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    laer be can only oppose an unqualified denial , challenging the reverend gentleman , to produce his proof * or to submit to the disgrace of having advanced an accusation which , he was unable to

    substantiate . But the venerable ecclesiastic is not backward to produce proof how shamefully the reviewer has misrepresented the senti - ments of the learned prelate . In

    page 599 " mentions an ancient tract , soi-disant the epistle of Barnabas , which the bishop does not attribute to the apostle , but appeals to it as the production of some orthodox Hebrew Chiistian

    of the apostolic age . And the reverend prebendary grievously complains that though " Mr . B . does not directly charge the bishop with having attributed it to any undue authority , yet the manner in wJiich he labours to set aside

    its evidence , must lead the unthinking multitude , who have never looked into the bishop ' s tracts , to imagine that he considers it qs the work of an inspired apostle . ' Now , Sir , what is it that Mr . B . has said , which can possibly de

    lead t ^ e unthinking multitu to conclude that the bishop considered that notable epistle as the work of an inspired apostle f The following are his very words , ex * tracted , you will hardly believe it , from the prebendary ' s own book ,

    p . 600 , the page immediately following that in which the charge is brought . ' < The epistle of Barnabas , " says Mr . B . which , though lt is admitted not to have been

    wnttcn fiy t $ e compftf&Qfr of St . 2 ** 1 * ., th £ learned . writer coa Uflds to . Jiqvjq ^ een q , production of the apq # tplj | £ . age , and addressed by a Hebrew ^ Wis * iaa tQ his Jevy > Mb . , bre ^ bvea ;; These ^< Mftf # *

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    words . And yet he is charged with insinuating that the bishop attributed this epistle to an inspired apostle . Surely , this cannot be the allegation of a sober critic .

    The reverend prebendary condescends to carp at words . The reviewer states that Dr . Priestley ' s reply sufficiently impeaches the testimony of the pseudo-Barnabas * The expression is inadvertent and inaccurate . It would have been

    better to have said , that the reply affords sufficient ground for impeaching , or that it sufficiently iwvalidates the testimony of Barnabas . A candid critic would have

    so understood it . But our literary champion triumphs mi g htily in the discovery of this verbal incprrectness . Nor is he indeed to be

    too severely censured . Since he finds that he can make nothing of arguments , who can blame him for making the most he can of words ?

    Our reverend prebendary is not however always equally successful in his verbal distinctions , and is himself occasionally chargeable with inaccurate phraseology . He accuses the calm inquirer of

    applying to Bishop Horsley such epithets as ignorant and pitiful * Tracts , p . 612 . Most certain . ly had the reviewer of the controversy applied such epithets to the learned prelate generally , he would have richly deserved the

    rebuke which the reverend prebendary so justly applies to those who call Origen a liar , viz , that < 6 he would excite against him ! self the indignation of every man of letters , > ' ! jBiit of this offence against ih ^ re ^ ui ^ ion of ai * able and a learned tniaff , life revJeWer'is conscie nee entirely accents frita . i

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    Mr . Belsharns Rqpty to the Rev . H . Horsley . 725

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/33/