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Mr . Belsham ' s Strictures on Carpenter * s L , * eclures . 30 J >
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whatever Dr . Price might say , or however he might look > he was itr this instance most epreo-iously . mistaken . What indeed does the passage which has just been cited from the epistle to the Hebrews imply , but that our Lord gradually learned obedience , and that his character was not originally so perfect as it afterwards became . And what has Dr . Priestleysaid more ?
My friend adds , I knew a gentleman of great candour and good sense , who saiH he did not pretend to judge how far Dr . Priestley was right or . wrong in his speculative opinions , but he thought his writings h ; id produced a very unhappy effect in lessening people ' s reverence for the sacred scripture /' But if this sensible and candid gentlerpan was as ignorant of Dr . Priestley ' s sentiments as he professes to be , and as no doubt he was , his good sense and his candour would have been more apparent , if he had given no opinion upon a subject which he did not understand . They who are best acquainted with Dr . Priestley ' s writings , know that though the tendency of them may be to abate an undisceniing and superstitious veneration for what is called scripture , yet that no person in modern times set a higher value upon the
genuine writings or the prophets , apostles , and evangelists ; that no one . ever studied them with . greater attention ; that no modern critic has thrown greater light upon the doctrine of the divine oracles , and that no person ever exerted more strenuous or successful efforts to infuse into his readers , whether young or old , a rational love to the scriptures and a desire to become acquainted with their invaluable contents . The Author proceeds further to accuse Dr . Priestley of Ct an injudicious defence of the dissenters by which he injured their . cause , and of a violent attack upon the established church by which he strengthened that establishment . " As the charge is general and improved , it is needless to enter into a particular refutation of it . But most assuredly every
one is not of the same mind with mv worthy friend , with respect to the effect of Dr . Priestley's writings . They who made Dr . Horsley a bishop for defending the doctrine of the church against the attacks of Dr . Priestley , did not think the established church strengthened bv those attacks . And the numbers who are of opinion that the errors of the
established religion , and the indispensible duty of well informed Christians to secede from a corrupt establishment , have been more clearly and more forcibly evinced in the works pi' Or . Priestley than in those of any preceding writer , will
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/21/
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