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critical journals bestowed upon it this just encomium : — This author writes with candor , and in a very sensible manner ; there are no marks in his Letters of that in .
temperate heat and violent party spirit , with which the writers in this controversy have , frequently , disgraced both themselves and their subject . ' * In a work of another kind an ingenious writer , at a subsequent period , spoke of this piece in these respectful terms : * The course of Letters to the late excellent Bishop of Winchester , on the subject of a Christian Institution ,
deserves the serious perusal ot every well-wisher to primitive Christianity . If the argument of this pamphlet be conclusive , there is no corruption of gospel simplicity , greater than \\ hat is there exposed ;
and of consequence , nothing can be more a duty on protestant professors than to consider impartially and renounce the error . For my own part , I have been long of the same opinion with the learned and candid writer : but his book has
pleased me tile best of any on the subject . There is a beautiful and Universal concurrence in truth ; an < l Bishop Hoadly ' s principles arc those , on which alone it will
ev H ' have honour and an happy "' fluence among meru" +. A Prelate of the present day , dwinguished by the liberality of
/ Monthly Review , for Oct . 1 75 ? . M 44 .
jj t ^ he Protestant ; or the Doctrine of ton VCrSa ^ " ^ berty asserted , in opposition . u r . Lowth ' s Representation of it , in ls celebrated letter , 1766 , p . 5 , 6 . Yk JP ; This piece was written by * fcbt Shar P > of thc Islc of
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his spirit , in a catalogue of books proper , in his opinion , to form the library of a clergyman , has assigned an honourable place to these Letters , by naming them with two other capital works on the same question . *
The principles on which Mi Foot reasons in these Letters , are excellent for their clearness and precision , for the force and evidence which they carry along with them , and for the simplicity of the application . The particular circumstance which gave
occasion to the publication of them , was this . A gentleman , who for some years had his doubts upon the subject of baptism , being disgusted with the personalities and other matters foreign to the point , in writings on both sides of this controversy , applied to a friend of Mr . Foot , the Rev . Josiah
Thompson , a baptist minister , to put into his hands a treatise , which exhibited a plain , concise view of the argument . Mr . Thompson felt pain and concern at being obliged to tell him , that amon ^ the numberless tracts that liu ^
been published on the question , he knew not one that would answer his views and wishes ; and therefore advised him to form his own judgment from the authentic accomits of this institution , with which thc writers of the New
Testament have furnished us . This suggested to the mind of Mr . Thompson , that a small trea - tise on baptism might be of use , and be read by persons who had neither time nor patience to entci into llic controversy , as it lias
* Bishop Watson ' s valuable Collection of Theological Tract * , p . 6 .
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Memoir of the Rev . William Foot . 25 j
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/3/
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