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should be torn from the brow of my late revered and learned friend , Dr . Priestley , and awarded to his defeated and baffled antagonist , and that , not only in such coarse
party publications as Evangelical Magazines , Eclectic Reviews , and British Crftics , but even in the most respectable and candid of the literary journals , where a more just and discriminating judgment
might reasonably have been expected , I annexed to the first part of the ** Calm Inquiry into the Scripture Doctrine concerning the Person of Christ /* an Appendix ,
containing an impartial and detailed Review of the principal topics in controversy between Bishop Horsley and Dr . Priestley : from the perusal of which the intelligent reader would be enabled to form
a judgment on which side the victory lies : and I will presume to add , that upon this subject , in the minds of the candid and well , informed , there can be but one opinion .
This plain and distinct representation of the case has given great offence to many , who were disposed to believe , upon the authority of < he Quarterly Review , and other publications of still higher repute , that " Dr . Priestley was a giant
in controversy , till he was vanquished by a giant greater than himself . " Amongst others , it has excited the attention , and moved the indignation of the Reverend Heneage Horsley , son of the late prelate , 3 , prebendary of St . Asaph , a&d now resident at Dundee , This
seatous ecclesiastic , who amply establishes the legitimacy of his extraction by inheriting a double portion of his father ' s spirit , from fcis secluded habitation in the bleak mountains of the North , feat given
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vent to his ire against the author of the Calm Inquiry , in a style as * blustering as if he had been inspired by old Boreas himself : and in a laboured Appendix to a late republication of his father ' s Tracts *
he has endeavoured to support the tottering fabric of the learned prelate ' s theological fame : with what success will appear in the sequel . This new edition is dedicated , by permission , " to the Prince Regent , who , it appears , acceded to the reverend editor ' s petition , with his
usual benignity ; thereby affording , as the author gratefully and dutifully " acknowledges , to the church of England , at a crisis when those who hate her wrongfully ^ are many in number and mighty , the ^ high consolation , that she finds in him what she ever
found in his illustrious father , not merely a nominal , but a real defender of her faith . ' * Ah , luckless Unitarians ! They have no access to the royal ear ; they bask in no princely smiles ; they find no advocates or patrons
in courts or parliaments ; they have no glorious prospects of crosiers , mitres , palaces and thrones , to glitter before their eyes , > and to stimulate their pious zeal . —Be it so . But , if truth be their * s , they are content * They prefer truth in rags , to error in an episcopal robe .
Having therefore no hope of meeting my opponent on this van . tage ground , 1 solicit the use of a few pages in your valuable Repository , for the purpose of exposing the futility of the reverend writer ' s remarks . So futile indeed
are they , that I should have re » garded them as utterly unworthy of notice , had I not thought or the one hand , tha £ some attention w * ft d o * t *> » ton Mtotottwfng tfcw
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Mr . Behham ' s P . eply to the Rev . JET . Horsley . 17 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/25/
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