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    borrows this image to illustrate a single point , to characterize the resistless force with which the Bible Society gains upon public approbation . May it not however be apprehended that numbers of bis readers will consider him as

    expressing by this language his sense of the qualities and effects of the institution ? This interpreta . tion they will the more readily put upon it , as they view the

    Society in the light—not of a desolating volcano , whose liquid fires are preceded by terror and followed by famine , but—of a majestic and fertilizing river , that adorns and blesses the countries

    through which its waters felL It is curious to mark the contempt which Dr . Marsh has for " 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 *" And , truly , for thus < 6 pecking /* they would soon be devoured by

    the object of their attack , did they not flee to a very convenient shelter , where they are safe from the hawk and from other birds of prey . The feeblest advocates of the Bible

    Society are secure under the defence afforded them by the Protestant principles , and in the use of the weapons with which they are thence supplied . So far as argument is concerned ( for invective

    must be put out of the question ) , they may triumph here over even the Margaret Professor , who , we repeat , whatever he proves or disproves , has not shewn that any member of a Protestant church

    violates his duty , or compromises his character , by joining in the * no $ t practicable measures for the tihffygion of the scriptures .

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    In the Appendix the scientific and academical readers of the Reply will find a very rich treat z Dr , Marsh employs one section of it in defending the principle on which his theorem was founded

    for determining the identity of manuscripts , against the objections of his antagonist , and in exposing the falsehood of the Dean of Carlisle ' principle of computation $ in the remaining section he points

    out Dr . Milner ' s extraordinary mistake about the meaning of Sir Isaac Newton ' s Vcra causa ; and his consequent false application of it to the hypothesis on the three first gospels . i €

    Enough and more lhan enough" of personality is visible in this pamphlet * Yet we are raw tber disposed to compliment Dr . Marsh on his forbearance when we consider the provocation he received : and we think that he is

    very properly and wisely silent respecting not a / ew passages in the Strictures . Perspicuity characterizes him as a writer—acuteness , sagacity , correctness and vigour as a reasoner ; and his argumentative style only needs a higher degree

    of relief to be singularly excellent . At present it has somewhat too dry and mathematical a form ; and it admits of being enlivened by well-timed references to other subjects * Even with this defect , it claims our commendation . The

    mind derives a literary pleasure from powerful works of controversy , independently on theintel ^ est of their topics : and there are

    paragraphs in the Margaret Pro - fessor ' s Reply which must rank among the finest specimens of thi » kind of composition . K .

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    Review * —Marsh ' s Reply to the Rev . Isaac Milne * . 7 $ X

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 791, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/39/