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Evangelists would have supplied an occasion of ridicule , too favourable to have been neglected . While I formed my opinion on these apparently sufficient grounds , I was ignorant of the correspondence , preserved in the Literary Anecdotes , and had no recollection , of having ever heard the name of Prichard , nor of
Mr , Lort's judicious strictures on this subject . I also found the charge of this blunder , or rather petty fraud on the English reader of the Discourse , repeated in the eighth edition of the Remarks , published in 374 S , from the edition of 1737 , " with further
additions from the Author ' s MS . " Those may believe , who are able , that the Master of Trinity , living among scholars and divines , had never been complimented on hi * success in dislodging
the miserable Idiot Evangelists , from page 90 , of the Discourse , nor had ever learned , by ocular information , or report , during twenty-four years , between 1713 and 17 S 7 , that the Author of the Discourse had endeavoured
to cover his justly ^ merited shame , by publishing , in 1713 , an edition in which the absurd translation could not be found . Those who cannot believe so much , will probably agree with me , that the
** accuracy ofBentley , ' eulogized by " Dr . Thomas Edwards , " would have appeared to great advantage by the omission , in some later edition , of the ridicule on page 90 of the Discourse . A note , to account for such omission , would have recorded , at once , the
shame of Collins , and the fairness of the Author of the Remarks . Such , I judge , from his manner of expressing himself , would have been Dr . Lort ' s conduct , under similar circumstances . Yet let a person read the Remarks , not so much to admire the wit nnd
learning they unquestionably display , as to discover whether they defend revelation with a godly sincerity worthy of the cause , and they will scarcely expect such fairness from Dr . Bentley . tte evidently presumed on the advantage of attacking & proscribed work ,
which had ventured into the world , milder the hazard of penalties from unrighteous statutes , and which would , probabl y * be seen by few of his readers , except in the pages of an ad-Veraary . What language , indeed , can be too severe to designate the Author
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of the Remarks , who , with the magistrate on his side , is found insinuating , at every turn , a charge of Atheism * against the Author of the Discourse and his Deistieal contemporaries ? The anonymous dignitary , [ p . 684 , ] was probably not very incorrect in his estimate of Dr . Bentley . From the manner in which mv
friend Mr . Bransby accedes to the judgment of Dr . Edwards , I suspect that his more important avocations have never allowed him time to compare the Discourse and the Remarks , with the view I have mentioned . Should
he ever find leisure for such a com * parison , he will probably be inclined to doubt , whether Dr . Edwards be " a competent judge" of this question ; or whether " with too much severity , *' he has not also discovered too much
of / ' esprit du corps . My friend will , I am sure , justly Tegret the purpose to which Collins appears , too often , to apply his acuteness , and extensive information . He will detect his errors
and misrepresentations ; but he will , I apprehend , unlike " Dr . Thomas Edwards , " find something to admirt in the Discourse on Free-thinking , besides " stupidity , ignorance and blunders . "
J . T . RUTT . P . S . Mr . Lamb [ p . 686 ] will find that the fact of Warburton having been an attorney , has not been concealed by his biographers . In the Gen . Biog , Diet . 1784 , ( XII . 425 , )
it is related on the authority of " -Anecdotes of Bowyer , " that Warburton " for some years continued the employment of an attorney and solicitor , at the place of his birth / ' I once saw , in the possession of a friend , an indenture , bv which his father had
been bound an apprentice at Newark . The witness to the signature was William TYarlntrton . I have no recollection of the date . From Dr . Disney ' s Life of his Ancestor , John Disney , in Biog- JBriL ( V . £ 60 , Note , ) it does not appear that R * Disney was of the same family .
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London , Sir , December 1 O , 1818 . FELLOWSHIP Funds , of which the late Dr . Thomson was the founder , appear to the present writer to be one of the most efficacious means of promoting the caulsc of pure
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746 On Fellowship Funds .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/18/
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