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To the Editor , of the Mpntfil y Repository .
sir , London , May 10 , 1808 . Amidst the encroachments of pseudo-orthodoxy on every side , it is pleasant to perceive that the republic of letters is as yet
tolerably free from its irruptions . This is a perpetual topic of lamentation to the orthodox , one * of whom lias proclaimed the majority of those who , in this country , pursue literature as a profession to be
unbelievers , —that is , unbelievers in John Calvin ' s peculiarities ; and another f has gone about to explain ( admitting the fact ) why " Evangelical Religion' * ( Calvinism ) is disagreeable to 6 men
of taste . ' The fact and the outcry upon it are honourable to literature . The study of letters paved the way for the Reformation the general diffusion of
knowledge promises to accomplish , though gradually and silently , further theological improvements . Scarcely a year passes but learn * - ing and science pay some tribute to rational religion . The literati and men of science are seldom
found in the ranks of high churchmen or methodists . It is a rare spectacle for oue that cultivates ( he Belle * s Lettres , for instance , to be found studying at the tabernacle . 1
But I wish to advert particularly to the circumstance of our periodical works , such as maga-
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zines , reviews and encyclopedias f being chiefly under the direction of gentlemen of liberal theological principles * The latter works have , I am proud to observe , abounded
of late , so as to rank amongst our most popular literary productions ; and all these repositories of general knowledge that have come under my notice , are
extremely rational in their morals and theology * The religious articles in Dr . Rees * s Cyclopedia , are among the best parts of that excellent work . I would refer the
reader especially , to some masterly general observations on biblical criticism , under the word Accommodation . Dr . Gregory ' s Dictionary , of which X speak only from conjecture , cannot contain any thing unworthy of a friend of WakefielcTs . From
Mr . Goods Pantologia , we may expect the same manly sense and liberal sacred erudition that is displayed in the life of Geddes . Even Mr . Brewster ' s work * which
professes , no doubt , ad captandum vulgusy rigid orthodoxy An religion and politics , is said to be in good hands . And Mr . Nicholson ' s breathes throughout a philosophical spirits
While I pay this compliment to Mr . Nicholson ' s " New British Encyclopedia / ' I wish to point out two errors which have come in my
* See Hall's sermon on modern infidelity , t Sec Essays by John Foster , t Some readers will understand my allusion .-. It is truly pleasant to see " Saul among the propnets , ' *—to hear a quondam minuter of Jacobinism ( as it was thcri called ; eulogizing the best of Kings at a Royal Institution a once zealous teacher of rational religion , sighing amongst the disciples o £ George WhitfickU
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tt - "THEOLOGICAL EBRORS - IN NICHOLSON ' S " NEW BRITISH ENCYCLOPEDIA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/7/
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