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** wAere dead in their trespasses aard stos * and w&ere by nature the children of wrath , even as others . " TJie . passage in p . 6— " Satan had once the effrontery to put a if "—might equitably barter a consonant n in exchange for a supernumerary / in the following sentence , p . 4 , line 35 : " Alas , fallen
nature , with thy boasted wisdom take a reason for your dalfoess . " If we recollect right , Dr . Johnson spells dukiess with one 1 only , and defines it < c a weakness of intellect , " a popular
complaint very prevalent among theologues , and which , if Mr . Herbert be airlieted with it , entitles him to our pity and charity ; for for be it from us to ridicule natural defects . In the
following passage Mr . Herbert cuts a sorry figure—p . 8 : in " one dark cell to another , from Charybdis to Sylla * " In this exhibition Mr . Herbert appeal's better acquainted with the proper name of the Roman General than with the
orthography of Cellarius : perhaps , fear of that poisonous juice which Circe is saM to have poured into the waters where iS ^ ylla bathed , and which Dr , Lampriere would have informed
him metamorphosed her into " fright ^ fui monsters like dogs , which never ceased barking / ' scared Mr . Herbert from the use of a c , lest this
malapropos description should pass for the common domino of his own species . But leaving this accomplished " Analizer © f Greek" to settle with his compositor and printer's devil the credit of these elegant extracts , we shall take our leave of him , with the counsel
that his next twopenny bunches of texts be tied up with more attention to the nature of the " simples that have place in a compound /' We shall pass on to the answer of his learned and able opponent , the Rev \ Win . Field , who for thirty years
has been the minister of an increasing Unitarian congregation at Warwick , and-whose many excellent publications , notimhstaucliTig the professional la-Ixrairs of his , school and pulpit , are well fcn ^* W to man y of our readers . To deprive iltll congregation and Mr . Field , w&ose private and public character had hmg squired him the respect of
au classes of Ghtisfckns , of the hooourable distinction of the Christian name , was Dhelattdabte aim of Mr . Herbert . And we only lainefit that so capital , a defence , of * he principles of UnitarU
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aal&aa should have been , thrown away on so contemptible an antagonist , lest it should rather conceit Mr . Evaa Her . bert of his " dullness /* and lead him to tbink , with the fly on the wheel , " what a dust I kick up ! " We should rather have left "him to smother in the
dust of his own bigoted ignorance , certain that his poison contained its own " Antidote , " and holding , with Lord Halifax ^ that €€ a man that hath read without judgment is like a gun
charged with goose shot , let loose upoa the company ; he is only well-furnished with materials to expose himself , and mortifie those he liveth witk . " Indeed , Mr . Field ' s own contempt appears only to have yielded to the strong solicitations of some of his congregation .
c < By no inehnation of my own co « l& I have been led to take the smallest notice of what to rae seems beneath ail notice ; and it is only in compliance with the urgent request of some esteemed friends that I have been induced to at- *
tempt a reply ; which has been delayed longer than I wished , and has grown to a greater length than I intended . These friends think , that such con&dent ignorance , such conceited absurdity , such disgusting spiritual pride , and such insafr ferable religious bigotry , as are conspicuously displayed throughout this notable performance , ought to be put to that shame , and to be met with that public rebuke , which they deserve * As Mr . H / s work is dedicated to his Catvinistic friends *
so these pages are respectfully addressed to you , the members of the same religious community ; and , notwithstanding other differences of opinion , I do hope to convince even you—not , indeed , that I , in the view I take of Christian truth , am
right—but that , in the spirit , and in the whole manner of his attack upon i those who think as I do , Mr . H . is decidedly and flagrantly wrong . Let me claim your fair and impartial attention /'—* f \ 2 . The differeni ; subjects of the volume are divided into nine letters . Our
readers arc probably satiated with the beauties of Mr . Herbert ^ and we sfeall * therefore , not trouble them with any extracts from the second and third letters devoted to tfhe puntehjnent and prevention of his theological offences . The subject of the 4 tli Letter is the sincerity of Unitarians m tl * e causq of revelatioa ^ their coi $ 8 « siw $ < rffeftto # not on oath as prescribed bjr stetute law , but . given in the words > of scrip * tttro ; and a statement of tfcdrdev ^
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G 06 Re&ieu ? . —Unitarians not hifuM * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/38/
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