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    REVIEW. * Still pleaa'd to praise, yet not afraid to blame. — Pope.

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    Art . I . A Reply to the Strictures of the Rev . Isaa ^ Milner , £ >• Z > . Dean of Carlisle , &c By Herbert Marsh , D . D . F . R . S . Margaret Professor of Divinity in Cambridge . Cambridge ^

    printed . Sold by Rivingtons , London : 1813 . 8 vo . pp . 41 . Appendix , pp . 29 . The question really at issue between Dr . Marsh and his opponents , in the controversy relating to the Bible Society , is whether it be consistent with the

    obligations of the ministers and members of a Protestant established church to join an institution which proposes to itself the exclusive object of circulating the Holy Scriptures ? This inquiry , already replied to in the

    affirmative by the Scottish clergy , some of the disputants have , nevertheless , forgotten , in their attention to those minor points of debate , and , we are sorry to add ,

    altercation into which they have been betrayed . The accusation eminently applies to Dean Milner in hisStrictures > &c : and it holds good in an inferior degree of the Margaret Professor .

    iC Nothing / * says our author ( p . 1 . ) , would have induced me to write again on that now exhausted aubject ( the Bible Society ) , if I had not been compelled by the most extraordinary piece ot controversial divinity , which ever issued from the pi ess . "

    After a sketch of his former antibiblical labours , after a bbort narrative * in the course of which

    he tells us that the Prayer Book is Ci the bulwark of the established church / ' * he states it ( 4 ) as the avowed object of Dr . Milner ' s Strictures to depreciate his opponent in the estimation of the public .

    Then follows , first , a complaint , for aught we know not unreasonable , of the period which the said Doctor selected for laying them before the world , and , next , a censure , which we are sure he richly deserves , for introducing much irrelevant matter into the

    controversy . With these charges is mixed a poignant sarcasm on the silence of the Lucasian professor from his chair : and we have afterwards a formal accusation against him for advisedly and unnecessarily bringing forward

    certain passages in the polemical history of his antagonist . Passing 61 from grave to gay , " Dr . Marsh laughs , and raises a laugh , atone chapter of the Strictures , which is entitled The Dean of Carlisle ' s Infirmities ; upon which topic h « thus comments ( 7 , 8 ) :

    * ' Now what connexion there can be between his Strictures and his infirmities , or what connexion his infirmities can have with the Bible Society , 1 am utterly at a lose to comprehend ; though . I can easily see , that if Dr . Milner ,

    instead ot " confin » ng the title of Infirmities to a single chapter , had made it the title of his whole book , it would have perfectlysuited the contents . But however consistent it may be with the elegant feelings ot Dr . Milner , to inform the pub-* See also p . 38 .

    Review. * Still Pleaa'd To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame. — Pope.

    REVIEW . * Still pleaa'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame . — Pope .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 787, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/35/