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take more largely of the style of sermons and homilies than suits the character of a miscellaneous assembly , convened for the transaction of public business .
In one of his notes ( 138 ) Dr . Marsh adverts to the conduct of an Unitarian Vice-President of a Bible Society in the Western part of Middlesex . Now there is reason to believe that our author has not obtained a correct acquaintance with the circumstances of
the case ; and we have seen a very different account of it , in a Ma . gazine which the Professor will not suspect of being partial to Unitarians . * The fact seems to have
been that the gentleman in queg _ lion did , in his individual capacity , and in a manner and at seasons perfectly distinct from his exertions as a member and officer of the society , give away tracts in explanation and defence of the Unitarian doctrine , AH this he
had as much a right to do as the offended clergyman had to distribute Prayer Books , Church Catechisms , &cCm Whether any * and what * hand-bills were published
by him , we are ignorant . If it be true that some of the style and tenor here represented , were put into circulation , we shall not hesitate to Condemn the measure as
the expression of a zeal for God which is not according to knowledge . " We transcribe the Margaret Professor ' s Conclusion ( 141 ) , upon part of which we shall take the liberty of'offering gur Strtc ~ tures :
? One of the late numbers of the GenJletnun ' s Magazine . The matter is also noticed in the Mon , Repos . Vol . VIII . p . 350 , 351 .
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€ t I have now given an answer to every thing important in Dr . Milner ' s book ; and I hope it will be the last time , that I shall have occasion to write about the Bible Society , I have written at present for the purposeof self defence ; and I shall be grateful to the public if I have a patient hearing . I have long
since abandoned the thought of opposing the Bible Society , ^ ji en an institution is supported with alrfhe fervour of religious enthusiasm , and is aided by the weight of such powerful additional causes , an attempt to oppose it , is like attempting to oppose a torrent of burning lava , that issues from Etna or Vesuvius , Even this answer to Dr ,
Milner , in my own defence , is a work of dubious enterprize . I stand opposed , not only to Dr . Milner , and all the minor advocates of the Society ; I stand opposed to almost every periodical publication ^ from the Edinburgh Review down to the Christian Observer ; tossy nothing of the Evangelical Magazine , and the other broods of Methodism .
which are hatched at the expiration of every month , and peck by instinct at the Margaret Professor . Dr . Milner indeed has declared that I have nothing further to expect from him : and I heartily rejoice to hear it . It is the wisest resolution he can now make . A wiser resolution he might have made , —if he had resolved not to write at all . "
If f when he describes the Bible Society as supported " with all the fervour of religious enthusiasm , " Professor Marsh means no more than that its friends are
actuated by the strong impulse of religious feeling ) they plead guilty to the charge , and would be ashamed of not having their best affections awakened in such a
cause . But if he would intimate that they are hurried away by their emotions , without consulting their understandings , they reply that the accusation is neither legitimate nor decorous . Again , Why should he speak of " a torrent of burning lava , that issues from Etna or Vesuvius ? tf He will perhaps answer that he
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730 Review . —Matsh ' s Reply to the Rev . Isaac Milner .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 790, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/38/
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