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    guarded moments , " u His system , however , * ' we are told , " inclined to excessive indulgence ; " but though the writers of his life say or insinuate this , they afford no proof that any ill effects followed from it . About the beginning of the year 1790 , as he was comp leting the fiftyfifth year of his age , his health began to give way , under the pressure of his various labours and cares . His body failed , and his mind shared in

    some degree its weakness . He undertook , for relaxation , a journey to Birmingham to visit Dr . Priestley . He retained the sprightliness of his conversation , but he felt that he was an altered man . He said to one who visited him while in that town , " You have only come to see the shadow of Robert Robinson . " He preached , however , in Dr . Priestley ' s pulpit . The

    next Tuesday evening he passed in their company , entertaining them with his usual vivacity . He did not fear death ; but had always expressed an apprehension of the distress of parting with his family and friends , from the affliction which they must suffer . He died that night , agreeably to a wish which he had expressed , " softly , suddenly , and alone . " When he was found in the morning , the bed-clothes were not discomposed , nor his countenance distorted .

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    [ The following letter is from the pen of a learned and able German Theologian , Professor Sack , and addressed to the Rev . E . P . Pusey , a minister of the Church of England , who has lately published " An Historical Inquiry into the probable Causes of the Rationalist Character lately predominant in the Theology of Germany . " Both parties , it will be seen , are of the Evangelical school , but the subject has lately attracted so much interest , that we have thought we should gratify our readers by printing the Professor ' s letter entire . ]

    You express a wish , my dear Friend , for my opinion upon Mr . Rose ' s book " on the State of Religion in Protestant Germany ; " and , even at the risk of your occasionally meeting with views and opinions contrary to those to which you are attached , I will give it you ; being fully convinced that we are agreed on the main points , and that you are yourself sufficiently acquainted with Germany to enter into the circumstances which either remove or mitigate the charges of Mr . R . You will allow me in the outset to

    own to you that a renewed perusal of the work of your countryman excited in me on two accounts a feeling of pain ; on the one hand , that so much evil could be said of the Theological Authors of my country , which it is impossible to clear away ; on the other , that this was done in a form and manner which could not but produce a confused view and false picture of the state of Germany . Gladly , however , I allow , that a very different mode of judging of German Theology would have given me infinitel y deeper pain . I mean such an agreement with the prevailing views of the Rationalist school aa would have presented them to the indifferent party in England under the dazzling colours of theological liberality . This would have seemed to me a yet more unnatural violation of the relation in which the English Church ( taking the word in its widest sense ) is called upon to stand to the German ; and since Mr . R . has missed the real course of the developement of the opinions of theological Germany , the harsh and oft per-

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    5 $ 2 Professor Sack ' s View of Religion in Germany .

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    PROFESSOR SACK ON MR . ROSE ' S VIEW OF RELIGION IN GERMANY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page 522, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/10/