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    ¦ auje jess astonished . than grieved that the Margaret Professor has been assailed with abusive letters fx ^ jpti in ^ jyi ^ ufils of £ hjs , descriptmp » t $ ureiy , ' liis discernment and ifitDartialitv will forbid " -. him to

    identify thefn vyth the cause of V $ xjc £ ^ bey ajre ^ ffie afjvqcates : rior need . h ^ Wj appwhen ^ i ^ e ( 69 ) that he may be required to make some otfrersacrifice besides the sacrifice of fcis cfr ^ # cter . —The Panic ^ Baptists of this coijntry , we are ha £ py to learn ( 70 ) , have presented hjln with ' * a very valuable token

    of their esteem , " for the publication of his History of Scripture Translations , in which justice is rendered to the biblical labours of their missionaries at £ > erampoxe . Those missionaries merit no

    common praise for their zeal , discretion and jper § everance . ' and , observing the direction of their studies irj Indi ^ , j ) r . ^ I firsU styles that class of Protestant Dissenters to which they belong , * a very

    respectable and learned ( bp ^ y . " respectabje aftfl earned QPf l y-His chapters on Calvinism , fgrnish some acute remarks in relation to the nature and tendency of the system and the history of the controversy . Speaking of the

    popular doctrine of predestination , or jnore correctly of absolute decrees , \ ie affirms ( 84 ) , " There is no middle path . On the subject of predestination we can have no such thing as half a . Cal y , inist , or * i moderate Cafvinist . " This is a

    fair and not an unimportant inference . W ^ however ^ we see the ingenious reasonings by which it is endeavoured , on the one side , to sljew that the articles of the Church of ( England are Calvinistic , and , ori £ he other , to vindicate , them from this represeritatipn , we must suppose that ouir Professor will not

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    seriously defend clerical subscription as essential for 'preserving unity of faith ! We copy the following sentences ( 129 , 130 ) , because they describe a memorable incident in Dr .

    Marsh ' s public life , and contain information of which ) it is probable , some of our readers have not been hitherto in possession : «* When in 1798 the public opinion on the Continent ran like a torrent

    against England , afld the miseries occasioned by the war in Oermany , excited a clamour against us as the reputed authors of it ; when the journalists in the pay of France teemed with abuse of England , and they who were attached to us were afraid to defend us , I laid aside Theology to vindicate ray

    country . I stood alone against a host of adversaries , who loaded me with invec . tives , though with invectives far short of Dr . Milncr ' s . But I persevered ; and I changed the public opinion , from hatred of England to praties of England . In a work , written in the German language , I proved that we were not the authors of the war . "

    —« The Dissenters and Methodists , ' * observ . es Professor Marsh , when referring to them as members of Auxiliary Bible Societies ( 137 ) , ' * are now called annually together in county meetings , where public speeches are made , which are much better calculated to inflame

    t ) ie passions than to inform the judgment . ' * Thi $ language is unhandsome : nor has it the authority of numerous and acknowledged facts * § 9 rne oi ; fbe speeches deliverer ! $ t these meetings , are perhaps ill

    calculated " to inform the jud gment : ' some are eocarpples of a very bad fastp in compositioji ; but , with fe w exceptions , th e * have no tendency tp inflame tt } $

    angry passions . In general , thejr breathe the spirit of conciliation and good-will . A ^ any Jiave t ? e $ n « fe % ar ^ lirngn ^ tlv ^ j efo * quent and appropriate ; white others , it must be confessed ^ par

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    Rtviqtai— Marsh ' s jRep / y to the Rev . Isaac JMitner . 7 & 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 789, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/37/