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In announcing to the world the publication of th $ first volume of our work , we declared ourselves ** happy in the reflection that so loner as the Monthly
Repository should be patronised by the public , there would be at least one periodical work where the rational Christian-, of whatever sect , might clear himself from
mis-represontationf and expose persecution to the hatred of the world / ' Iivconiistency , therefore , with our professions , we ^ are bound to admit the following Letter and Postscript . \ Vc . have not seen the critiques on which Mr . Nightingale ' s animadversions are founded , but from his
references , and quotations , they appear to be disgraceful to literature , and still more to religion . It is the interest of every honest man to oppose tjhe progress of this plan of anonymous defamation , which allows no one that labours
i ' or the instruction of the world , to be in safety ; which , if it proceeds , will infallibly bring periodical works into disrepute ; and which must , necessarily convert literary and theological controversies into personal qt ^ arrels . ci
Mr . Nightingale ' s Defence' * will vindicate his own character , and cxppse fhe unchristian tem-
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per and dishonest practices of his reviewers ; but he must not expect to convince * or to convert them * The learned and excellent Zk CVere , who was reproached and
calumniated by the orthodox zealots oi his day , has thus drawn their character ; and bigots and persecutors , in every age and place , have a family likeness that cannot be overlooked or mistaken :
** But 1 confess to you , I dare not promise to myself ever to satisfy entirely this sort of people ; because they are such as fancy they know every thing ; they have given over , all study ; they
examine fio thing ; and they think they should do a ^ thing unworthy of . their character , if they should confess they bad condemned any one wrongfully , anjl ! if theyabated never so ? little of the Heat of their
zeal . ) This zeal , or rather blind passiony which is niade lip ! of ebb * Icr , and animated » i > y superstition , pride and cnvy discomposes ttiepi so violently , and with so little intermission , that it is very hard
to . find a mornent wherein tl > cy are fit to hear quietly jhe justi ^ T cations of . those whom , they haVe too rashly condemned */' Editor , i ¦ *
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MR . NIGHTINGALES DEF&TShCB OF HIS " PORTRAITURE O METHODISM , " AGAINST THE METflODiST MAGAZINE AND THE ECLECTIC REVIEW . , ¦ . . * .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
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"It i « not unusual , we know , to depTeqiate the ability of any book "wftich , on «« y accowat , thf . vritic even not like ; but whatever is decried onl y l > y the vulgar sort , either of men or bov / cx , i $ not far from its TKIUM&H . Eclectic Reviewer , on the present State of thf \ Fust-India Company . . sir , London , January xoth > x 8 o 8 . Should my late publication , entitled * ' A Portraiture of Methodism / ' be
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deemed worthy of consifieratjon In the review department o ( your Repdsrtoryt at may no $ bf « riproj ) € r in hie . to t ^ lce some ' notice of two - ' imtknpea of ** ftfisrepresentation' * cihftr ^ efd upon me in the * last Methodist Magazine . They are at follow- - Jn page 416 of the « ponraittt ^ ' * I
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* Defense des Sen ^ imens qucique i ; beolpgiens dc Hpjlandc , &c
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/25/
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