it's due limits, they will fo far diminish the good effects of their own inftructions, and weaken that deference which they so justly deferve.

Let it moreover be remembered, that while we who are friends to the establishment, wage war against the absurd opinions of men, we mean to create no irritation against their perfons or their property. We would teach them the art of being truly happy, both in their civil and their religious capacity, and difpel that gloominess which is too obvious to be concealed.

Let the diffenters be particularly cautioned against the deep-rooted malignity of Dr. PRIESTLEY, who defcended to ill-founded cavil and Baotian wit, on fubjects and circumstances unconnected with his fpecifick opinions. How different is the spirit of the English clergy? They have been ready to allow to eminent diffenters their real merit. If they do not in every point coincide with

Drs. John Leland, Chandler, Lardner, Watts, Dodderidge, Price, Kippis, and many others, they are still grateful for their laudable exertions in the common caufe. The divines of Scotland have alfo received their tribute of praise and attention. Their names I need not specify, when their works are in every one's hand. Nor have the French compofitions of Bertheau, Bourdaloue, Mafillion, Fleury, Saurin, and others, been difregarded. So truly do we despise national prejudice, and revere the learned of all countries and denominations.

Let enthufiaftick teachers relinquifh that extemporary preaching, which the wifeft amongst them can fo ill perform; let us hear of no extraordinary gift, and let not the folemn truths of religion be difgraced by contemptible language. Let them neither directly or indirectly cenfure the established clergy, for trufting to what is called the dead letter; let them compose less, and with more

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care; and while they condefcend to the capacities of the ignorant, let them not offend the ears of the most intelligent.

On Mr. GISBORNE's delineation of the duties of lawyers and phyficians, I had

little to obferve; but while I must be excufed in thinking, that he was not very fortunate in his choice of authors on the pastoral care, I acknowledge with fatisfaction, that he has greatly improved upon them,

In addition to what is there faid of the infidelity of Phy ficians, I produce a quotation from the Zoonomia of Dr. DARWEN, vol. ii. p. 410.

"Of this kind are the bulk of mankind. They continue "throughout their lives in a state of childhood, and have thus "been the dupes of priests and politicians, in all ages of the "world.

"In regard to religious matters, there is an intellectual "cowardice inftilled into the minds of children from their infancy, "which prevents their enquiry; credulity is made an indifpenfable "virtue; to enquire, or exert their reason in religious matters, is "denounced as finful, and in the Catholick church, is punished with more fevere penances than moral crimes "

I believe every intelligent reader will fee how infidious, how difingenuous this attack is, very fimilar to thofe of HUME, of whom in many paffages we can fcarce pronounce, whether he be against us, or on our part.

The fingularity of the Doctor in his own profeffion, must be left to the medical gentlemen; but the foundnefs of his judgment, js, on many occafions, liable to fufpicion,

I have treated Bishop BURNET with little ceremony or respect, for the opinion of Swift remains unrefuted; and though it cannot be denied, that licentioufnefs of conduct in the clergy, had it been proved, must be very injurious to religion, yet if there ever existed a prelate, who was affiduous in all the clerical offices, and yet was a time-ferver and a calumniator, he muft, as far as his example went, have given a deep wound to christianity Such was the Bishop of Sarum, of whose writings the last page is the most pleasant. A new hiftory of the reformation, and a comment on the articles, are much wanted, and who believes half the history of his own times*?

* In addition to what is faid concerning Bishop BURNET's accufation of the clergy, the reader will excufe the following extract from Deifm Revealed, vol. ii. dial. 7. "If the vices of one "clergyman can turn a man of this stamp into an infidel, why "should not the virtues of another convert him again?—The good "parfons may ftrike, and strike with a force not to be refifted by "reafon, but what will this avail, fince the bad, being feconded "by all his paffions and defires, may eafily drive him down the “wind of his own prejudices, against the virtues of ten thousand « faints and martyrs?---You do not act so weakly in other things. "It is no argument with you that money is of no value, because "you fee another idly fquander it away."

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To the other prelate from whom Mr. GISBORNE has borrowed, I look with real reverence and refpect. I confider him as a diligent and good man, exerting his talents in the cause of religion with unremitted zeal. His error concerning the divine legation, was the error of the day, common to him with Bishop Smalbroke, and fome of the governing part of the University of Oxford. To attempt to appreciate his merit altogether, would be invidious and prefumptuous, and it fhould be confidered, that a publick station creates many interruptions. We learn from Dr. Knox, that the Archbishop began the ftudy of Hebrew in early life, under the tution of the Rev. Samuel Jones; and we may hope that our refpectable feminaries of school education, will, in time, follow the example. The drudgery will thus be overcome in early life.

The charges only come under immediate confideration, and though useful, they are written with more purity of intention, than vigour

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