The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-17 00:00:00

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of the mammaNpisatogriemand diverting relic of
other times. He is hetter worth seeing, we con-
ceive, than, even his late sable Majesty
Rhio Rhio, or his still more dingy cham-
berlain Poki. We' Say this from a somewhat
close aCquaintance with the Doctor's polemical dis-
cussions, in which (to use the language of our au-
thor) " he has raked together the rubbish of former
ages, at the risk of rekindling the flame of religious
discord, and with .a
view to deprive five or six Mil-
lions of his Chtistian brethren of their natural
rights." Thii,. in bye-gene times, would have pro-
moted him at once to the Bench; at present, thanks
to the more liberal spirit of Cloternment,- it merely
affords him the Satisfaction of reflecting that virtue
is its own reward :* . •
For the
,DOCtor .na Bishop wits made, •
Nor at present's Bishop is hev • -
And I think it may safely be
That a Bishop he never will be.
The present work is a temperate and triumphant
answer to the Doctor's Anti-Catinalir
It is a broad appeal to the best feelings of Muftis
mum* against all that is crooked in poliey and bi-
gutted in religion. The author, one of that
intetlli-
genv class of divines wbo, with the sincerest sere-
treottsee the sphere
Established Church, arb yPt anxious
iphere of its liberality extended; discusses
his subject, warmly but in a, Christian spirit, and by
the unaided power of common sense 'demolishes one
by one the barriers within whiCh Dr. Philpotts like
the giant In `Doubting Castle, has so sntigly en-
trenched himself. He has even silenced his mor-
derous' war-cry of " The Church in danger," and
turned his own artillery against him by proving, that
if the Church be reallyendangered, its wenkness can
only arise from its intolerance.
" Allow me to caution you, lest in your zeal agaiosr
Popery, you impair the interests of Christianity ; lest in
your eagernesq to exalt the Charch of England before men,
you inadvertently evidently their reverence for the Chnrel
of Christ. It would be difficult, I think, for any perion
of reflection to rise linulathe peened of
your pages, with-
out some momentary sense .of paril'azd misgiving. If the
spirit infested into them be really Abe spirit of our Protest •
ant church, how lamentably ,at variance does it appear
With the spirit of' the Owe! principlt4 And ist..
finence of the Runtish creed be actually such as you de-
dim weed amts?-an the errors of the Hindoo or Ma-
thee', awn t muchhstinp7kich mustie ratti.enrapaoirt toant eo
of
e aCth4rerie
hometan excite half the disgust and abhorrence which u 4
are taught by you to. cherish against the disciples of Jesus
Such thoughts as thews involentatily suggest 'themselves'-
and 1 beseeckyon, sir, to consider whether it is safe. to
produce them, I beseech you to _consider, whether it
an edifying spectacle tor the ituitter sad matt.. to see a
minister of religion so anomaly labouring to degrede his
Chriatian brethren, and raking up.all the slips dapositel
for centatierilw the'waiers is religuena strcte, to fling up s.
those whit woiship the same 'Cid and Res/terrier, and whsu,
derive all their fondest hopes from the Same 'eternal source
as biraself."-
'ln tiddition to this error" of judginent, our auths
charges tr.' Philpotts with putting forth a garisisd
extract, referring to the. Pepists " sofas back at 14s.
qf the-'serenteentiteenttny, for the purposs
fastening the crime involved in it on Ott, Irish
Roman 'Catholic poptilatipu of Me present
lie fortho accuses him of calling Mr. Canning'
attention to the Anti-Catholic evidence of rine 'who
" has
,no interests in the question," and yet this
very disinterested witness turns out to be a Mr.
Burnett, who belongs "
_to a sect (the' Independents)
exceeding—as the Doctor must have knownssevery
other in animosity towards the Church. of Rome."
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These it mast be confessed are meritorious instances
,of ingenuousness, .and when heightened with a ors.
ipious infusion of intolerance, afford us additismai
treasons for admiring the eharity—to say' rintislng at`
the wisdom—of a Christian advocate. .It is, not ,
pier* our intention to recupitulate or comment ott
'the various other charges sttecessfully proved by our
'author against .his Reverend opponent, the inere
patulogue wank far exceed our .limits;
t to say, that they may be classed tinder the difThie at.
heads of into'leriaiee, disingenuottsness, sophistry,
furanee, and stark, storing nonsense. Ills merits les
f sort of per contra statement are eharitably and
iomprehensively summed up under the items—
" highest talents," "most eonstenmste eloretetiee,"
of both which, however, in bare ,iirqtice to the
Poctor, we are bound to pronounce him, innocent..
So much for Dr. Philpotts and his able oppo-
nent : a word or two, before we conclude,, on the,
subject of 'their dispute—the trite but momentous
Catholic Question. It is evident those .who
letve risen into notice by their opposition to it, have
altogether mistaken the character of the times, anti
Wilt up their credit on a tnernii.:tlialanvewhtaickl its daily
I ei
pTssteinritntg beneathherr of ttl'iil:lll%age, when they should has
bsen actively commanding in the front. They have
brought to the subject opinions unconnected with
the times, anti wedded themselves' to a set of old
dowager dogmas which " tricked in antique ruff mid
bonnet" stand aloof from the sympathies, stud arc
abhorrent to the habits of , modern society. They
haVe set out on the supposition that the present
century is at a stand-still, whereas its intelleet
iy
rapidly pressing forward, and no more tit be stayed
by 4 the stubborn few,. than (Yuan by the eons-
mond of Canute. The Catholic Question, foams
but one branch of that veil system of improvement,
which each succeeding duty is bringing still nearer to
a crisis. In a few years it must inevitably be carried
—the voice of the assembled station has already
twice demanded its repealattilsiges hence, when
of tihe present generations not a vestige survives hut
their history; posterity looking back with reverence •
to -their numberless, stupendous, and 'enlightened •

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