on the Num-
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tolled , and which J . T . pronounces , ' ^ rational and sublime / ' hut which in my opinion are too wordy and too argumentative : the spirit of this prayer is so wrathful , the manner of it so outra ^ geous , the language of it so coarse , that I much question whe T ther the most fiery papist of the times could have exceeded it in his curses of the Protestants , One trembles to contemplate the nature of religious zeal , when such petitions to Almighty God ; are heard to proceed out of the mouth of the gentle , " modest Foster /'
* But as we are concerned for the purity of thy Churches ^ and the honour of the true Christian religion ^ we are bound more particularly and earnestly to pray , that thou wouldst utterly subvert the Antichristian Romish Church , which thou hast permitted ^ for ages , t 6 be an ungodly and wicked faction against the common rights of man . kind . Discredit , and bring into everlasting contempt , and detestation , all its monstrous innovations , its enormous pride and tyranny , its multitude of vain traditions , that make roid thy holy command - meats , its boundless superstitions , its trifling commutations for sin , its impious doctrines , the horrors of its inquisition for blood , by which she has been long filling up the measure of her sins , and prep ^ jv ing herself for the day of vengeance * Convert these degejstejrate savages , these enemies to humanity and mercy ^ if they still remain capable of any hind and soft impressions ; if not , confound all tkeipr devices , and speedily consume them with the spirit of thy mouth , and with the brightness of th y coming S * Vol . II . p . 387 .
I am not ignorant , that the Discourses were published in the year 1152 , and written a few years earlier ; but I know also , that charity is of , no year or season ; and judging agreeably to the requirements of Christian charity , I have no hesitation in saying , that such damnatory prayers as these , would have been unchristian , even if the Rebellion of 1745 had succeeded , and Dr . Foster had been hurried , instead of Lord Kihiiarnock , to the block .
I am , Sir , A Reformed Catholic ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/14/
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