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    idour of the writer , the shewiness of his mode of reasoning , the popularity of his tract , and his great respectability , it may excite our surprize that Mr . L * 9 whose pen was in so many instances ready for controversy , should have taken no notice of it . till after

    many years , and that at last ( 1785 ) he should have published his " Examination" of the Plea anonymously . No two writers could be more unlike than the author of the

    Plea and the author of the Examination ; the one characterized by simplicity , almost childlike , and by plain solid sense , the other by wit and eloquence ; and it is probable that Mr . Robinson ' s work

    impressed Mr . Lindsey with sentiments very different from respect for the man , and hence , it may be concluded , sprung that ** bitter and contemptuous spirit' * of the Examiner , of which Mr . R . not wholly without reason complains * But it is not wonderful that Mr .

    L . should think-lightly of the effort of his antagonist , ' which was not , we believe , entirely satisfactory to Mr . Robinson ' s Trinitarian friends , and which , after a time , ceased to satisfy himself . Into this ingenious and excellent roan ' s last sentiments , which Mr .

    Belsham endeavours to ascertain , ( pp . 191—196 ) we shall not enquire ; it is sufficiently plain from the scene of his death , that , at the close of his life he was not remote in judgment and affection from the Unitarians .

    Impelled both by friendship and religious zeal , Mr . Lindsey came forward in 1786 , in defence of Dr . Priestley , whom he saw persons , that were incapable of answering his arguments , treating with affected contempt . He entitled his defence " Yin-

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    diciae Priestleiana ? , an Address to the Students at Oxford and Cambridge , " &c , and the piece was well adapted by its kind spirit and by its miscellaneous information ,

    to take hold of the ingenuous , inquisitive minds of youth . In th 1 work , however , some expressions escaped the author relating to £ >* , Price , which were inconsistent with his usual candour : Dr . Price

    remonstrated with becoming spirit , and Mr . Lindsey apologized with Christian meekness and frankness : the letters that passed on this occasion , ( pp . 206—209 ) art "highly honourable to the character of

    these two eminent men * - *—And Mr . Lindsey followed up hrs private concessions by & public re ^ tractation of the objectiapable

    wordsy in his v Second Address " This which was published in tfie year 1790 , « related to Jestis Christ , and the Origin pf the great Errors concerning bi n ** " which

    are traced up to Justin Maityr , Ci the first person who dscribefl divinity tq Christ /* Iiere appeared first , the < c Catalogue of False Readings and Mistranslations ^ afterwards republished in a .

    separate pamphlet . Mr , Belsham ' s analysis of the € i Second Address , " w interspersed with some curiotfs information concerning Dr . Watts ' s last , religious opinions $ as this pajtof the Memoirs haS'given birth td & pamphlet , by Mr . Palmer . * We , shall

    extract the whole , — \ >; < c In the First Pan of fjbji * . Second Address to the Youth pf # &ct £ wp Universities , Mr . Lindsey introduces . aoiiw

    curious and affecting passages < from B ** Watts * s «« Solemn Address to | Jie great and ever-blessed God , o « . a review of what he had writtca in fife Trinitarian Controversy fo j «( >^ jwft ^ iab «[ this learned arid pious writer , ( who part l ¦

    HI p «^ - |» ? <« Dr . Watts no Sodnian >

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    £ 32 Review . —Behham * Memoirs of Lhidsey * 4 ^ k

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/44/