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    REVIEW. u Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."-*~ PopE.

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    Review. U Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame."-*~ Pope.

    REVIEW . u Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " - *~ PopE .

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    A ^ t . \ . r- ^ Three betters es to the Jfen , and Rev . Francis Wrang * ham , M . At ? Archdeacon qf Clepe * land , in Reply to his Remarks on Uniiarifinism and Unitarians , eon *

    tained in fiis Chqrge to the Clergy of kis Archdeaconry . Delivered in July , 1822 , By C- Wel&eloved . Second Edition . York , printed . Sold , in London , by Longman and Co ., and by R . flunter . 1823 . 8 vo . pp . 154 ,

    € t yov ™^ ° ° y ? New Testament , with regard to the person and pre-existence of Christ , is the grand controversy of the day ; a controversy that is warmly agitated , and which Is not likely to be soon brought to a conclusion . " * This remark was submitted to the public

    in 1788 : nor is the fact which gave occasion to it , much less observable at present . We shall hereafter say a few words on the causes and probable consequences of such a state of things . Our immediate duty is to place before our readers a view of the contents of

    one among the most valuable polemical tracts with which it is our lot to be acquainted . In Jul y 1822 , " the Ven . and Rev , Francis Wrangham , " Archdeacon of Cleveland , addressed to his clergy a Charge , which has called forth these animadversions from Mr . Wellbeloved .

    Every qiinister , nor least every dignitary of the Established Church , must , in justice and candour , be supposed to exercise a cordial faith in the Articles to which he has subscribed . If

    Archdeacon Wrangh am , therefore , had contented himself with any thing like a fair vindication of his creed ; had his charge and the notes appended to it been worthy of his reputation for learning and talents ; had they

    exhibited the result of his Qwn investigations of the writings of Unitarians , stated in a truly Christian spirit , His pamphlet wo ^ l ct certainly have passed without rebuke from the gentleman who now stands forward as his censor .

    * Tliq Liic of 1 ) % . Lardner , hy JCippis , [ k lxi .

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    Mr . Wellbeloved would then have honoured him as a Christian pastor , duly watqhful over his flcKik : lie would have gladly acknowledged for hiin $ wa ^ ni $ nd sincere respect , Unbappljy for the Archdeacons credit tbe

    CUarge which hia opponent notices in these first " Three jLetters / ' is $ h& very reverse of w&fttever beconaes the character of the scholar , the gentle * - man , and the Christian : ?^ nd Mr-Wellbeioved's painful duty is publicly to accuse and to endeavour to convict

    him of unfairness , illiberahty and isisrepresentation . Pp , I- —3 , The reluctance of the writer of th § €€ Three Letters ^ to undertake this task , i § not simply personal : he apprehends ( though in the secoad edition he gladly acknowledges the failure of his apprehensions ) , that his performance will receive little attention from

    those for whose information it is pnn * cipally designed . Pp . 3— -5 . Mr . Wellbeloved reduces the subjects of his antagonist ' s Charge , Appendix and Notes , to something like methodical arrangement , and brings them , in a general view , under twa

    heads * First , what the Archdeacon of Cleveland alleges against Unitarians and their creed . Secondly , his defence of that part of the creed of the Established Church , which relates more particularly to the doctrine of

    the Trinity . Guided in his owa remarks by this leading division , our author , in the first place , endeavours to repel the accusations which the ? Archdeacon has with no sparing or lenient hand brought against Unitarian Christians . Pp . 5 , 6 .

    This dignitary seems fond of even ? the language of warfare . Before he advances to his most serious and formidable attack , he indulges in what he calls lighter shirmi&kings * He objects to the appellation / assumed by his adversaries ; the title of Unitarians

    he will . Wt allow thena to use ; nor will he § Yeu , adroit that they are a Ch # i $ tia $ ; $ eqt . Nay , Iiq asserts , after liblvop Burgess , that thesy reject the Christian , doetriaes m ovwihm * Tina is not ^ fficient . Hc . gp&aJks of Unitajrians as " gcta . Usta 9-n 4 achisnpktics ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/37/