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    to enable the reader to form a judgment who has designedly , of uadesignedl y > " so greatly misstated" Mr . Evansonf ' s sentiments , The Plain Christian , or J . S , My last charge relative to Mr . Evanson was his " enthusiasm . ' * The only answer from his panegyrist- is ,, that it is unfounded . '' The evidence ^ however , which I brought in support of the charge was so well founded * , that Jm S . very prudently-made no attempt to refute it . J * S * :-towards the close of his letter , has given us a summary of Mr .. Evanson ' s system of Christianity ; and such an imperfect , mutilated , frigid account of the Christianity of the N " ew Testament surely never was before , and I hope never will again be presented to the public . Xhe sneers it contains against : the

    peculiar doctrines or Revelation , the glories of which Infelligences of a superior order are represented as desiring to bend down to contemplate f / so far from being worthy of a Christian or even of a modest sceptic , are only worthy of a confirmed infidel |! The reader will perceive that in the present controversy rny design has been fairly and impartially to display Mr . Evanson ' s

    sentiments , rather than to refute them . My own Opinion of the attack of Mr . Evanson on the Sacred Writings is in exact conformity with that of a late eminent prelate , Archbishop Newcome , ~ as recorded in a late Repository— " I am glad that Dr . Priestley has replied to Mr . Evanson ' s Dissonances . * Much more remains to be said in a full confutation , but it ai > -

    peared to me , that the objections had been all solved l ) y the best expositors and harmonists § . " Were I inclined to enter on a more full confutation , " I should do little more than quote Mr . Evanson ' s opinions in his own language * I have , however , no wish to continue a controversy , which , probably , I should never have commenced but for the ill-judged and unfounded panegyrics passed on his writings by J . S . Should I , however , be called forth by the EvansoniariSj I am ready to produce such specimens , from Mr . Evanson ' s works , of inattention to the usual phraseology of Scripture and to the manners and customs of antiquity , of

    deep-rooted prejudices , contemptible cavils , childish conceits ^ and arrogant dogmatism , as would be disgraceful even to a novice in Christianity . Prudence , together with a respect to the memory of their oracle , will , I trust , prevent them from provoking farther discussion . It will be for their interest to let erery thing be at rest relative to Mr . Evanson , except the

    * Monthly Repository for May , p . 348 , 249 . f- 1 Pet . i . 18 . Sec Poddridgc in Loc . % Monthly Repository , for June , p , 3 6 5 , 366 , § M . R . for Oct . p . 519 *

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    Remarks on the Writings of Mr . Evanson . 653

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/37/