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    clusively . What the prelate says of the measure , is just in the abstract , vet has no bearing on the historian . ( 15 ) 3 / 2 . [ 326 . T . ] Nealis blamed by the annotator for not applying far severer terms to such pamphlets as Martin Mar-Prelate , &c , &c . Dr .

    Toulmin , in answer , says of War burton , " He should have adverted to our author ' s grave censure of them in chap , viii ., and have recollected that the writers on the ehurch side came not behind their adversaries in buffoonery and ridicule . These were the weapons of the age / ' **

    ( 16 ) 374 . [ 328 . T . j Here Neal ' s editor administers deserved reproof to the captious annotator . iC To act upon principle , " remarks Dr . Toulmin , " is highly virtuous and praiseworthy . It is the suport of integrity , and con-, stitutes excellence of character . Yet

    in this instance [ the case of the Brownists ] Bishop Warburton could allow himself to degrade and make a jest of it ' It is just the same / says he , * with men who act upon passion and prejudice , for the poet says truly , Obstinacy ' s ne ' er so stiff , As when ' tis in a wrong belief . ' "

    I may add , that I complain not of the sentiment itself , but of the Prelate ' s application of the sentiment . As a general observation , it is true that men of the weakest judgment are ., proportionally tenacious of their crude statements and opinions .

    ( 17 ) 880 . [ 333 . T . ] The labours of the proscribed Nonconformists , in the families which ^ ave them an asylum , had a considerable and highly beneucial influence on the next generation . TV * " i i >' eal s statement is correct : he means

    a moral and religious influence : Warburton thinks proper to understand him as speaking of a political influence ; and lie sneers accordingly . US ) 381 . [ 334 . T . ] It is asked by the Prelate , " Were the Jesuits more

    faulty in acting in defiance of the tows than the Puritans ? " He adds , " I think not . They had both the same plea , Conscience , and both the same provocation , Persecution . " J'L't us attend to the note of Dr . loul min , who says , " This is candid

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    and pertinent , as far as it applies to the religious principles of each . But certainly the spirit and views of these

    parties were very different ; the former were engaged once and again in plots against the life and government of the Queen , the loyalty of the other was , notwithstanding all their sufferings , unimpeached . "

    ( 19 ) 386 . [ 338 . T . ] I do not enter upon the questions respecting Presbytery and the . consistency of the Puritans of Elizabeth ' s reign . It is sufficient for me to observe that the laws

    of history called upon Neal to give a faithful narrative of facts ; that he has fulfilled the obligation ; and that Warburton does not here oppugn either his veracitv or his candour . Toulinin ' s

    note on the passage , may be perused with satisfaction and advantage . ( 20 ) 389 . [ 342 . TVJ Bishop Warburton places it to the account of Neal ' s spirit of party aud prejudice

    that he complains of two of Brown ' s followers having been hanged for circulating a seditious book , when Brown , the author of the book , was , on his repentance ,

    pardoned-Now Dr . Toulmin has clearly shewn that the Prelate was ignorant of the true state of the case ; inasmuch as Brown did not repent , did not renounce his principles , until seven years after he was committed to prison , from which he was released , not on his contrition , but at the intercession of the Lord Treasurer .

    ( 21 ) 405 . [ 355 . T . ] A sensible observation of Dr . Toulmin ' s , shews Warhurton to be a willing and an unjust censor . The historian relates that the ministers of Kent in their supplication to the Lords of the Council professed their reverence for the Established Church . This language the annotator considers as inconsistent

    willi calling the Established Church , an hierarchy that never obtained till the approach of Antichrist . " But , ' * remarks Neal ' s Editor , " the charge

    of inconsistency does not lie against the Kentish ministers who speak above , unless it be proved that they were the authors of the pamphlet entitled ' The Practice of Prelates . ' which contained

    the other sentiments . " I will now , for a few moments , dismiss Warburton , and entreat my readers to accompany me in an examination of a famous state-paper , of which

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    Booamination of Warlurton % &c « 515

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/3/