The North British Review Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...and privileged minority, and you may see the warm hearts of the Irish welcoming the good news of salvation by grace through faith, without the aid of priests and masses, of saints in the other world, or images in this; and your unprivileged ministry working such moral wonders as bishops' lands, glebes, and tithes, never could enable it to accomplish." That so bold a pamphlet as that of Mr. Noel's should call forth strong feelings, was to be anticipated; and, accordingly, we are not greatly-surprised by the tone exhibited in a review of it, which has been republished from the "Irish Monthly Magazine for September 1845," in which it is vehemently denounced as " Mr. Noel's very mischievous letter," and "this ungenerous publication," but in which the reasoning of Mr. Noel is very feebly met. There is a poor ebullition of temper at the very outset, in which the author tries to be very smart, and succeeds only in showing that he is very sore: --"Before we proceed to review the interior of this book, we have one observation to offer on its title page. The author gives his name as Baptist TV. Noel, M.A. The Rev. Baptist Noel is well known to the religious public. Is this he? It is usual for clergymen, when they write books, and put their names to them, to prefix their tide. One would suppose there was an additional reason for so doing, when they write on a subject connected with the Church. Was it because this pamphlet is directed against the Church, that Mr. Baptist Noel's modesty led him to conceal the fact of his being one of her own ministers 1 Or has he taken a more honest part, and resigned his office ere he took up his pen to write evil and poisonous words against her whom he had sworn to reverence and support? "But, perhaps, this is...