The Works of the Rev Daniel Waterland

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: DEFENCE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S; PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO THE CHARGE OF PERSECUTION. IN ANSWER TO JONATHAN JONES, ESQ. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Frov. xxvi. 12. VOL. VI. DEFENCE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S. JL HERE goes a...
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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: DEFENCE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S; PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO THE CHARGE OF PERSECUTION. IN ANSWER TO JONATHAN JONES, ESQ. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Frov. xxvi. 12. VOL. VI. DEFENCE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S. JL HERE goes a pamphlet abroad, just published, entitled, Instructions to the Right Reverend Richard, Lord Bishop of St. David's, in Defence of Religious Liberty; by Jonathan Jones, Esq. The conceitedness of the title in some measure shows the man, and what we may expect from him. This gentleman, it seems, thinks himself qualified to be a public instructor, and to prescribe to our Prelates. It is not merely liberty of private judgment, that the fraternity are contending for, but liberty of setting up as apostles of infidelity, in opposition to the Christian guides, and to draw away people from paying any respect or deference to Christ, and his religion. He begins with telling the world, that this excellent Prelate has published a defence of Christianity, begun and carried on with a professed defence of persecution. But where has this gentleman learned that the punishing of blasphemy and profaneness, or the executing the laws against irreligion and immorality, is persecution ? We have heard of persecution for religion, for conscience, for truth: but what means persecution for 770 religion, no conscience, no truth ? It is prosecution certainly that he means; only he has not been used to speak with the exactness of Divines. I pass over a page and a half which are mere impertinence, and of no significancy at all, but to show howfull the writer is of himself. He talks magisterially about the Bishop's style, as if he were a judge of it; looks down with contempt and comm...