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    exacted in this memoir ; but have been led into this detail because charges against him , as a writer , so serious and supposed to stand on such high nnd respectable literary authorities , could not be fairly passed unexamined . To return to the order of our author ' s

    publications . Jn 1764 , Mr . IJurd found another occasion of shewing his attachment to his great friend , now advanced to the see of Gloucester . Mr . John Wesley ; , with Mr . Whit field had for several years been famous in the religious world . They published journals

    of their progresses , containing too many extravagant pa ^ sasz . es , justly censurable , and which could not be overlooked by the more regular clergy . The attack on these extravagances was ably commenced in 1754 , by " The Enthusiasm of Methodists and

    Papists compared / ' a work attributed to bishop Lav ing ton . " .. The bishop of Gloucester , " also , as we are told by his biographer , " had watched Mr- John Wesley ' s motions with care for some years , and now thought himself able to give a fair and full account of them to the public , from the materials in that ail venturer ' s own journals' * . '' Such is the teim

    by which bishop Iiurd , when no longer a young man , could allow himself to describe a Christian minister , who had just closed a long , laborious life , and wh > , whatever woe his errors or eccentricities , had probably been as successful as any modern prelate , in ** turning many to righteousness /'

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    462 Memoirs of the late Ric 7 i . Hardy D . X ) . Bp of Worcester .

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    Bishop Warburton , in pursu ^ ance of his design , published in 176 < 2 , " The Doctrine of Grace ; or , the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit , vindicated iron } the insults of Infidelity , and the abuses of Fanaticism . ' * To this

    work , however neglected at pre « - sent , immortality is promised by the bishop ' s fond biographer . For 4 t the singular merit of the composition , it will be read , " we are informed , " when - the sect that gave occasion to it is forgot ,

    ten ; or rather , . the sect will fiiuj a . sort of immortality in this dis-CoursefU" In " The Doctrine of Grace / 3 it was asserted , that some of the writers of the New Testament , " had the Greek tonguv , miraculously infused into

    them ; . . 1 his opinion so consistent with the doctrine of a pie * nary inspiration of the scriptures , has not , we believe , been general ! } ' received among the orthodox . It was controverted by Dr Thomas Leland , . the learned

    translator of Demosthenes , and ljiogiapher of Philip of Macedon , in his " Dissertation on the principles of human . eloquence /* There presently appeared an anorrymous letter tq £ ) r . Leland , in defence of i < m the bishop of

    Gloucester ' s idea of the nature and character of an inspired Ianguage . '' This pamphlet exhibits the same contemptuous spirit § which the seventh dissertation had displayed niiie years before , and is also justly attributed tq Mr . Hurd . It was received , with equal indifference by the learned person to whom it was addressed ,

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    * Discourses by way of general preface , Sec . p . 93 . f Ibid . \ WarLurton ' s Works , 4 to . iv . 5 ? 3 « , 5 The following may serve as a specimen in a letter from one scholar tp another . " 1 shall endeavour , with all care , to pick up the loose ends of your argument as I find them any where come up in the several chapters of your dissertation . " J ^ ettere ! &c . iu <* Tracts , " &c ., p , 339 . * : . , ' •" . ,. £

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/6/