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ncvolent : he conceives the evan * < rel \ ca \ system to be ** anti-moral-, *' and , as such , honestly , though sometimes in temperately , denounces it to the public . lie exposes many «' evangelical- ' * extravagances and fooleries , and from hi in the
party may learn how their language and conduct are interpreted by sensible / men -of the world . In this point of view , the " - Hints " will do good . Several answers to
this wo : k are in the press , and we trust that the vaunting teachers who have been chastized by this jinoriymous lawyer , will be able
in their replies to reconcile " evangelical re { igion " with Christianity , and especially with Christian morality . They will , we expect , be hereafter more guarded in tneir
language , and more modest in their deportment . Of late they have not , certainly , ' carried themselves meekly . The tenets against which the Barrister inveighs arc , the total depravity ol'human nature , and the jhefficacy of good works to . procure salvation . These are collected from the writings ot * Jfo hi ^ Bunyan , ' i ' oplady , Dr . Hawker , llowlajid Hill , A * e . ike * The quotatipris are not always candidly or fairly interpreted , but some of them , we
conk l ss , give t ' -o much colour to the Barrister ' s complaints , and call tor an explanation ! or rather a disavowal , on the part of the Oilvinists , whether churchmen or
distrnters . The-author is particularly , we wish wo could say unjustly , sevore upon Mr . Hinder , Editor of 'the Evangelical Magazine , and Mr . J . Clayton , jun . From Mr . Murder ' s " Village Sermons , * ' which , it appears , have come to a stvaUJt edition , soirrn
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extracts" are made , which , to say nothing of the vulgarity of the language , really seem to h ^ ve an antinomian tendency : e . £ . *' . You must de'pair of obtaining salvation by your worlds , your sorrow for sin or your ? utvrs amend ^ kt . ¦ Apd this ivtfl mfike the gospel yjelcomz ^ 9 . you . " Semi . iii . p . 25 .
' * Tnis man receiverh sinners , he cattie ctp p \ irpp $ e to sa ^ e them « , and bids you come that h ^ m ^ sav you . Think n ^ t foolishl y * firtt to mend yourselves 4 nd then come to him ; you will never be better till you do come :
Come needy , come guut ? , come Ipatlisome and bare , You can ' t come too tilthy , come just as you are . " Serm xx .
AIf , Burder ^ it seems , has published a poetical version , \ v i ^ h notes , of the Pilgrim ' s Progress . Some ludicrous passages are extracted from this work by the author ; who , if he fiiils of
proving a conspiracy amongst evangelical writers against morality , certainly convicts them of the grossest outrage upon all priuciples of taste . As Editor of the Evangelical Magazine ., Mr . Burder is ridiculed by this unmerciful censdr
for . an-egregious misquotation , in a late number oi' that work , of a line t ' voin Horace ; viz .
« ,, llt ... , . Credat Juclasus ApelJ ^ . ' * J _ . ib . \ . S ^ t . 5 . J . iqo .
The Evangelical Magazirie reads Apcllcs ^ as if the poet in-Tended the ' " InimortJil Painter . " But the Barrister may ppvv pro - bably acknowledge that this might ) be an terror of the press—since his own printer actually gives in ir his very place , the nonsensical ivortt *} + Judtas . ' ^ We should not have noticed this curious cor rectum of n curious blunder * but that the
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JFJtfve € H > . — On the Nature and E $ eet < & of Evangelical Preaching . 105
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/49/
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