The Eclectic Review (Volume 23) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lives and our fortunes, let it be our endeavour to arm the whole country against them, ?not by political or military associations, but by the diffusion of knowledge. The Bible conquered Popery at the Reformation?the progress of the Reformation was the downfal of Priestcraft, and the emancipation of the People. Let every Protestant in the Sister Country understand his Bible, imbibe its principles, and evince in his own conduct its purity, justice, and benevolence; with this, let him also make himself thoroughly acquainted with the doctrines of Popery, as they are the corruptions of the true religion;?let him, at the same time, be zealous in propagating the unadulterated Gospel of the Saviour?and the worst evil of his country will at length vanish before him. When Popery dies in Ireland, liberty, wealth, prosperity, and happiness will revive. Remove the Moral curse, and you at once achieve the civil freedom of your country.' p. iv. We have not thought it necessary to give any extracts from the admirable speeches of the Protestant Clergymen who nobly stood forward on these occasions, because we hope that every one of our readers will put himself in possession of these most interesting publications. Art. VI. Il/ir.-i- Roman t or an Attempt to elucidate St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, by an original Translation, explanatory Notes, and new Divisions. By Robert Cox., M.A. small Svo. pp. 88. Price 3s. London. 1823. who propose to explain or to remove the difficulties of an author, seldom satisfy themselves with the simple statement of them: they not only enumerate, but they also exaggerate them. Hence the prolixity of many commentators, and the perplexity which the readers of their expositions so often find in them. Wishing to succeed where others have failed, they are not wi...