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parts of Palestine , Dr . Priest-IEY , IF HE BE SO PLEASED , JfAY SEEK THEIR SETTLEMENT . ' ' q . e . d . Whether this argument , so clear , coticise and conclusive , be borrowed from the Baconian or
Aristotelian school , it may not he easy for those who are uninitiated in the mysteries of the dialectic art , distinctly to develope . One tact is certain : it is an argument which admits of no reply .
The calm inquirer ip his review of the controversy , concludes his summary of this extraordinary process of reasoning with the following remark , p . 432 , of the truth and just ce of which fhe reader having the evidence not * be * fore him , is competent to judge .
The whole fabric ot ihis famous church of orthodox Christians at - / Elia , who abandoned at once the institutions of Moses , in order to enjny the privileges of the ^ Eijan colony , rests solely upon the testimony of Jerome , more than two hundred and fifty years
afterward , to this single fact , that in his time there weie * Hebrews who believed in Christ . * And by the learned writer ' s own frank and
liberal confession ^ all the rest is TAJ&RN ? OR f ; RANTED . " Upon this plain and undeniable statement of facte , the rpverpnd prebendary is pleased to make th £ follpwing temperate and Judicious Strictures . Tiacts , p . 68 J . 4
C The perversion of the sense of the bishop ' s words , in some part of bis disquisitions on this subject , by 3 Vir . Belsham , who represents him as taking every thi / gjor granted , because , he occasionally makes yse of that phrase , where there is no room for difference of opinion , is * Wr \ dalous 7 because it mqst have
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been wilful . It can deceive no man , however , who will take the trouble to have recourse to the bishop ' s Tracts , in order to
discover what he really took for granted ; though the humble Unitarians , who place implicit confidence in Mr . B . may take it for granted , on his report , that the editor of the works of Newton
knew nothing of the laws of rea ^ - soning , or of demonstration . " The revi-re . nrl gentleman is , much mistaken in bis judgment of the Unitarians , if he bupposes that they ^ re so humble aV to submit to be drilled into the belief of anv
articles of human device ; or into implicit subjection to ary human authority . They glory in that great Protestant principle , the right of private judgment : and in the liberty with which Christ has made them free they are determined to stand fast .
The reverend prebendary has thought fit to express bis accusa- * tion in general and sweeping terms , and > vilh great prudence he has declined to producetbe scandalous passages . Nor did he wish any of his friends to take that trouble for
him . He certainly had no desire to be confronted with his adversary . He expected no doubt ta be believed upon his sacerdotal word , But that age is past . At tin- bar of an enlightened public
the priest and the layman stand upon equal ground ; nor can the gown , nor even the mitre give currency to a faulty argument , or save gross misrepresentation from
deserved contempt . The whole of ( he case now lies before the pub * lie . | t requires no comment . The intelligent apd candid reader can * not fail to discern to which of the parties the epithet of scanddfa u *
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452 Mr . ' Belsham ' s Reply to the Rev . H . Horsley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/28/
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