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    Free And Candid Dl Sauisltions American ...

    Another of the "learned _prelates" was certainly Butler , author of the Analogy , who died in 1752 , bishop of Durham . I am not aware who was the third . Respecting the authors of the c 6 Free and Candid Disquisitions : " they were attributed to W _^ st and Littleton _^ in the Gent . Mag . before quoted , and in Maty ' s

    C % f _/\ iir _« _M « i I T < *• _- _!? _*» _«^ _« _t i « -m _••»* - » _»* " f _*»< - \ -r-v-v e \ vi o t » f iaiq 1 i- » _nrni r \ v \ . t ¥ _otMAAO t _* _ff f Kit €€ Journal Britannique _/ _'from an article in which it appears that those gentlemen thought proper to disavow the imputation . The anonymous authors declared that they were innocent of such a report and depended for success on the strength of their arguments and the goodness of their cause , rather than on the authority and support of illustrious names * .

    A just character of these Disquisitions , and a too sure prediction of the failure of this attempt , was given by Warburton in the following passage of a letter to Doddridge , dated June 15 , 1750 . 44 As to the Disquisitions y \ will only say , that the temper , candour , and charity with which they are wrote are very edifying and exemplary « I wish success to them as much as you can do . But I can tell you

    of certain science , that not the least alteration will be made in the ecclesiastical system * The present ministers were bred up under , and act entirely on the maxims of the last . [ Sir R _. Walpole . ] And one of the principal of his was not to stir what is at rest . He took a medicine for the stone that killed him , and on his death-bed he said , h « fell by the neglect of his own maxim . " Dod . Let . P . 208

    Such are the gleanings which I have been able to offer you towards the history of this attempt to reform the church of England : an attempt not likely soon to be repeated . The disciples of Dr . Paley _' s _accommodating system , who are supposed to abound in the church , have now discovered that happy pliancy in the English language by which words may design any convenient sense , however remote from common

    accarly patrons . This letter Dr . Gibbons in his Memoirs of Watts lias preserred and accompanied with some very proper animadversions on the conduct of bishop Porteus and Dr . Stinton , Seeker ' s _chaplains and biographers , who hurry over hi * education among the _dissenters by saying that he wa 9 a short time under •« one Mr . _Jonca . "

    * *« Lcs Ecrivains _respectables , ( Mrs . West and _Littleton , ) h qui Ton a _^ oit attribue le projet _public il y a quelque terns pour la reforme de la _XAturgie Aagli _* - canc , dont il a ete parl 6 _dana ce Journal , ont juge k propos dc le desavouer publiqucment . Les Autcurs du projet ont cm dc leui * cote devoir declarer de la meme manic re , _qu'iU n _' avoient contribu _^ en rien a . repandr _« ce bruit , et _qu'ils _avoicnt _toujouxs fondc le succ _£ b de leur enterprise s « r la force de Icurs raisons et _sur la bontc _^

    dc leur cause plutot que sur 1 _' antorkc dc _noms 6 u de suffrages _illustres . " _Joira . Britt . for Not- 1750 . iii .-346 . M . Maty carried on this Review of English litcrftture , which was published at the Hague , during the interval between th _< peace of 1749 , and the war of 1756 * He appears , b y some passages in his Journal ,, to hare been an intimate friend of _Jortin . The late Dr . Maty who _published for a few _year $ , a _«« New Review / ' chiefly of foreign literature , was hi * » O 0 _> a & 4 t _« _fkfyr Ju * i _»» tt * « _Fatrettisequittirb _^ ucLpaitsibu _^ _xquis _/*

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/26/