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    REVIEW. ^till pleas ed to praise, yet not afraid to blame.—— Pope.

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    Art . I . A Second Letter to the Rev . Herbert Marsh , D . D . F » R . 6 . Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge ^ concerning the Opinion that the vital Principle

    of the Reformation has been lately conceded by him to the Church of Rome . By the Rev * Peter Gandofphy , Priest of the

    Catholic Church * London , printed and published for the Author , by Keating , Brown and Keating , &c . &c . 1813 . 8 vo . pp . 101 .

    When a controversy is at once voluminous and important , a retrospect of its successive stagesof the questions at issue and of the nature of the arguments severally employed , —may answer useful

    ends . The discussions , of which the Bible Society has been the occasion and the subject , are perhaps approaching their termination . However , they are too interesting and remarkable to share

    the late of the mass of the polemical effusions of the day : and men who are not indifferent to the main principles of Protestantism , will anxiously watch the progress of a dispute in which the cause of the Reformation is concerned .

    Dr . Wordsworth , the respectable editor of < c Ecclesiastical Biography , " , if we mistake not , the earliest of the Antibiblists : he laid before the publfc his apprehensions that the British and

    Foreign Bible Society would have an unfavourable influence on the state of certain long-established asso-

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    ciations for the diffusion of religious knowledge at home and abroad . It was replied , that the world furnished ample scope for the efforts of all these societies , that their several exertions would animate

    each other ' s zeal , and that it seemed impossible for the interests of a Protestant church to be endangered , or for the duty of its ministers to be compromised , by measures of which the sole view is the circulation of the Scriptures .

    Indeed , it has been fully ascertained that the associations thus referred to were insufficient for supplying even our poorer countrymen with the sacred volume . After some minor combatants .

    whose names and feats do not deserve to be recorded , had shewn themselves on the stage , the " Margaret Professor of Divinity in Cambridge , " at length , appeared . His strength was greater and his

    weapons were brighter than those of his predecessor in this conflict . To drop the figure , he was superior to Dr . Wordsworth in point of perspicuity and skill . He boldly aimed at proving that those members of the establishment act a

    hazardous and inconsistent part who join Dissenters in the distribution of the Bible , unaccompanied by

    the Prayer-book . For them to bestow the volume of heavenly truth without this explanation o f it ) was , he argued , to countenance a sort of generalized

    Protestantism , neither contained in creeds nor defined by articles : it was an improper concession to

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    Review. ^Till Pleas Ed To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame.—— Pope.

    REVIEW . ^ till pleas ed to praise , yet not afraid to blame . —— Pope .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/45/