[Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]@TWC D-Link bookColeridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. PART I 14/15
No, the 'Gospel' has no such effect .-- It is always the 'Gospel Preacher' who works the miracle, &c. Excellent and just.
In this way are the Methodists to be attacked:--even as the Papists were by Baxter, not from their doctrines, but from their practices, and the spirit of their Sect.
There is a fine passage in Lord Bacon concerning a heresy of manner being not less pernicious than heresy of matter. Ib.p.
118. But their Saints, who would stop their ears if you should mention with admiration the name of a Garrick or a Siddons;--who think it a sin to support such an 'infamous profession' as that through the medium of which a Milton, a Johnson, an Addison, and a Young have laboured to mend the heart, &c. Whoo! See Milton's Preface to the Samson Agonistes. Ib.p.
133. In the Evangelical Magazine is the following article: "At----in Yorkshire, after a handsome collection (for the Missionary Society) a poor man, whose wages are about 28s.
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