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    in his first publication , Lett . vii . § 5 . assumes a very lofty tone . 4 t 1 take a bold step . " 4 * I tax the veracity of this Origen . " " The fact is so , "—and " J am

    supported by the authority of Mosheim . " But after having been challenged to produce his authorities , and accused of having falsified history , the learned prelate recedes from

    this high-flown language , this confidence of boasting , and in a very subdued tone , expressive of bitter mortification , he confesses , " they were Mosheim ' s assertions before

    they were mine : I added nothing but what every one must add to help out a broken story / ' Tracts , ubi supra . And instead of boasting , as the reverend prebendary does for him , of his own original researches and conclusions , all that the learned prelate now professes to do , is to clear himself

    of the imputation of " relating UPON MOSHEIM ' S AUTHORITY " WHAT MOSHEIM RELATED UPOJf no ^ e ' " and to state the principles which determined him to ABIDE BY MoSHEIm ' sACCOUNT . "

    Tracts , p . 407 . The truth is , that the learned prelate having inadvertently rested upon MosheinVs authority , where he thought himself quite safe , and having brought forward his history of the church at iElia with much

    ostentation and confidence , after having been charged with forging the facts , found it necessary in vin * dicaticn of his own character , to examine carefully into Mosheim ' s authorities , which , to his great

    dismay , he soon finds utterly incompetent to bear out his assertions . The passage from Sulpitius is admitted to be inadequate : and the reference to Epiphanius had no more relation to a church at

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    ^ Elia than a church at Canter * bury . The learned prelate being thus grievously disappointed in Moshejni ' s authorities , is constrained to look out for others .

    And having first produced a sentence from Orosius , which , though represented by the reverend prebendary as a confirmation of

    Mosheim , the bishop himself prudent " ly allows " to be a feather in the scale , " he places his finger upon a passage from Jerome , upon which he chuses to rest the main

    stress of his argument : but which was never cited for this purpose before , nor ever will be again . Of this curious passage , and of the argument founded upon it , some further notice will be taken

    in a succeeding letter . In the mean time enough has been said to vindicate the reviewer of the controversy in the Calm Inquiry , in having stated that the bishop , in his narrative of the * ' orthodox

    church at JEA \ a , " borrowed the circumstances from Mosheim , without proper acknowledgment , and to help out the story , had mixed a little from his own imagination . All this the bishop freely acknowledges , though under the idea of

    vindicating his father ' s fame , i j is contradicted by his son . But the judicious reader , w ' hatever respect he may think due to the filial piety of the prebendary , will doubtless govern his judgment by the authority of the bishop .

    The reverend prebendary takers great umbrage that the author of the Calm Inquiry should represent the bishop as ignorantly propagating a gross calumny upon the spotless character of Origen . Would he then wish to have it understood that his sainted progenitor gave currency to what he at the sauna

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    H to ' 3 & 8 Mr . Btlshams Reply to the Rev * . Horsley .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/30/