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    esteemed friend , of whom such honourable mention is made in Mr . Belsham ' s recent work , Mr . Reynolds , of Paxton , he presented me with a copy . The volume contains such a mass of valuable

    information , respecting one of the excellent of the earth , that I am sorry it should have been mixed with materials which , I fear , will somewhat diminish its value .

    Strictures on certain parts , have already appeared in ypur Repository ; but if there be one part which , in my opinion , calls for animadversion more than another , it is that which relates to the late Robert

    Robinson of Cambridge ; a man , in whose writings , and for whose character , you , Sir , and some of your readers , are sensible I have

    taken a lively interest , but who has , a second time , been wounded in the house of a professed friend . The impression which Mr * Belsham ' s statement is calculated to

    make , may be learned by the fol - lowing extract of a letter I have just received from a minister well known , and much respected in the

    Christian world : — Pray h&ve you / ' says my friend , read Belsham ' s Memoirs of Lindsey ? The author gives a different view of Robinson ' s sentiments from what

    you had done * : his view is not very creditable to Mr . Robinson a honesty . " Now , Sir , as I have , I trust , not without success , already defended the character of the man

    I admire , from an attack somewhat similar , I shall venture on a second defence . I rely , therefore , on your wonted impartiality , in

    • Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Robinson , prefixed to vol . i . of his Miscellaneous Works .

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    allotting me a few pages of your Repository on this occasion . The biographer of Mr . Lindsey , commences his 7 th Chapter with an account of one of Mr . Robinson ' s most popular works , c * A flea for the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ /* in which account

    there is , however , such inconsistency , that it is scarcely possible for a man of plain , unsophisticated sense , to form a proper judgment of the character or the merits of the work . The " Plea " is in one part described as a Trinitarian * and in another as a

    Sabellian performance : in some pages as a treatise " written with great ingenuity , combined with wit and eloquence ;—^ -containing forcible and unanswerable arguments against the Arian hypothesis;—accompanied with great liberality towards those who hold a different

    opinion , and breathing throughout a most amiable spirit of candour : " in the same chapter , — " as egregiously trifling , so far as argument is concerned;—containing a sort of defence of the Deity of the Son of God , which learned

    Trinitarians , the Bulls and Waterlands of a former age , would have blushed to avow ; — consisting chiefly of a collection of texts , arranged as suited the author ' s purpose , without any attention to the connection , and even without any attempt to ascertain the

    correctness of the translation ; and commented upon , and explained agreeably to his own preconceived opin . ions , in a dogmatical style , with all the confidence of inspiration itself ! — Censuring Jesus Christ and his apostles , if they did not mean to teach the doctrine which he imputes to them , not a suspi-

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    18 On Mr . Bclsham ' s Account of ii , Robinson ' s

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/18/