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    gelical Reviewers their conduct can hardly be held in toe * great detestation , or reprobated in terms too strong . In looking through this number of the Eclectic Review , which was the first of the New Series , for July 1806 , page 524 , I found the review of an article entitled— " A Defence of the Christian Doctrine of the Society of Friends against the Charge of Socinianism , &c * by John Bevans , junr . " .

    The Reviewer , after making a stroke at the "Rev . John Evan's , author of the * Sketch of the Denominations , " for taking no notice of a letter Mr , Bevans had sent him , to correct , in a new edition , what he had stated as the opinion of the Friends

    concerning the Trinity , adds— " Mr . Bevans has also detected similar mistakes in Verax * s Appeal , which he refutes step by step , extracting at length passages from the early Friends which Veraxh&d mutilated and perverted , by leaving out , as it suited him , whole sentences or important expressions .

    " We strongly suspect that this writer , who has endeavoured to undermine the opinion and faith of the Friends in thisjdastardly manner , and who defends the cause of Hannah Barnard with so much virulence and disingenuity , to have been no less a person than the notorious Evanson . ** I thought the respectable author . of J erax s Appeal was gene *

    rally well known ; but if the ignorance of these-Reviewers was real , and not pretended—if , instead of < strongly suspecting " Mr . Evanson to have been the author , and then assuming it a * a fact , for the purpose of abusing him , they had only called at the bookseller ' s by whom the Appeal was published , though

    they might not have been told the name of the author , they would certainly have been instantly informed that it was not Mr . Evanson ; but this would not have answered the purpose of these evangelical Reviewers . f I am , Mr . Editor , authorised to assure you that Mr . Evanson was not the author oiVerax ^ s Appeal ; and there is good reason

    to believe he never saw it , nor did he ever publish a line in the controversy between the friends and opponents of Hannah Barnard . Having briefly stated the fact , I shall now leave it to you and your readers to make your comments upon it , and am , Sir , a lover of truth , and , therefore , No Orthodox Evangelical Reviewer *

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    416 Calumny en Mr . Evanson .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 476, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/28/