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    ftevtew , and the accidental unpopularity of his Unitarian sentiments , Dr . John Jones will be studied and admired more and more through every succeeding year of the present century , at the very least . His Illustrations of the Four Gospels , in its peculiar

    species of merit , is rivalled only by Paley ' s Horae Paulinae . Dr . Graves on the Pentateuch has attempted a similar view with considerable ability and success , but with few of those unexpected and surprising flashes of penetrating ingenuity which distinguish the other two writers . If Dr . Jones is

    occasionally too refined and imaginative , if some of his conclusions possess not the convincing weight which characterizes nearly all of Paley ' s , it i& to be ascribed to the more airy nature of his track of speculation , while the

    defect is more than sufficiently balanced and redeemed by the almost inspired light which he throws upon so many passages of Scripture . How happy is he in his comment on Luke xvi . 18 , in the communication before

    us ! Nothing prevents us from yielding the assent of full ^ conviction to his sagacious conjectures , here , as well as in many other parts of his writings * but the doubt which will force itself into our minds , whether the evangelists reported the speeches and actions of our Saviour in the exact order in

    which they were delivered and performed , and whether the original materials for the composition of the Gospels into their present state were not more fragmentary and disjointed than our critic is disposed to represent them ;—a doubt , however , which his own lucid and ingenious illustrations tend very powerfully to remove .

    Lines addressed to the Pope . Mr . Rutt cannot give us too many morceaux from his extensive and multifarious reading . Ought not this epigram to have been translated in a more compact manner ? And will not the following attempt , though inferior

    m all other qualifications , preserve in this particular the spirit of the original somewhat more than either the French or English versions of Dr . M acauley ?

    How now , oh Herod , impious foe ! A * Christ ' s approach , why tremble so ? I he giver of bright realms divine , Will scarcely stoop to crowns like thine .

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    Correspondence between an Unitarian and a Caivinist . Considering the particular point on which this correspondence turns , would it not have beea fair to entitle it as existing between an Universalist and Calvimafc ?

    I cannot see the propriety of demand * ing or implying that every Unitarian , as such , necessarily believes in the doctrine of universal salvation .

    How far would one be right in conjecturing that this correspondence is fictitious—a series of letters between some Cicero , and his friend Mark Tully ?

    Cornish Controversy . Mr . Le Grice has exhibited some specimens of candour , spirit , and talent , in this little communication , which have my ready admiration . But I think he is

    mistaken in representing it as a peculiar tc feature of the present times" that Dissenters in heart from the Church of England yield to the temptation which she herself guiltily holds out to Rartake of her ceremonies . Does not lr . Le Grice remember the marvel

    lous , the astounding facility with which hundreds and hundreds of the clergy quietly shut their mouths in the beginning of William and Mary ' s reign , rather than resign ' * the monopoly of good things" ? Have not the ecclesiastical maxims of England at

    all times , and in the successive triumphs of several different parties , driven numbers to ** put a bridle on their consciences and lips" ? " Look at the Non-Juror , " he says , " at the beginning of the last century . " To be sure , there were some Non-Jurors

    at that time ; but perhaps too few ; certainly not enough to characterize it as a very disinterested age in contrast with the present , in which Mr . Le G . himself finds occasion reverently to apostrophize such men as Lindsey , Disney , and Wakefield , and passes a deserved eulogium on their numerous

    existing followers . Does this gentleman , in the great simplicity of his heart , suppose that every one who complied with the oaths in the beginning of the last century was a conscientious churchman , who would have made any sacrifice rather than sign the Solemn League and Covenant under a Presbyterian Government ? Berates on the proposed American Quaker Creed . 1 hope this writer

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    Critical Sj / nop&i * of the Monthly Repository fur June , 1824 . 325

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/5/