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she denies it, that of the words Jesus Christ she is desirous, like all the non-descripts, to make a" charm, a talisman, an incantation," a mystical, unscriptural, unreasonable, unintelligible "strange "doctrine."

I have myself heard one of these exalters of the Saviour, in his church in Bristol, from the pulpit speak these words:-"There is no glory in heaven, but what Jesus Christ gives it."

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The clergy of the church of England, with some exceptions, are censured for not preaching and inculcating this doctrine; they are charged with teaching only a "frigid morality," they are (p. 244)

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"Lukewarm and temporizing divines, who have become

popular by blunting the edge of that heavenly tempered weapon, whose salutary keenness, but for their deceit"ful handling,' would oftener pierce to the dividing "asunder of soul and spirit."

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"But, (she goes on, p. 245) those severer preachers of righteousness, who disgust by applying too closely to "the conscience; who lay the axe to the root, oftener "than the pruning knife to the branch; such heart-searching writers as these will seldom find access to the houses " and hearts of the more modish Christians." 66 She is not

sure whether the former sort have not done religion much "more harm than good."

In p. 76, she tells us

"We have a wise and virtuous Minister," (Mr. Pitt!) many respectable, and not a few 'serious' clergy. Their "number," she adds, "I am willing to hope is daily in"creasing."

And so it would appear from the Blagdon controversy. There are nine connected with her

and her schools in Somersetshire! She, however, disclaims all desire of seeing the enthusiasticscenes of THE HOLY FATHERS OF THE DESART acted over again. Whether the scenes of the 17th century be congenial to the spirit of puritannical enthusiasm, let the preachers of " frigid 'morality" in the church of England judge, and remember the 27th and 30th of January, 1648, when the Bishops were dismissed, and cathedrals and colleges converted into stables for the soldiers of the Lord, the exalters of the Saviour.

Of her Remarks on DUPONT'S SPEECH, I have little now to remark. She, wicked sinner, did all she could, and exalted her vulture's croak to engage the nations in a war ruinous to both, and to the royal cause and family of France. Her "bloody piety" is more deleterious to the human race than even the atheism of Dupont. He was for sparing the lives of his fellow-creatures by peace. She preached up blood and war, for the destruction of the innocent, to send myriads, untimely, without repentance, with all their sins upon their heads, to the eternal allotment. However foolish the speech of Dupont was, for none but a fool could say, “I am an atheist," that he was far less cruel than H. More is evident. That woman, I am persuaded, would by any means destroy any object that had the misfortune to displease her, or stand in the way of her projects. The whole history of her life proves it. The Blagdon controversy demonstrates it. She is now marked, and when the nation has recovered from the delirium of war, and John Bull shall have had

a good night's sleep, he will declare himself little obliged to those who administered the poisonous draught, that inflamed his brain with the phrenzy of breaking his own and his neighbour's head, and staying ten years at the public-house (a vice in another part of her works she by non-descriptisms desires to cure) to mortgage his estate to three hundred millions. "The child unborn may rue "the day." From the author of that pamphlet, except the reprobation of atheism, in which we all unite with her, no good can be expected. It is a farrago of falsehoods. From her blood-loving, hypocritical cant, the world, when she shall be better known, will learn but little virtue, little truth, little rational or true piety.

VOL. VII.

STRICTURES ON FEMALE EDUCATION:

TO correct the taste, to reform the manners, to revive the dormant religion of a nation, by endeavouring to "stir up the gift of God which " was in them," is not only patriotic, but benevolent. But the question is, how to do this, by what means, and by whom; and whether that which is proposed, be a reformation or deformation of taste. That Mrs. More has strong feelings of piety, that she has benevolence, and that part of charity called alms-giving, I will not deny; but I much doubt whether that degree of nondescript puritanism, which she with considerable

address so earnestly labours to resuscitate, be not as dangerous to the present and future happiness of a people, as that universal indifference, the existence of which, she, to make her own nostrum more acceptable, endeavours to prove, even if we should not enquire whether she have or have not, as has been lately surmised, any GRAND SCHEME or private object in view. Viewing the temporary mania, for it was but temporary, that suddenly arose in France to disgrace the cool temper, wise means, the liberal and extensively benevolent objects of the first stages of the revolution, with that horror it so justly excited, and which the friends of war and bloodshed, the despotic and tyrannically inclined, in this and every other country, never failed to magnify and exaggerate, I should appear void of penetration, and deficient in logical discrimination, if I suffered a particular censure to pass as a general imputation. This indeed was the potion too long infused into the cup of the people, and which, as our present Minister, Mr. Addington, is reported to have publicly declared, "brought the nation " to the brink of ruin," and made necessary peace on any terms, which delirated the mass, perverted reason, corrupted integrity, and paralyzed individual virtue. Of this cup, H. More has, herself, copiously drank, and abundantly administered to the intoxication of others. It was a suitable theme for her violent and tragical temper; and were she to live a thousand years, and so earnestly pray as to sweat as it were " drops of blood,” her

guilt, even in that respect, would not be expiated. Of the murders of thousands, which she favoured and promoted, may she " repent with a repentance "not to be repented of."

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With this leaven she studies to leaven the whole mass of the people; and lest the errors of the church of Rome, by acts of our legislature long ago declared"damnable," should be cancelled, and replaced by other French errors equally damnable, (for in damnation, I conceive, there are no degrees) she recommends, even in " Strictures on Female "Education," p. 5, unanimity, "in boldly and nobly opposing" the French hydra, this centaur, the enemy of " religion, order, and govern65 ments," lest the Vicar of Christ should loose the guardianship of the keys of heaven and hell, whose priests impiously pronounced themselves, as history relates, greater than God, because they "could create God, by converting a wafer into "the body and blood of God." To describe then, with impartiality and a sincere regard to truth and justice, the professed and real object of the French revolution in the fewest words, as well as that of the war we have madly carried on, which began in iniquity, and has ended in disgrace, is to sayThe object of the French was the reformation of their own government, and the general amelioration of human society; but the neighbouring nations, to disgrace liberty, drove them to madness. England made war to monopolize the commerce of the world. Politics, however, now and then afford H, More a topic of declamation, and the popularity of her

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