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    Olivers' retort courteous ; nor did I ever see it myself . I received the anecdote some years since ,

    from an old gentleman who was a Methodist above forty years , and who quaintly remarked 4 i that though Tommy Olivers had left his awl ) he still retained the art of piercing . "

    Your correspondent mentions several instances of the rancorous temper in which the Calvinists conducted their controversy with the Arminians about the period above mentioned , arui quotes some lines from a piece which he calls 'A T&te a T 6 te between Satan

    and John Wesley . ' It is many years sine © I saw that scurrilous production , but I have a recollectian that the title of it is ' A Dialogue between -Old Nick and Old John : A

    Fragment . ' The writer represents Old John as saying , — There * is Whitfield , as many < : an tell , Has sent dawn his thousands to hell , And , for aught that I know , is gone with them todwell .

    To this Old Nick replies , — I own pay dear John , for ' tis true , He was not so perfect as you ; Yctj confound hifri ! I lost him for all I could do .

    I am persuaded the religious world is so far improved in the present day , that no Calvinist or Arminian of any respectability , would now * descend to any thing so contemptible as tV > e above

    doggerel ; yet polemic warfare is not always conducted with the meekness and gentleness that become the gospel . It is well known that Mr . Toplady was a necessarian and that he published a wdrk in defence of ffae doctrine of necessity . I am informed , by at ^ elid ^ tly gentieixi a ^ 6 i my acquaintance , that he also , VOL , VI . TT

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    in his latter days , believed the doctrine of the restoration of all men , as . the proper result of that

    of necessity . 1 should be glad to be informed by any of your correspondents whether Mr . T . became a necessarian early or late in life ; ar ^ d whether he ; ever publicly avowed his belief of the res - toration , either b y preaching" or writing any thing on that benevolent subject . CRASUSS .

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    On the " Eclectic Review" of Airs . Cappe ' s Life of Christ . The" * Eclectic Review / for February , in this jear , contains a a article which is really distinguished in places by candour , -M scrips of such articles would raise the

    moral character of this publication above the level of the ordinary monthly vehicles of intolerance and slander . We allude to the review of ' Mrs . Cappe ' s Life of Christ . ' The reviewer displays a

    qvantum sufficit of sectarian com . placeucy , but he evidently meant to do justice ( according to his views of right , ) to the work under examination . He quotes Or passage from the Preface , on holiness being the sum and substance of

    Christianity , with approbation ; and then remarksu Who can withhold cordial and warm approbation from the tenor and spirit of this impressive paragraph . And that any advocate of the orthodox faith should ¦

    have used keen reproaches and envenomed pens against those whose prejudices , learned or vulgar , have rendered them hostile to the truth

    is matter of deep regret , and is unutterably injurious , to the ho * , nours of the pure and holy t foctrin £ of Christ . It is no palliation to refer to any instances of

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    On the Eclectic Review * ' of Mrs . Cappe ' s Life of Christ . 153

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/25/