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Another notable argument in favour of revelation is , ** That its principles are cherished also in the system of the law . Tins appears by the respect shewn to these principles in our Inns of Court , and their intimate
connexion with the practice of the law itself . From the sovereignty to the lowest office , all is built Upon religion . " Bravo ! Fiction , chicanery and perjury , are evidences of the truth , attestations to the excellence of religion . But the best arguments are to come . They are , reader , iL the
memory of the Christian Judge , Lord Kenyon , " and " the last moments of Mr . Pitt himself /' which , savs the author , " present
us with all the resignation and dignity kA a true believer , and are with us instead of many arguments !! " What if Kenyon were covetous , profane and brutal , and Pirt were an habitual drunkard
and a duellist , they promoted and flattered Churchmen ; and the Church , we know , has power to forgive sins and is the keeper of the keys of heaven . Lords Howick and Erskine will never be cited after their decease , unless they should come into power again before they die , as witnesses to the reality of vital religion ! In a note , the author gives " on Authority / 1 an account of Mr . Pitt ' s iast raoments . We shall extract U , stating only beforehand , that the picture of the late prime minister ' s death-bed which was circulated among the distant crowd ,
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the profanumvvFguSf was somewhat different . In that he is represented as . having been for some days previous to his decease in a state of insensibility , from which he was with difficulty roused at intervals-/
• It further describes the dignitary who attended him as offering upon the approach of death to administer to him the alUatoning sacrament . The answer ascribed
to the dying statesmen is memor * able : — " P— n you know as well as I do that in my situation that ceremony would be of n © avail . " - We have no hish
authorities to vouch for our statement ) but we think \ t contains more in * ternal probability than Mr . Hutton ' s which we now lay before the reader . " Mr . Pitt died in Jan . 1806 , having been attended at his death
by his venerable friend who had also been his tutor , the Bishop of Lincoln . He heard with fort 5 « tude of the approaching crisis ^ and expressed ^ in the strongest terms , his sense of the truths of revealed religion—of his own unworthiness—and of his reliance
on the mer its of Christ . He declared that he died in peace with all mankind . This great man ' * hates were all public ones . He had no personal animosity . Jam able to assure the reader > from authorit y ^ of the truth of thi& note ? p . 139 .
A numerous list of subscribers prefixed to this volume , shews that the author has been very assiduous in courting patronage , or that he is highly deserving of it .
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& 0 G Hevicw—Hont Ecclesiastics .
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Abt . Ill *—A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee , appointed hy the yearly meeting of Friendsy held in Baltimore , for promoting the Improvement and * Civilization of the Indian natives , 8 vo . pp . 47 , Pjiilli p ? and Fardon . ISftS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/42/
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