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lie of his * powerful medicines , ' * he should not have forgotten , that he had previous y compared himself with
Hercules in whose arms his adversary Was * squeezed to death . ' f Now we reacfof He , cities in tfa& cradle sfcfangling serpents ,- we read of Hercules and his twelve labours ; we read of Hercules at
the court of Omphale $ but Hercules , in a course of physic , is a scene , which neither poet nor painter , before Dr . Milner , had ever attempted to describe . ** »¦ - ¦ ¦ We have taken a survey , thus far , of Dr , Marsh ' s Introduction * The body of his Reply , is divided
into two parts . Of the eight chapters which compose Parti , we deem it unnecessary to lay an analysis before <> ur readers . The reasoning there employed ( and it is eminently close and skilful ) Professor Marsh
addresses solely to churchmen , — much of it indeed exclusively to Dr . Mliner : and it proceeds so little on general principles , and is so remotely connected with any
general and important inference , that it has interested us merely as an example of very superior ingenuity and talent . We are of opinion that the authors argument directed against the Dean of
Carlisle and Mr . Simeon in the chapter which bears for its title , A < Artfulness of the Attempt to get rid of the fact by tjbe Means of Substitution , * ' is perfectl y conclusive- On the other band , he h- asnot deait q uite fafrty , we think , with those of his clerical brethren
who support the Brblfc Society , when he represents Irr £ m asjtfgtii fyiftg absolutely arid " without any qualification the non-c | istribution of the Prayer Book . All which in equity can be collected ftbm their conduct and thei ^ language is , that they regard it as their * Strictures , p . a 79 . f Ib . p . 48 *
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duty to put forth their first efforts for the ^ diffusion of the Sacred Volume . It is evident to common understandings that Bibles will be
dispersed more cheaply , and therefore more widely , by an institution which limits itself to this object than by one whose design is less simple , and wttgse spirit is less comprehensive . A ^ Churchman who patronizes the British and
foreign Society , declares by this act ( hat he considers the scriptures as the fountain of religious truth : but he neither expressly nor implicitly signifies an indifference to
the circulation of the Liturgy ; any more tjban the dissenting members of this association , signify an indifference to the circuiajtipri of their several hymns and cate - chisms *
Dr . Marsh having thus finished his general defence of the inquiry into the consequences , &c . proceeds , in the second part ; of this Reply , to defend it in reference to particular points ; aqd intermixes and subjoins remarks on various subjects connected with it .
He animadverts with a warmth not disproportioned to the occasion upon the Dean of Carlisle ' s attempt to injure his high Jifprary reputation ( 66 ) : ** It seems then , " says , he , " that my authority must be lessened , in order to invalidate my reasons . " And all that I have written is to' be ransacked for
any possible mistakes , which arc to serve as arguments from analogy , that I must be wrong on the subject of the Bib ) e Society . Jn I ^ gw amiab le a lijghi does jDr « ] V € ilner appear , when lie thus avows his design tq degrade ^ s opponent- —and how logical is the conclusion *
that an author must be , wrong m on place , if he is wrong in another f * . ' v c .. ! . *¦ ¦ u : / ' jr . ¦ ¦ . . ^ in every numerous association , some weak and rude 4 ^ 4 ignorant « found : ana w *
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788 Review . —Marshes Reply to the Rev . Isaac Milner .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 788, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/36/
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