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eyes of those who knew him , they mi g ht aid his reasoning as a polemical divine : and hence it became necessary to point out strongly the incor rectness of many o £ his statements and the invalidity of many of his deductions . His temper , assuredly , was highly candid . But if a man so benevolent and so catholic could , on
some occasions , speak both harshly and unjustly of any of his fellow Christians , it was still more obligatory on them to expose those errors of the judgment with which his language in reference to Unitarians appeared to be associated .
Mr . Scott has presented the public 'with an appropriate * a sensible and a serious discourse on the death of his friend and colleague . The pamphlet before us , may be read with much advantage , both by ministers and
their several congregations . A short account is given of the origin and successive pastors of the Presbyterian society at Stourbridge : and we shall be thankful if the worthy author will frame his sketch of Mr . Carpenter ' s Kfe < and character into a memoir
adapted to the biographical department of our Repository . * The text selected by Mr . Scott , is Heb . xiii . 7- " Remember those who have the rule over you , &c . tf Strong evidence , he thinks , " might be adduced to warrant the conclusion" that
the Apostle Paul was the author of this epistle . The Question , after all , is undetermined . Jrerhaps the weight of evidence , may be on the other side : perhaps Mr . S . xwfry be of this opinion , when he has f * £ onsidered the arguments of Michaetis . f
This preacher paraphrases one verse of his context as follows : Jesus Christ , the same yesterday \ to day * and for ever , " having an unchangeable Priesthood ; " and the
Christian doctrine being " immutable in it ' s nature , and of perpetual value and efficacy . ' * We regret that we cannot speak in favourable terms of the typographical execution of these pages .
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Art , V . —A Hittory of Religious P&-, secutions ., from the Apostolic Age to the Present Time ; and of the Inqui sition of Spain , Portugal and Goa . By F . B . Wright . Liverpool . 1816 . 8 vo . PP « 434 . Longman and Co . y I THE character and design of this JL publication is fully expressed in the following extract from the advertisement prefixed to it :
< l The following work is published chiefly with a view to that class of readers , who may not have either leisure or opportunity to peruse larger publications oil similar subjects . " ¦ <( To aid the cause of freedom of opinion—to promote liberality of sentiment-and conduct , and to create an
abhorrence for every species of persecution is the design of the writer . " In prosecuting this laudable design , Mr . W . has compiled from various sources , a mass of information which is well adapted to produce a powerful effect on the description of readers for whom he has laboured- This information is indeed now widely
circulated , not only in the works of those authors by whom it was originally detailed , but b y various periodical publications which in our country convey to almost the lowest clause * of society , knowledge that was formerly the exclusive possession of the rich and learned . We have no
objection to the multiplication of books of this description , for in so vast a . population , and amidst so many po ~ pular prejudices , it is probable tnat every author and Editor , ( w ill have ; access to some individuals , whose eyes would be otherwise closed to the atrocious scenes of wickedness and
inhumanity , which intolerance and religious bigotry hare exhibited . For ourselves , we have so sickened & % the recitals of the infamous brutality of holy-men , and holy-offices , that we can hardly reconcile ourselves to the re * perusal of the descriptions of the doleful prisons and infernal cruelties of the inquisition . Yet it is desirable that these horrors should be well
known to the inhabitapts of this country , at a period when one of the most striking features of Europe ' s deliverance , after an immense expenditure of blood and treasure for twenty years , is the re-establish merit of that detestable tribunal , which thkt arch- » heretic
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52 Review . —Wright on Religious Persecutions .
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• This was written by the Reviewer without knowledge of the Biographical Article inserted in the beginning of the present Number . Ed . fr Introd . &c . Vol . IV . pp . 245— £ 58 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/52/
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