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    Intelligence . — Evang " elical Magazine , 223

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    on cc Evangelical Preaching , * ' as a proof of the illiteracy of the editor of the magazine in question . ( See M . Repos . vol . IH . p . 105 ) . In the number of it that appeared next after the Barrister ' s publication the error was attributed ( without however any reference to the Barrister ) to the printer . This was possible , and ± 0 the matter might very well have passed over : but a learned writer in the last number of the Evangelical M < .. raxl ; te grieved , as it would appear , that ihe editor should labour under the imputation either of ignorance or incorrectness , has conjectured , in a paper entitled ' Remarks on a Passage in Hor-ice , " that the blunder was chargeable on Horace ^ and not on the editor of the Evangelical Magazine ; that " the Roman satirist , might write Apella for

    JlpdlUs , making a slight alteration in the name , from want of sufficient knowledge of the Jew resident at Rome ; " and that 41 Apelles mentioned by Paul [ Rom . xvi . 10 . j might be the son of the Apella or Apelles mentioned by Horace . " This notable comment is ascribed to Rodillius , who lived too long ago to have invented it for the occasion ! But as all persons may not think with the writer of the classical Ci Remarks' * that all

    occasion of triumph is taken away , from the Barrister by this gloss of the " learned commentator on Horace , * ' it may not be amiss if he should entertain the readers of the Evangelical JVlagazinc y since they have become accusi . ome < J to cla-sical exclamations and dissertations—with an

    essay on Rodellius as an authority ; and should he succeed in establishing his point , the name of his favourite author may possibly be mentioned in the next edition of iVir . Dibdins " Introduction to the Classics , '* in which , long as is the list of valuable edicions of Horace ,

    JRidellii / s , the Evangelical editor and comnientiuof , is not introduced . In truth , the original misquotation excited only a smile ; but this attempt to . prove it to be no misquotation ( though the editor has acknowledged it as such !) but a happy emendation , cannot fail of laising disgust .

    We have a word on another subject ,-to say to the Evangelical Magazine ; and as we have convicted the editor of reading us , we trust , we shall not speak in vain . The Barrister ' s pamphlet comes under Review in the Evangelical Magazine for biurcb , ( the same Slo . that has given

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    rise to several of the preceding remarks ;) and , as was to be expected , the author is charged , with malice , fury , and blasphemy . But , says the reviewer , as if meaning to ex ' plain all this , " The fact is , that the author is a Socinian , and a bitter enemy to all those peculiar and . distinguishing doctrines of the Gospel , on which , not only the Church of England , but every other Protestant Church

    in the world , is founded " And again , in explanation of the * ' Hints to the Legislature , ' * he says , " That is , in plain English evangelical preachers ou ^ ht not to be licensed ; and this Socinian would rather have the toleration act infringed , by which his own fraternity are protected , than suffer the doctrines he abhors to be freely propagated . " Now , passing by the folly of

    continuing to apply the term Socinian to a glass of men who build no more upon the authority of S&cinus than of Calvin , and w ho in reality are no more Sotinians than the contributors to the ' Evangelical Magazine ; and the wretched vanity and falsehood of asserting that ' * every Protestant Church in this world" is founded on " what are falsely * called Evangelical doctrines , in others words , that there is no Unitarian Church in the world ; and the low-lived slang ( " his own

    fraternity * ' ) by which the Unitarians are denominated , who are at least as respectable men as their reviiers : passing- by these things , let us ask the editor of the Evangelical Magazine , on what ground this accuser of the Calvinists is so confidently pronounced a Socinian ? Is there a single Socinian sentiment ( exclusively suchj in his pamphlet ? ^ i he editor of the Evangelical IVIaaazine cannot point out one . Have the Socinians patronised or recommended the" Hints ? " Let the Re-view of them in this worlc ( p . 10 5 of the present vol . ) which is thought to

    express the opinion- and feelings of such as are called Socinians determine , andt which Review let it be remembered , appeared as early as that now under examination . Is it the manner of tfre Socinians to employ in their controversies , abusiveness and profaneness ; to display an ignorance of the scriptures ; or to bieathe the spirit of persecution ? Does

    the Barrister write in the language of JLardner and Priestley ? Will the Evangelical Editor answer these questions in the affirmative ? If he cannot > there is surely a glaring disingenuousnese in the Review which is sent abroad uatl $ f his sanction .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/51/