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    Protestantism is the established religion of Ireland , the great body of the Irish people are , however , Catholics : in a postscript he avers that <* the scriptures lie

    m about in Catholic families , like any other books , for any one to open / ' the reading of them not being prohibited ; and he further

    says , u I neither owe the Pontiff , nor will I pay him , the homage of any external allegiance ; and though I acknowledge in him the spiritual character of chief bishop and supreme pastor of Christ ' s church , surely that is easily distinguished from the character of a sovereign , of a prince or of a civil legislator . "

    For ourselves , we see no reason to distrust these declarations ; and we should hope that Dr . Marsh will not lightly doubt what Mr . Gandolpby terms { 97 ) u the word of a clergyman . "

    We have heard of two disputants ( we think they were brothers)—the one a Catholic , the latter a Protestant—who converted each other to their respective systems . This will hardly be the effect of the present correspondence . Not

    only are the gentlemen before us traiequaily opposed , in point of knowledge and ability , but the Margaret Professor must be experimentally and practically well persuaded that as the religion of the church of Rome is not true , neither is it by law established .

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    Art . II . StrmonSy by Samuel IJorsley , LL . D . I \ R . S . JF . A . & . late Lord Bishop of St . Asaph . Vol . flf . Dundee , printed : London , sold by Longman and Co . Riv ' mgtons , &c . 1812 . 8 vo . pp . 334 .

    Our sentiments of the late Bishop Horsley as a writer and a preacher * have already been ex-

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    pressed * . There Was something in his tone and manner and general character which forced us to consider him as More like a soldier than a man o the church $

    and ingenious and elaborate as are many of the Sermons in the present volume , we discover few marks in them of sobriety , and

    still fewer of humility of mindo But we will not detain our readers from the discourses themselves . The first four ( numbered 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 . ) are from Malachi

    iii . 1 , 2 , the subject of them being The Advent cf the Messiah , We agree with the prelate in regarding this text as a prediction of the Mediator of the new

    covenant ; but we protest against two conclusions which he is eager to deduce from it ;—the one , that the deliverer whose coming is here announced , was ** the Jehovah of the Old Testament /'—the other , that the phraseology of the former of these verses , affords a

    proof of the deity of Jesu 3 Christ . Among the theological fancies of ancient or modern times , none is grosser than the notion that he was the angel of the Jewish dispensation , The author of the

    Epistle to the Hebrews , whoever he was , could not but be more accurately informed on this subject than the divines of succeeding ages . He , in the beginning of his eloquent composition , has stated an unanswered and

    unanswerable argument against the hypothesis of God ' s having spoken "to the fathers" by " his Son : * ' and it is remarkable enough that , according to Morini and Hottinger , it it characteristic of the Samaritan translation of the

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    332 Review . — -Bishop Horsley ' s Sermons .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/48/