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trays their conviction of his strength . The public mind was prepared for the controversy ; it will ' not be suffered soon to drop |; and its ultimate effect will be to
moderate on the one hand a party growing insolent from success , and to diffuse on the other just ideas of toleration in matters ot religion . This " Second Part" of the ** Hints" consists of
animadversions on the answers to the former part ; further considerations on certain Evangelical Doctrines ; a fuller exposition of the supposed design of the methodistie party to overturn the established church ;
and a detail of the proceedings and projects of various calviuistic associations . These several heads we shall advert to in their order , promising only that our judgment -on the Barrister ' s design is not altered since we reviewed the " First
Part / ' ( p . 104 . ) though the present publication is , we think , superior in point of argument and of style to the former , and loudly calls for notice from the soi-disant Evangelical denomination .
I . Dr . Hawker , whom the Barrister first and chiefly attacked , has led the van in repelling his fierce assault . His reply appears to have been couched in terms of self-complacency and affected meekness . He declines meeting his antagonist on certain
theological points , in compliment it should seem to his ignorance . He is somewhat wrathful , says our author , against Dr . Blair as a moral preacher : indeed " , our Tillotsons , Fosters and Blairs have given an unpardonable offence to the pretenders to Evangelical lights ky their zealous assertion of vir-
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tue ; not certainly , that thesfr latter mean to represent virtue a * incompatible with religion , bm that theji wish to have it const * dered as the effect , the . necessary effect of religion , though not the essence of it . This is trifling if
it be not something worse . If i $ a distinction , which when misunderstood , as it often must be ? by the ignorant multitude , of whom the Evangelical party chiefs ly consists , cannot fail of being unfriendly to genuine morality - '
The learned and judicious Paley , also comes in foy a share of abuse fvom Br . Hawker , who with effrontery , ignorance and malignity unparalleled , says , ,. " that thess are not many who have contri - buted" more to increase the mass
of moral evil , and therefore deserve fess from mankind '" ' than he . One greater enemy to mankind than even Paley might have been singled out by the erudite , liberal and philanthropic doctor ; we mean Lartlner , — -whose honour ,, growing with every year , wouldnot be complete without the hatred of uninformed ; heated fanatics . There is something so detestable in the bigotry of these
men , that we cannot much won - der at ( though we by no means approve ) the Barrister ' s eagerness-K > -abridge the toleration of them conceiving probably , according to Richard Baxter ' s notion of
Athejsts , Papists , Socinians and Ana ~ rjajprfsts , that they are not tolerable . It is charitable to hope that Dr . Hawker and his admirers never read the invaluable works
of Puley ; but they know that he has written on moral philosoph y ^ and with them what is purely moral is Anti-christian , what is philosophical is irreligious * Aftet
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• 00 Review . —Hints on EvangelicdK Preaching
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/44/
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