On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
shop Hallifax ' s * personal and public character , from the prelate ' s writings , from the circumstance of Dr . Milner ' s informant being anonymous * from the silence of near relations and
Official attendants , he argues effectually and satisfactorily to the conclusion , that the statement is unfounded . But the Appendix is by far the most valuable and important part of
this pamphlet ; inasmuch as we find the question of fact here disposed of in a manner perfjectly decisive . On Feb . 9 , of the present year , the Rev , B . F . Hallifax , son of the former Bishop of that name , and resident at
Batchcott , near Ludlow , addressed to Dr . Milner a letter , in which it is asked , with due respect , on what grounds the probability of the abovecited statement rests ; and in which it is declared , on the authority of
those who attended the prelate during his illness and at his death , that " no expression escaped his lips , from which it could be inferred or supposed any change had taken place in nis mind with respect to the Church of England . " By Dr . Milner this
letter was acknowledged and this inquiry was answered . The Vicar Apostolic speaks of " a certain Catholic " who had access to the Bishop in his illness , and who , it seems , was made the depositary of his avowal of a
change of faith- Unfortunately , nevertheless , " both the parties alluded to having long since quitted this world , it is not possible to bring the matter to any thing like evidence ; but / ' adds Dr . Milner , " as I spoke of the fact barely as probable , I may be allowed
to retain my opinion on the known credibility of my informants / ' With such a reply Mr . Hallifax , as we might well suppose , was not satisfied : he wrote therefore a second letter to the Vicar Apostolic , and requested to receive from him such names and dates and other circumstantial
intelligence as might serve either to verify or to disprove his former allegation . Here the correspondence of these two gentlemen ended . It is remarkable enough that in Dr . Parr ' s Letter the names Houdly and Haltifax are misspelled [ Hoadley and Halifax ] .
Untitled Article
In a postscript to €€ a Parting Word to the Rev . Richard Grier , D . D ., " &c , I > r . Milner resumes the subject : he now employs four pages in a no . tice of Dr . Parr ' s posthumous tract and of Mr . Hallifax ' s second letter — — ^ _ » ^^^ ^» ^^ ^^^ a *
^^^ that letter he most unjustifiably designates as ** a fishing letted , " and contents himself with again expressing what he Calls his probable opinion , while he studiously withholds from us any further fneans of estimating the measure of ks probability .
Under these circumstances , We must pronounce Dr . Parr ' s add Mr . HallU fax ' s victory complete , aitd must treat the statement in respect of the late Bishop of St . Asaph ' s change of religious belief as a wanton calumny . Let our readers judge for themselves , of Dr . IJtfilner ' a conduct as a disputant , a / logician and an ecclesiastic .
But we confound not the communion to which he belongs with individual members and ministers of it : we distinguish , too , between doctrines that we deem unscriptural and civil rights , that ought , in wisdom and in equity , to be without delay and without reserve extended . Cordially
do we adopt the words of the late venerable author of the posthumous Letter , and avow ourselves ( p . 35 ) unfeigned " . well-wishers to the petitions which English and Irish Roman Catholics have presented to Parliament , in order to obtain relief from certain galling restraints and insulting exclusions . " N . —
Untitled Article
748 Review . ' —Milton ' s Treatise of Christian Doctrine .
Untitled Article
w Art . Ill—A Treatise of Christian Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone * By John Milton .
( Continued from p . 692 . ) OUR object in resuming this work of Milton ' s is to lay before our readers his thoughts upon some other important subjects ; not that we adopt all his opinions , but that , being his , they are worthy of being known .
Discarding the doctrine of the Trinity , Milton gave up of course the popular notion concerning the Holy Spirit . Like some of the elder Unitarians , he believed in the personality of the Spirit , and attributed to him an exalted nature . ' * —inasmuch as he is a minister of God , and therefore a
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/44/
-