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    I MR S .. coach /* and the noises of otfier vehicles , such as the sharp r * ule of the Whirling phaeton , and the graver rumble of the loaded waggon , mixed with the oaths and imprecations of the brawling drirers . ^ ( Vol ii . pp . 266 , 268 . )

    Thereiire those who have praised the acuteriess of this author as a metaphysician and logician . With the view of ascertaining his merits io these characters , let us attend to his strictures on Mr . Farmer . That admirable writer , our reaclers will recollect ,

    endeavours to shew from analogy , that beings superior to man have not the power of ' working miracles , * What then is the reply of Dr . H ?

    w It is matter , ** says he , * ' of feet and daily experience , that nigre man , in addition to the natural dominion' of the mind of every individual over the body which he animates , has acquired an empire o { no small extent over

    the maiter of the external world " Vol . X »» 4— £ ? £ , , . ' .., This is perfectly true \ b > ut it is faathiife to tte purpose ^ The

    questions ta be revived , are , Does man act * of can he a , ct # out of ntsproper sphere ? L \ an the proface changes in the stin , tj ^ c iTfi op n , tbepjanets , ami still more in , the fixed stars , and the most distant bodies in creation ? All this must be demonstrated , before the case *

    put b y our author , etui be regarded as analogous to that which is heated on by Mr . Farmer ^ The P- 'oofs given by this preacher of what , he terms man ' s empire over ^ be matter of the external world ,

    * re no more than familiar but pleasing examples o ( Lord Bacon ' s i pkorism , «« knowled ge is pbWer /' In the two quotations with which

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    our review of these able stud unequal volumes will be concluded ^ Bishop H . speaks the language of

    a consistent Protestant , and of a warm , enlightened advocate for the lower orders of tfae people . Enemies to ecclesiastical domination ^ whether in a convocation or in

    a general assembly , friends of the beautiful and well-tried plan of elementary instruction which we owe , upder Providence , to-Joseph . Lancaster * we hail such senti - ments from such a man , and ex *

    claim with delight , if not with astonishment , " Is Saul also among the prophets ? ' Vol . ii . 8 , fi . Quit novus hie nostris successit tedibus hotpes ? Gtueat « csc ore fereiis !

    i 4 The claim of infallibility , or even of authority , to prescribe magisterially to the opinions and the consciences of men , wheth e r in an individual or in assemblies and

    collections o £ men , is never to be admitted . Admitted , said I!—it is not to be heard with patience , unless it be supported by a mi . racle z ' - " ( vol . i . * 12 , & € . >—QC the most effectual means of

    preaching the gospel to the po 6 r , is by charitable provisions for the religious education of theif chiU d-ren *"— " Blessed be God , instil tuttons for this piotfs purpose abound in most parts of the king *

    dom . The authority of our Lord ' s example , of preaching to the poor , will , with every serious believer ^ outweigh the objection which hatk been raised against these charitable institutions , by a mean and dastardly policy imbibed in foreign climes , not less •¦ unchristian than it is in ~

    consistent with tbe genuine feelings of the home-bred Britoii—* policy which pretends to * foresee ^ that by the advantages of a religiout eduefction ^ the poor may bt

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    &eview ^—&r . JHorsley i Sermons t 99

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/45/