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REVIEW. ce Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame?' — Pope.
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Art . L—Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson , Bishop of Landaff ; written hy himself , &c . ( Concluded from p . 206 . *) IN a letter to Professor Findlay , of Glasgow , the Bishop advances the following criticism upon 2 Tim . iii . 16 , in which the Apostle Paul describes the character of the u sacred books '
of the Jews : " The lepcc ygoti / , [/ , a , Ta , in which Timothy had been instructed , / were these books . There was no occasion for St . Paul to tell him that these books were inspired : he knew it . But there was occasion to inform
a young * man , that , in becominga minister of the gospel ^ he would find every inspired writing , all the lepa , yp a ( A [ Aa , Ta , profitable for doctrine , &e . This appears to me to be the sense of the passage } and if it is , the K&i is an interpolation . ' "—Pp . 371 , 372 .
The omission of the koci in this verse is not without good authority . In the English version of 1549 , the passage reads , " All Scripture given by inspiration of God is profitable , " &c . On the alarm of invasion , in 1803 ,
the bishops sent up separate addresses to the King : Dr . Watson drew up one for his diocese , which expresses , in a short compass , much impassioned loyalty . Having inserted it in his Anecdotes , ( pp . 370 , 380 , ) he asks whether the treatment lie had met
with from his Majesty deserved such an address , and answers in the affirmative ; on the ground , that the errors of kings with regard to their subjects are rather to be pitied than condemned , since they have no interest in doing wrong , and are usually surrounded by men whose object it is to mislead them . The measures taken by the
govern-* Various untoward circumstances have prevented the earlier completion of this article of Review . The " Anecdotes " having been , by this time , ( as it may be presumed , ) in the hands of most of our readers , there will he the less ; necessity for copious extracts 5 and , iiidqtid , the latter part of the work is less fertile in passages which we should wish to appropriate . Rev ,
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rnent to meet the invasion , gave birth to a correspondence between the Prince of Wales and the King : copies of the letters were sent to the Bishop by the Duke of Queensberry . In a note , acknowledging the civility , the Bishop says of the Prince , as his
deliberate judgment , cc That he was a man occupied in trifles , because he had no opportunity of displaying his talents in the conduct of greatconcerns ; " and predicts , that when called to the throne , he " will support his future station in a manner which will
bring deserved credit to himself , and consequent happiness to his people . " We leave it to the historian to determine the correctness of the Bishop ' s judgment and to verify his prediction . At this period , the Bishop addressed a letter to Mr . Addington , the then
minister , the present Viscount Sidmouth , recommending the repeal of the Test Act in England , the making an adequate provision for the Catholic bishops and clergy in Ireland , an Income Tax * and the distribution of pikes amongst the yeomanry . He attended in the House of JLords and delivered
a speech , which he afterwards published , urging the same motley measures . The ministry treated him with good dinners , adopted his suggestions on finance and war , neglected and probably laughed at his liberal and pacific proposals , and finding he was
not prepared to serve in their ranks , left him to the alternative , which he had ^ rhetorically imagined in his speech , of " living upon clap-bread and water / 1 and being " shod with the wooden clogs of Westmoreland " for the rest of his life .
He preached and published , in 18 O 4 , a sermon for the Society for the Suppression of Vice , a society of doubtful merit and of which little is now heard . A hint in this sermon , he says , gave rise to the laudable institution , called the Refuge for the Destitute ,
A letter to the Duke of Grafton ( pp . 4 O 4—406 ) relates to the German treatise of divinity , by Anastasiu * Freylingtiausen , published in English ,
Review. Ce Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame?' — Pope.
REVIEW . ce Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame ?' — Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/27/
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