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basely calumniating the brightest ornaments of the churches of England and Scotland , Dr . Hawker comp lains of personal abuse : to vilify an Evangelical preacher is a broach of the ten commandments ; to slander deceased moral writers
is " doing God service . How darijicr then is the Barrister to convict the spiritual doctor of literary pilfering , of rifling " Burke ' s Letter to a Noble Lord" to furnish
missile eloquence with which to assail his opponent , of " unplumbing the dead , " ( if we may borrow from the leller alluded to ) " for bullets for the living ! '' A wilful plagiarism in literary matters is tantamount to fraudulent
dealing in real life : the frequency with which this cheat is committed by the Evangelical party * , is a lamentable proof that their religion is not so useful to society as the honour or the common
honesty of men whom they despise , accounting that for lack of grace , they will perish everlastingly . An Evangelical Preacher , ( Mr . Collyer , of Peckham , ) has put forth a counter-appeal to the legislature and the public , in answer to the Barrister ' s Hints : a .
pamphlet , says our author , "full of nauseous pedantry and sickly self-conceit . " The castigatiou whicli this writer has received jfrom his antagonist , in the work before us , will do him good , by shewing him ( in the Barrister ' s
language ) that though 44 his pompous nothings may pass muster among the old women in the republic of methodism , in the republic of letters we are not quite so amorous of absurdity . "
. * Sec tvro remarkable instances of Evangelical plagiarism exposed In thi * vrorV v © L i . p . 369 , and pp . %% lf %% ij of the present volume .
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44 Layman" has made an effort in " defence of Evangelical preaching , ' * but the * Barrister scarcely thinks him worthy of a
note . The Evangelical Magazine and the Eclectic Review , have put forch . all their strength against our author , but their strength lies in invective and abuse . In the latter
work , there is a philippic against the Barrister , purporting to be a review of his ** Hints , " which in coarseness and malignity exceeds any thing thai has issued from the press in modern times . The
Anti-Jacobin Review , ( though usuall y accounted a disgrace to English literature , ) is not to be compared to the Evangelical Eclectic , in point of personal reviling . There is indeed occasionall y a ferocity
displayed by the anonymous ca . lumniators engaged in this publication which would be alarming were not their ignorance and folly ludicrous . In the transport of their rage , says the Barrister , they tlirow away their reason .
" When some home stroke has reached their solemn souls , In vengeance they determine —to be
FOOLS . The Calvinistic party complain of the Barrister ' s intolerance , but they themselves will not tolerate any one in an inquiry into their sentiments and conduct . Good Christians , they abjure for the
sake of their religion , all meekness and patience ; and are ambi ., tious , in honour of their <* reat master , of pre-eminence and distinction , by slandering their a < slU mouthers and cursing their supu , posed enemies ! . ; ' . '
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Review . — Hints on Evangelical Preaching . 501
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/45/
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