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vated piety then turns»to eruelty. The 
imiling countenance conceals a bitter 
heart; the fondnefs of grimalikin, who, 
while he purs in the face, fcratches 
with his claws. This feverity is, how- 
ever, fometimes, only profeffional, and 
more in language than temper. For 
‘real benevolence is a genuine feeling ; it 
peflefles a moving, a propelling quality 
and, like a river, overflowing its banks, 
hurries men beyond the boundaries of 
their fyems : 
Labitur, et labetur in omne volubilis evum. 
Hor. 
It flows, and. flows, and will! for ever flow. 
Jnftice is due to man,as man. Thofe 
called {eeptics are often men of great 
talents, much learning, and genuine in- 
tegrity. Principle and a fenfe of honour 
may/beto them what piety is to a Chrif-. 
tian ;—real piety we mean, for falfe is like 
a cracked jar, good for nothing but mean 
fervices’.—Tinnit, znane eft: and hypocri- 
tical piety, fays Tillotfoa judicioufly, is 
double iniquity. Indeed, it has been 
fufpected by fome, that many who have 
written very learnedly in defence of 
Chriftianity, have been fecretly unbeliev- 
ers ; for where men, fay they, find it { dif- 
ficult to bring their reafon mto the ranks, 
or, to borrow the words of an ingenious 
divine, where reajon ftands fo much aghaf, 
it is much if faith is very fincere. 
Lord Bacon is great authority. He 
entwines theology in his philofophical 
{peculations, and has written in favour of 
Chriflianity. But he was a great rea- 
foner ; and he fcems to find as much diffi. 
culty in dilciplining his reafou to matters 
of faith, as others to accredit their faith 
by the exercife of reafan. After all, he 
has been thought by many to have been a 
mete philofopher, humouring what he fup- 
pofed the popular prejudice, and thinking, 
perhaps, with another eminent man, that 
‘* fuperttition is a religion out of fafhion, 
and religion a fuperftition in fafhion.” 
Thomas Baker, to whofe MSS. at Cam- 
bridge, and in the Britith mufeum, we 
have frequently had occafion to refer, and 
whofe “ Refiefions on Learfing” efta- 
blithes the neceffity of revelation on the 
imperfection of human knowledge, was 
fuppoled by fome to grow at length a 
jitle fceptical. This is mentioned by 
Mr. Matters in his Life of Baker. , The 
fufpicion arefe fiom Baker’s joining a 
_ club at Cambridge, of a free turn of mind, 
called at that time in the univerfity, the 
Old Maids’ Club, 
this club, 
Dr, Middleton was of 
Cantabrigiana,, - i om 
The Rev. Mr. Carrol wrote feveral, 
books, to thew, that Dr. Clarke was an: 
atheift, and appeals to his very book oz, 
the Being -and Attributes of God. Ano- 
ther divine lays the fame charge againtk, 
Dr. Cudworrh, author of one of the molt. 
learned bocks in favour of theifm, the 
Intellegtual Syftem of the Univerfe. ‘Mr. 
Leflie charges Bifhop Burnet and Arch- 
bifhhop Tillotfon with Socinianifm ; and 
Dr. Hickes, who wrote both again Bur- 
net and Tillotfon, calls the latter the 
grave athe? that ever was. 
The above matters belong to Cam. 
bridge :—The following indeed to Geneva 
and Rome. Ad homines autem fi veniamus, 
fatis {citur quales reperturi fimus Chrilti 
vicafios: Julius fcilicet, et Leo, et Cle- 
mers, et Paulus Chrifiane Fidei Cclum- 
ne erunt, primiq. religionis interpretes, 
qui nibil aliud de Cbhriito tenuerunt nif 
quod didicerant in fchola Luciani. Sed 
quid tres aut quatuor pontifices enumero, 
quali vero dubium ft qualem religionis 
{peciem proiefli fint jampridem ponrifices. 
cum toto caidinalium collegio? Primum 
enim arcane illius Vheologiz que inter * 
eos regnat, caput eft ; nallum efle Deum ; 
alterum, quzcunque de Chriito feripta 
funt et docentur mendacia effe et impotf- 
turas. Calvini infiitut. Ub. 4, chap. 7, 
fee. 17. And here is prefbyterianiim 
acainft popery. 
On the other hand, many eminent-Pa~- 
pifts and Epifcopalians have retorted the 
charge ; maintaining that Preibyterians, 
Independents, Baptifts and Quakers are 
on the road to infidelity ; that by throw- 
ing off implicit faith and the authoraty of 
the church they fap the foundations of 
Chriftianicy, and by claiming the right of 
private judgment, they haften to throw 
the ‘building into ruins. We fay no- 
thing, except, ‘* They are not all ifvael, 
hat ave of I{rael.”° ! 
No. CXCVIII.—- MORAVIANS, UNBE- 
LIEVERS, SCEPTICS, PLATONISTS, &C. 
Moravians are fo called from Moravia, 
a part of Germany that borders on Boe 
hemia, where they are faid to have origi- 
nated. A party of them came into this 
country, in the middle of the laf century, 
with Count Zinzendorf, and a few con- 
gregations were formed in different parts 
of England. They differ from the other: 
fe€taries in a peculiar mode of addrefling 
Chrift, as the lamb, in appealing to the 
wounds in his fide, in their attachment to’ 
intrumental mufic in their chapels, and in 
the divifion of their focieties into clafles. 
They call themfelves Unitas Fratrum, 
profelling 
