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. down on this illustrious character the . obloquy and calumnies of modern Injidel , and Protestant historians ** ' ( P . J 2 . ) Tliis is bad enough , but not
quite so bad aa the language of the JBvangelical Magazine . Miteer , or . M&rlin , however ,, crescit eundo . He tells Southey that "he should" have continued his narrative till the alteration of the established faith , in the
important article of non-resistance , was practically denied by its former advocate , the Ariau Puimate , Tillot--son - y till 4 the , damnable heresy * of Socinianism / as this church liad defined it , ( in the canons of the Synod
of 1640 , ) was publicly preached up by the famous Bishop Hoadley , and effectually protected by government ; till the same doctrine was taught in the Divinity Lectures of the University ( Lectures of Professor Hey , delivered at Cambridge ); and till a learned
Bishop and Professor ( Watson ) had -proclaimed , without contradiction * that the Protestant religion consists in ' speaking what you think , and thinking what you please / " And John Merlin further advises the
Laureate to exert'his means to induce ? the majority of the clergy " to believe in and openly to profess their own articles , and especially the great fundamental articles of the Unity and Trinity of the Godhead , and the Incarnation and
Death of the Second Person of it . Without this" Che adds ) " they are not Christians" —This man the Evangelical Magazine must consider as after its own heart .
It is curious to see a sturdy Roman Catholic grappling with such a nondescript multifarious believer as the Laureate . He pinches him very hard . Throughout , he speaks of the author of the ' * Book . of the Church" as a
Poet , by which he explains that he means an Inventor . He says of him" after writing D'Esperilla's ( D Esprielld ' s ) Letters in commendation of the Catholic Religion , and Wat Tyler ' s Drama , to excite popular tumults against government , he has latterly celebrated and recommended the chief
and most dangerous schismatics from the Establishment , the Wesleys , Whitefields , and their associates ; and now , in the frantic style , and with the lying * The italics are Milngr ' a or Merlin ^ .
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memorials of atiothersUch schismatic , John Fox , he r&ves through the history of many centuries , in abusing and calumniating the common source of Christianity , in order to court the
heads of the present Establishment , under pretence of vindicating it . "— . This is written according" to Ecclesiastical recipes * which Merlin has well studied : rmt f ¥ at Tyler I Is the Laureate always to hear of this love-child I
Merlin not only refers , to it , again and again , but pronounces it the finest of Southey ' s works ; and extracts , in an Appendix , no less than two pages of the most democratic passages 1 The irritable and orthodox bard will resent
this more deeply than Merlin ' s fling at his idolized church , in asking whether there be a man so blindly bigoted as to believe that any young or uniiu formed person wilL collect the Thirtynine Articles " from the mere perusal of the Bible" ? CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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$ 462 Biographical Notice of Prince Eugene .
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Biographical Notice of Prince Eugene : by Ligut .-General C . De f ^ audoncourt .
( From the Morning Chronicle . } WE have jii 8 t lost one of the greatest men who have done honour to Europe within the last century ; one of the small number of those who , when elevated to dignity and power , preserved all the mildness
of virtue in a humbler sphere , and all the simplicity of private life . He also possessed a generosity not always found among * the upper classes . —The splendour of power had not dazzled him ; and a reverse of fortune could not humble a mind which found its
greatness in its own powers . Inexorahle fate has ravished him irt the flower of his age from his family , from his friends , and from those to whom he was for many years , a cherished and adored chief . In
descending from the steps of a throne where he bad been placed by the choice of his sovereign and adoptive father , he carried with liim the respect , esteem <* nd regret of the major part of the
nation he had governed , and in a manner organized . In descending to the tomb , he has been followed by the just sorrow of all those who knew how to appreciate the eminent merit
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/14/
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