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    cloned by hope , the victims of scepticism and infidelity arc daily shipwrecked . Wishing success to your very useful and important publication ^ v I am , Sir ^ Your constant reader , A . BEREAN .

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    OBSERVATIONS ON OKE OF FOSTER ' S ESSAYS . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository \ Sir , It seems a little out of date to send Remarks upon a book which has now been published some time * But

    the fact is , that the following observations upon the last of Mr , Foster ' s Essays ^ were written upon reading that Essay soon after the appearance of the book . Since that time they have lain by unnoticed in my desk , till accidentally meeting with them the other day , it occurred to me that thfcy might possibly be of some little use if sent to your valuable Repository : you will of course exercise your own judgment- about the insertion of them . Before I make those

    few observations which it is my intention to offer , I must premise that in my opinion ^ the whole work bears evident marks of talent , and that much credit is due to the Author for the independence of his spirit , and the openness and candour of his disposition . The Essay to which I am now to refer , bears this remarkable title— On the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion . " On reading this title , my first object was to discover what is meant by iim

    Men or laste ; and 1 find that Mr . r . means persons whose feelings accord with a literary or philosophical standard . ' In other words rf Men of Taste ' means literary and philosophical men ., and consequently men of judgment , who are most capable of discerning the truth or falsehood of any proposition . Of such men , a remarkable fact then

    is here stated , that they do entertain an aversion to what is called Evangelical Religio r * * . Now , Sir , is not this a strong argument against it ? Must it not be granted that if men of literature , philosophy and judgment ,, object to Christianity in a particular form , this is , prinid facie , evidence that that form cannot be the right one ?

    * If is scarcely worth while to dispute about the right which they have to the term Kvangelical , who now generally assume it , although I certainly think that they have the least claim to it who take all their peculiar doctrines not from the Kv-dngclhtSy but from the Epistles . r iheir religion would therefore with muck ^ r ^ ater p ropriel y be called Epistolary or Epistolical religion .

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    SI 4 Observations on one of Foster ' s Essays .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/26/