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writer is so perplexed to account , may easily be explained . by those who look back on Mr . Gibbon ' s character and life : nor is there
any necessity far regarding it as a mark of u inconsistency not uncommon to unbelief . " 1 st * Mr . Gibbon ' s censure of Dr . Priestley is contained , principally , in t * o notes * in that part of the History of The Decline ^ &c . which was published in 1 J& 8 . 2 d . In the ytar 1782 , Mr . G .
had been invited by Dr . P . to discuss the subject of the evidences of revelation . The invitation was declined : and the correspondence relating to it has been given to the world +.
3 d . This correspondence suffL ciently indicates Mr . G ' s . irritation and rancour towards Dr . P ; while it as clearly expresses the simplicity and ingenuousness of the temper of the historian of The
Corruptions , SfC . 4 th . Mr . G . although an unbeliever > was an avowed friend , nevertheless ^ of church and state : nor was he by any means an enemy to the frantic politics of the admiitistration of that day . He was desirous , moreover , of ranking amoiic ? men of fashion : and there
is a passage in his " Miscellaneous Works / ' &c . which affords additional proof that he was ready enough to join the great and little vulgar in proscribing Di \ P . as a seditious author ;} ..
5 th . It is plain from several notes in cc The Decline / ' &c . that Mr . Gibbon ' s views of moral purity and decoruin ^ were essentially different from Dr . Priestley ' s ,
Ed . 8 vo . vol . viii . 263 . x . 193 . chap xlvii . note 4 . liv . note 4 % , $ Appendix to Dr . Priestley ' s Dis < jour on £ v d . of Rev / No . iv f J Vol . i . 154 .
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who , living with constant reference to the Christian hope of inu mortality , had also a higher sense of the obligations of sincerity . 6 th . From a comparison therefore o / daU s and circumstances , I conclude that the personal offenct taken by Mr . G . at the animadversions vf Dr . P . upon his famous xvth chapter , was the source of his hostility to that eminent man against whom it does not appear that he had previously expressed himself with bitterness . v
Mrs . II . More was surel y ianarant of the abGve facts , or inattentive to them ; and had she arL verted , for a moment , to the in . fluence of Dr . P ' s religious senti . ments upon his own life - and to
the support and consolation which , in common with many excellent men , of early and later times , he derived from them in death , she would not , I presume , have pronounced those sentiments u cold
and comfortless , " even though they were not framed in the schools oi imagined and modern orthodoxy i _ _ XI ¦
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226 u Adoration" * not oJxiat / s Divine Worship .
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•—•— - j .- * . . ' Adoration" not always Divin $ Worshi p * Sir , Feb . 25 , 1811 . In The Commonwealth of Enggland , by Sir Thomas Smith , is
a passage which I send you as ca . pabte of a very useful theological application . That justly celebrated scholar and politician , who filled with reputatiou the very distinct offices of Greek Professor and Secretary of State , finished the work I have nientiorn < 1 , according to Stryp * in 1565 . He was tiien in Francti on a special
embassy from Queen Elizabeth , to invest Charles the Ninth with the order of the garter . This author 'at the close of b . i . ch . 4 . entitled , " Of the Monarctu King <* r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/34/
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