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on Mr . Howard ' s theological sen - timentS } is too respectable for me to suffer his animadversions to re * main unnoticed . Before I hazarded my conjecture , unfortunate , as I now
esteem it , however fairly and evfen naturally introduced , I might have recollected a sentiment happily expressed by Dr . Johnson , in his Life of Addison * He remarks that
he begins to feel himself walking upon ashes under which thejire is not extinguished . Such a recollection would have inclined me to adopt the apostolic distinction between the lawful and
the expedient * and to omit every observation which might , by mis-Construction , have an effect so different from my intention as to excite any ** degree of indignation" among the surviving friends
of Mr * Howard , and especially in the mind of your respectable correspondent . I spoke of How * ard ^ is of any other eminent peiv foil , whose example , with all its lights and shadows , had become
the property of the world at large , without considering that he had contemporaries yet living , who looked back upon his character through the amiable , though sometimes delusive , medium of
personal friendship . Thus I account for the conduct of your correspondent . Having , as 1 hope to convince him , erroneously supposed that the memory of his friend had been ruddy
attacked by mey he prepared u to protect his praise / ' with-an eager * ness which I cannot but respect , though it may have prevented him from giving the subject his usual consideraticfti . Otherwise , I think , kisgoodeenec and well e&tebliife-
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ed candour , both as a writer an « f a man , would not have allowed him to raise a charge so serious on a foundation sd slender . This gentleman accuses me of haying made a u severe and groundless reflection on the
religious principles" of his friend , anfl again of having * thrown out a severe sarcasm upon a man of whose benevolence I had express * ed an high idea ; ** besides an implied charge of having Xi
discovered & contempt for the Assembly ' s Catechism . " The proof to support this accusation i ^ of course , to be sought in the short passage quoted from my fortrier letter .
I am persuaded that it would not have occurred to me to say one word on a subject so comparatively unimportant as the " modes of faith' ' of Mr . Howard ,
a man whose " life * was erni * riently in the rights * had not hi $ high preference of the English , to the prejudice of the Greek , liturgy , been very strongly marked in Dr . Clarke ' s narrative . Tha
phrases copied from that liturgy , according to Dr . King , a most competent authority , were such asj I thought , no orthodox Con . formist or Non-conformist had a
right to disapprove * I was surprised when your correspondent , so well-informed respecting the Protestant Dissenters , asserted , th ^ t by them Ci no such expressions are adopted *** Xtliquttndo bo
nw dormztat , &c . This gentleman hjg ^ I dare say , long ago put away such childish things , if he ever indulged them , yet he will immediately admit , on recollection , that thousands of Protestant £ ) is » * e niers have sung , suad ar « p ^ e *
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W > # Kdigious Principle * of Mr . Hotbard .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/36/
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