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jmd'piaster of the English language . He treats-the most common topics with originality . '' If we were to jingle out owe excellence amongst so many , we ghould naaie the skill with which he detects and the Ability with which he exposes the fallacies by which Calvkiists cheat themselves in matters of religious feeling .
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Review . ~ Laym < tn $ Second Letter to Goddard . 1 Q 3
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years been so successfully assailed ttpti * with reasoning and ridicule as to raider hopeless any attempt to build an argument on ils exploded foundations . ' Whilst the Lay mat ) objects to an alliance between Church and State , he says very smartly and very truly , — ** but there is one species er mode of this alliance which I admit to be
extremely convenient to the individuals concerned , and to have been exemplified in history , I mean that close and intimate connexion which has occasionally subsisted between infidel statesmen and bigoted ecclesiastics . Had a bishopric been at the disposal of Lord Bolingrferoke , he would ( independently of personal friendship ) hare much sooner given it to Dr . Ssvift than to Dr . Clarke . " Note . P . 67 .
Dr , Goddard had quoted Mr . Hume ' s eulogium upon the English Church , as *« mitigating the genius of the ancient superstition" and ' preserving itself in a happy medium . " The Layman lays open the unmeaning verbosity of the passage , and says , in the language that becomes the ur * - fettered Christian advocate ,
" i ¦¦ a consistent Protestant will not waste a thought on any medium be * tween error and truth , and between integrity and imposture , and an honest and enlightened reformer will feel that he ha * something' else to do than merely to mitigate superstition . " P . 65 . In a Postscript the Layman inserts some reflections on the Council of
Nice , from the pen of Dr . Lardner , whom he justly characterizes as " whom divines of every sect , party and denomination regard with great and increasing deference : , Crescit , occulto velut arbor a ? ro , Fama . "
Would o . ur laymen of learning and leisure copy the example of this respectable writer , and embrace every opportunity of asserting truth and li ^ berty , the cause of Protestantism audi liberal and rational Dissent would be a certain and great gainer ..
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Art . VIh—An Essay on the Principles of Dissent : in which the Tri * e 6 round of Separation from the Established Church i % stated ajnd proved . l $ y Richard Wright , 12 mo .. , Pp . 24 . 6 rf . . . " \\ TE cannot , " says Mr- ' Wright / ? T ?? give tou < muiih for * l $$ & conscience /* Hence * lie argfufeS ihe
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Art . VII . —A Second Letter to the Rev Dr . Goddard . By A Layman . 12 mo . pp . 90 . Chichester printed : Sold by Longman and Co . London . 8 s . bds . IB 15 . fXlHE character which we gave of 8 the Layman ' s first Letter [ M .
Repos . vit . 642 , 643 , ] belongs to this Second : it is decorous , elegant and spirited . Dr . Goddard appears to have judged the Layman ' s Letter worthy of consideration , and accordingly he attempted a reply in " Sermon lately delivered at the Consecration of the
Bishop of London . " The Layman could not have "flattered himself with the hope of such a distinction . The arguments delivered ex cathedra on this notable occasion have not , however , either satisfied or silenced our author \ lie boldly investigates the learned dignitary ' s well-written passages ; and has , we think , put in an effectual claim to a more detailed
answer 4 han can be given in the florid periods of an oration before the-clecgy . The Layman had endeavoured to shew that no alliance subsists between the Churcli of England and the State 3
Dr . Goddard considers the expediency of such an alliance so ably proved [ by Bp . WarburtouJ that it is unnecessary to enter into the argument : but the Layman maintains that the alliance is impossible .
" The meaning * of the term forbids it . An alliance , suppose * a trea ty ^ and a treaty Opposes the m % tual independence of the parties who treat . To ooutend therefore f ° r an alliance between * Church and State , js to contend for a principle which would intro duce imperiurn in irnperio 9 and thus mcur the otfence called preemunire . * * P , 40 .
Of Bp . Warburton ' s book , the Alliance M , the Layman s ^ ys , ( p . 41 , ) that » t has in the course of the last fifty
. * " See BlacksfcnmV Comment . Vol ^ . p . 115 . " . ?•*<• XL « 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/41/
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