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    university . Of dny tendency to intolerance and persecution we most readily acquit the translator of Michaelis : a knind so

    enlightened capnot harbour such feelings ; and we conceive that he has reason to complain of the Critical Reviewer for wantonly bringing forward this serious accusation .

    His declaration ., however , that Cf to dissent in this country from the doctrines of the established church , is to dissent

    without a real cause , " is unnecessary , misplaced and inexpedient : - —unnecessary , because Dr . M / s attachment to the doctrines of the church of England could not with justice and candour be called in question : —misplaced , because it assumes what remains to be

    proved , and because & professor is bound to reason , and not , even in appearance , to dogmatize : — iwe # - pedien £ , because reflecting and ingenuous young jmen will be not a little prone to suspect the foundation of those articles of faith the

    truth of which is so prematurely affirmed . We could have wished that our author had refrained , in p . 15 , of the Letter , from the use of the word conventicle . On this point we transcribe a note from

    Furneaux ' s Letter to Blackstone . Dr , Priestley hath remarked a want of elegant politeness in this expres .

    sion , unworthy of a fine writer : I would observe an impropriety in it , unbecoming the great lawyer * The word conventicle , if I understand it right , means an unlawful assembly , and is therefore improperly applied , as it is here , to the legal assemblies of protestant dissenters * . "

    In the Letter , the name of the late excellent and memorable vicar of Catterick is three times misspelt within the compass of as many pages f .

    We are unfeignedly sorry that the Critical Reviewer should have made any attack upon the personal character of Dr . M . ; nor can we wonder at the anxiety of the learned and able Professor to vindicate the reputation whiclr he has long enjoyed among scholars and divines of almost every denomination . In future , we trust that his superior talents and erudition will be entirely devoted to the cause of religion , and that the honours and rewards which he

    may henceforth receive , will be given him for theological and literary , and not for political . ser . vices . It is a large debt of

    gratitude which every biblical student owes him : may we not hope that he will add to our obligations , by completing his annexations on Michaelis ' s Introduction ?

    Art . III . A Sermon delivered at the Old Meeting-House *) Waltlmrnim stow , Dec . 10 , 1809 . ; on occasion of the death of Mrs . Hannah Cooke . To which is annexed on Address delivered on her Inter " ment in Bunhill Fields , December 5 , 1809 . By E . Cogan * 8 vo . pp . 4 f * Johnson and Co . A single extract will suffice to such as are desirous of seeing the shew that this is no common dis- opinions of one , who has thoug ht course and tq recommend it to deeply , and expresses himself most

    * P . 84 , 3 d . ccL \ f Lindsay for lincUej .

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    406 Review * —Cogan ' s Funeral Sermonfor Mrs * Cooke .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/30/