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«• Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Pope .
Art . I . —A Letter to the Rev . Dr . Milner , occasioned by some Passages . contained in his Book , entitled , €€ The End of Religious Con * troversy . " By the late Rev . S . Parr , LL . D . London ; printed for Mawman . 1825 . 8 vo . pp . 60 .
Art . II . —> Dr . Milner ' s Parting jVord to Dr . Grier . With a Brief Notice of Dr . S . Parr ' s Posthumous Letter to Dr . Milner . London : printed , &c-, by Keating and Brown . 1825 . 8 vo . pp . 4 . 9 .
F ^ HE former of these pamphlets JL is edited by the late Dr . Parr ' s grandson , the Rev . John Lynes , of Elmley Lovett , near Worcester . It was originally written for the Gentleman ' s Magazine ; but " after-thoughts enlarged its dimensions , and other
reasons , unnecessary to detail , prevented its publication in that form . The design of publishing it , however , was never abandoned , and three different copies , each left more finished than the other , * demonstrate the author ' s zeal and his intentions . "
Many of our readers may be aware that Dr . Milner , in his " End of Religious Controversy , ? ' had , more than once , taken occasion to intimate , and even allege , that Bishop Hallifax died a Catholic . The statement naturally excited wonder among those who knew and valued the departed prelate .
Accordingly , the main object of Dr . Parr ' s Letter is to refute the charge : this design he has executed firmly and courteously ; and if there are any individuals whom the reasoning in his tract fails to convince , we can refer them , without anxiety or hesitation , to the documents in the Appendix .
Of Dr . Parr ' s pamphlet nearly the first twenty-seven pages are little relative to the matter in dispute . In those pages he extracts from € C the End of Religious Controversy , " a number of propositions , some of which
* It is , after all , not such as Dr . Parr himself would have laid before the world .
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are wild and monstrous , others misplaced , and most untenable . Occasionally , however , he stops to ani- » madvert upon his quotations : and we shall produce one stricture of this kind , which is eminently marked by pertinency and acuteness . Pp . 16 ,. 17 .
The Vicar Apostolic having , with much triumph , declared , that " it is an absurdity to talk of the Church or Society of Protestants , because the term Protestant expresses nothing positive , much Ie 3 s any union or association among them , " Dr . Parr submits to him the following
questions : ce Where , perhaps you will be asked by some of my brethren , lies the absurdity of talking of a church , or society of Protestants ? Where , permit me to ask you , is the contradiction either in the ideas or the terms ? If one term
Protestant distinctly £ iid unequivocally expresses one idea , the protestation of those who protest against the Catholic Church , * how does it follow that another term , be it church or society , does not as unequivocally and as distinctly
express another idea , namely , the union or association of those who thus protest among themselves ? When you , Sir , have the goodness to assist my dullness , I shall be ready to forgive your positiveness , and to applaud your sagacity . "
In three several pages of ' * tho End of Religious Controversy , " Dr . Milner has spoken of Bishop Hallifax as dying a Catholic . At first , indeed . > ( Part i . p . 77 , ) he qualifies this statement by the word probabl y * Nevertheless , he repeats it afterwards
without any modification , a practice not uncommon with some polemics , and deserving of severe reproof . With a moderation of temper and a correctness of judgment which are extremely admirable , Dr . Parr tontents himself with pointing out the utter improbability of the allegation . From
Bif See Mosheim ' s account of the term a Eccl . Hist ., [ Madame , ] IV . 73 , 74 ( ed , 1782 ) .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/43/
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