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    i ^ d £ Tg ® ne ^ fiery onteal the several J ^* 0 ^ 0 *^ publications circulating amongst ua » Let us glance at th e *** to order , and notice their modes of treatment , which , however differed , are creditable to the illustrious

    Authors memory . The Monthly Review first proclaimed its api > earance with a plain , undisguised account of its content ^ and the Eclectic Re vie vv followed with

    rather a tu&id survey , fearing that ihjsir readers might be tainted with jtsi heterodoxy . Then came the JMonthly Repository with a bold aad ^ tended analysis , whilst the Christian Reformer , a more diminutive

    periodical , issuing from the same quarter , presented still larger portions , agreeably to the well-known lines of the poet , Say , shall my little bark attendant sail , Pursue the triumph and partake the gale ?

    Tlie Calvinistic magazines proceeded tardily to their task : one , the Congregational , taking the shortest way of confutation by pronouncing it the offspring of the author ' s

    dotage ; whilst another , the Evangelical , deemed it one of his ablest productions , guarding its readers , by monthly essays , against its pernicious tendency . The two Baptist miscellanies , Old and New , though exulting ia the author ' s avowal of Adult Baptism , joined With their Psedobapto brethren in lamentations over

    jts unsoundness , regretting that his ^ aj est y , the defender of the faith , p i not left the manuscript to slumber on the shelf , where it was found , or committed its heretical leaves to the fla mes ! At all events it was

    surged that it might have been published in the dead Latin language , in wiuch it had been written , the trans - dtor having- scattered Its deleterious Jjk redients over the religious World . ut alas ! ( thanks to tbe excess of yul boun it

    . ^ ° ty , ) has been put forth the ve rnacular tongue , with due 0 f re ancl with a commendable fidelity . these monthly miscellanies * feo n iiave done the Volume wsticcUV 0 L- xxr . 5 a

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    the Christian Maclerator , whose views are in acio ^ d ^^> ynt& ^ rtdfi i ^ h ^ e person oF Clini t > hm $ H Ucin ^ l y Repository , \ h $ acctedltecf orgati of Unitaria Q Christianity . The Mocter rafor thus expresses niibself i € t

    Notwitbstanding the intermiStili ^ e of some curious theories apd novelopinion y , Milton was a very diligent , and , on the whole , a very successful inquirer into the meaning of Sacred Scripture . The wonder is , not that he should have fallen into some

    ririfctakes * but how he was enable ^ to discover so much of the truth ut the time when his countrymen were as blind to the light of unadulterated Christianity as he was to that of the ^ un ! He -looks , among bis

    contemporaries , like one who had anticipated the progress of time by a century /' Whilst the Editor of the Monthly Repository remarks , €€ Throughout the whole work , Milton appears the grave and even Severe divine ; he does

    not once assume the politician , nor , unless the description of the angelic hierarchies be an exception , betray the poet . The Treatise is a curiosity that posterity will value ; it will be a

    lasting memorial of the mdepeadence and integrity of the author ' s lirind , and its influence will , we calculate , be seen in taking off the edge of the odium ecclesiaetiaum from what is

    called heresy . " But we must now look to the quarterly periodicals in full and stately array . The Edinburgh Review leads the van by an article of the

    first order , assigning to the work its appropriate merit , with an eloquent dissertation on Miltonic poetry . Next the Quarterly Review took it up and exhibited its contents as a work of

    genius , remote from vulgar apprehension , and hence , harmless in its heterodoxy . Lastly enme the British Critic , of high church renown , with an examination which , on the

    whole , does credit to their moderation , considering that Milton blows up the whole fabric of episcopacy . As the journal is theological , read by Churehmert and not Dis&enters , 1

    will transcribe at length Us introduction to the article , happily conceived aad expressed oi ^ the subject . In frh ; e jriean time I leave Bishop Burgess , whq deems the Treatise on Ohtteiicm Doctrine the production of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/25/