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have plenty of that article , since he has distilled his own ; and if the bonds of iniquity are , not added , it is only because they are not within the reach of his mighty malice . "
In an Appendix to this sermon , Dr . H . employs needless pains to obviate the suspicion that Calvin ' s political tenets were virtually Jacobinical I
The attention bestowed by us on these discourses may shew that we are desirous of doing justice to the literary merits of the late Bishop of St . Asaph . Excellencies of this kind he certainly possessed . His
style , though sometimes careless or vulgar , and sometimes ludicrously stately and magisterial , claims , on the whole , our admiration : it is generally energetic , in many passages , truly elegant , in many , dignified and impressive .
It is easy to perceive that his mind was in no common degree cultivated and active ; and , whatever be our opinion of his theology , we gladly acknowledge that he at least aimed at being a scriptural and Christian preacher .
What shall we say , however , to the manner in which he quotes and explains some of the texts that he brings forward to his aid . Here he is seldom judicious and
accurate : he either falls into paradoxes or adopts trite and refuted criticisms . For example , he cites Jerem . xxiii . 6 . in behalf of what
he terms ' the true doctrine , " viz . the essential deity of Christ ; notwithstanding Dr . Blayney has evinced * that it requires a differ .
ent rendering and , by consequence , bears no testimony in favour of the popular belief . In the same manner , the phrase made , [ or born ] of a woman , " is adduced in
de-* Translation and Notes i » toco .
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monstration of the supernatural birth of Jesus ( Gal . iv . 4 . ) ; though from this interpretation it would follow , according to what we read in Job xiv . 1 . [ the former clause ] that all mankind are miraculously born I & , 99 82 .
But the worst of the Bishop ' s feats of criticism , * are creditable in comparison of his forgetfulness of the rules of courtesy and decorum , when he speaks of persons from whom it is his fortune to
differ on paints of metaphysics , theol ° gy or ecclesiastical or civil discipline . The hypothesis , for instance , of those who maintain the materiality of the sentient principle , or rather the homogeneity of of Man and his unconscious state
between death and the resurrection , is stigmatized ( 129 ) as having 64 less coherence than the drunkard ' s dram . " Mede 9 Sykes , Farmer , &c . are sneered at ( 153 ) , not indeed by name but by direct implication , as " philosophizing believers , weak in faith and not
strong in reason / ' Even LoCke-fis in fact arraigned for speculating with freedom on u the origin of government and the authority of
sovereigns' * ( 286 , 287 ) . Hoad * ly is designated as " the republican Bishop * ' ( 299 ) . And Milton is rashly charged with the utterance of a gross falsehood for party purposes ( 332 ) #
The editors of posthumous works are far more likely to injure the reputation of authors by the " desire of withholding nothing" which ^ - t i _ in . K - ' * i ¦ * See a notable specimen of them in p . 154 .
• f It appears that the learned Seiden was one of the writers who «« presumed to treat these curious questions * ' much as Locke did afterwards . Lite * qfSeldcn and tfrher , by Dr . Aikin , pp . 170 , i 8 o #
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Review . ' - —Bishop Hartleys Sermons ; $% 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/53/
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