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    Upon the whole then , I cannot help fearing the halcyon days which in the imagination of so many worthy men lately followed each other in endless succession , will not be of so Jong duration , as has been expected .

    Where much inflammable matter is collected the smallest spark may produce an extensive conflagration . The ensuing Congress will constitute the most important period in

    the history of modern times . Nothing but the most consummate prudence on the part of the negociators , who will be there assembled , can long protract the revival of the horrors of war .

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    Letters of Bpm Burgess and Mr . Belsham .

    ( From the Gentleman ' s Magazine , June and July , 1814 . ) 1 . Bp . Burgess ' s Adclrtss to Unitarians . June , 1814 . An old friend and correspondent of Mr . Urban requests his

    insertion of the following Address in his interesting and valuable Magazine . An Address to Perso ? is calling themselves Unitarians , on Competency to judge of Disputed

    Scripture Doctrines ^ and of jR < % ligious Controversies . Occasioned by Mr Belskam ' s Review of the Controversy between Bp . Jiorsley and Dr . Priestley , You have been lately told , * that the controverted questions

    * " Calm Inquiry , p . 5 . Dr . Priestley's" Claims , * ' p . 6 , 7 . In the Newspapers of tins mo ^ th ( May , 1814 ) appeared the following advertisement : ? ' The Claims of Dr . Priestley in the Controversy with Bp . Horsley , restated and vindicated , in reply to the animadversions of the Reverend Hen-

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    respecting the Divinity of Christ are " plaint matters of fact the decision of which depends upon the evidence of testimony , of the

    validity of which every reader of sound understanding is competent to judge . " Be assured that you are greatly deceived in these attempts to shut your eyes against the mysterious character of the

    revealed truths of Christianity . If I can prove to you > that the person who has taken so much pains to persuade you that 6 i scholarship and criticism" are not necessary for the discussion of controverted doctrines , is himself not

    a competent judge , you may be the more inclined to give credit to the long established doctrines of the Christian Church * That the subjects at issue are not plain matters of fact , may be easily proved by the inability oJ the Jews to answer our Saviour ' s question , c * What think ye of Christ ? whose Son is he ? " And

    cage Horsley , Prebendary of St Asaph , annexed to the late re-publication of his Father ' s Tracts . Dedicated , by permission , to the Prince Regent , By Thomas Belsham , Author of a Calm Inquiry into the Scripture Doctrines concerning- the Person of Christ . ' Dedicated , by permission , to the Prince Regent ! \ ! Unitarianism under the

    Patronage of the Prin ce ! ! ! these must have been the painful exclamations of many readers , when they first saw the advertisement , and connected it with the recollection of the late repeal of the Act against Blasphemy . The friends of truth , therefore , of Christianity , and of the Church of

    England , cannot too soon be undeceived . Mr . Belsham's hook is not dedicated to the Prince Regent . The Dedication which is so artfully ( 1 had almost said , fraudulently ) introduced and pointed in the Advertisement , does not belong to Mr , Belsham ' e book , but to Mr . Horgley '* ,

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    602 Bp . Burgess ' s Address to Unitarians .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 602, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/14/