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The first of the reverend prebendary ' s accusations is founded upon nothing more than the hope , which the reviewer " expressed .
that at the beginning of the con - troversy , when the bishop had not studied the subject , and relied wholly upon Mosheim , he had ignoranttt / adopted the calumny upon Origen ' s character from that
learned , but partial writer . This the venerable prebendary works vp into a charge against the bishop as an ignorant man . i € Bishop Horsley ignorant , and Mr . B . learned I "
The second charge , viz . that the Reviewer applies the epithet pitiful to Bishop Horsley is totally destitute of foundation . It is indeed true , that the calm
inquirer , in his review of the controversy , p . 436 % represents his lordship as piteously complaining of the uncivil attempt of bis merciless adversary to enrtbarrass the
question with chronological difficulties , notwithstanding the earnest caveat which he had prudently entered against it . But the reverend prebendary ought to have understood the difference between
a p iteous complaint and a pitiful writer . It is possible however , that between his professional
enengagements in the mountains of Wales , and his present residence in the Highlands of the North , the pious ecclesiastic may have become more familiar with the Welsh and the Gaelic , than with
Ijui native tongue , some of the nicer distinctions of which may have escaped his recollection . In the present case , as the reverend gentlena ^ n has an objection to logical definitions , a familiar example rhftv perhaps suffice to refresh oiaroenibry . An Englishman , who speaks the language correctly , would say ,
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for instance , it is a piteous cause which requires misrepresentation to support it , and be is a pitiful advocate who can stoop to make use of such a mode of defence .
The reverend prebendary ' s holy indignation at the reviewer ' s blas - phendous assumption of those divine attributes which he denies to his Saviour , has been noticed in a
former letter . The delicacy of his religious feelings s ' eems to have b ^ en almost equally Hurt at the proftihe allusion which the reviewer makes to a text ih John . For
the last hypothesis , upon which the bishop builds bis church , being that the holy brethren resident at Jerusalem , without thking the trouble of a journey to PeHa , entered as colonists at iElia , only
abandoning the rit e * of Moses , that they might not be knowitas Jews , the reviewer asks how they could hope to escape detection , and particularly , whether the eyes of the Roman magistrates were holdtn so as not to know them . This alltu
sion to the words of scriptbre , the reverend prebendary is pleased to stigmatize , p . 693 , as ** a profane artifice , " and A ludicrous application of one of the pirbofs of our Lord ' s resurrection . " By the
use of scripture language thewn * tef intended no offence . But per . haps it is the first tiitie that the circumstaiicfc of the disciples not knowing our Lord when they sa # him has been alleged as a proof of his resurrection . This
discovery was reserved for th 6 ingenu . ity of the pftsbendary of St . Aadpb . This frverend gentleman having charged thfc reviewer of the cbn * trovtorsy with represehtiffg w learned prelate as an igtttffri&nt nni pitHWi * tfWr ; with * q ftil truth in * situates tfefit th « revi&Wbr aitoiates to himself the prW ^ < rf ^ P ^
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726 Mr . Behhanfs ttepty to the Rev . H . Horsley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/34/
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