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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
was installed September zz . It has been said , that another Deanery , which had been vacant not long before , was intended to have been conferred on him . Lord North , it is certain , was his friend . He could not , indeed , _ but experience the particular regard of a statesman , who to his dying day was a most sincere friend and most powerful sunport of the Church of England , in times when such support was nwst wanted
. " " His time was now divided between Oxford and Canterbury ; and as at the former place he was beloved as the amiable Governor , at ' the latter he became no less esteemed as the friendly and hospitable Dean . During his residence at Canterbury , he was always ready ( as he had ever been both in the metropolis and in the university ) to exert his services
from the pulpit on public occasions . The opening of a new organ in the cathedral , the institution of Sunday Schools , the annual meeting of gentlemen educated in the King's School , and the visitation of the arcnbishop , afforded him opportunities of displaying in that city with what taste and feeling he could describe the power of sacred music , with what zeal he could plead the cause of indigent children , with what justhe could
ness point out the means of obtaining true wisdom , with what ? ° ^" . he could contend for the " faith delivered unto the saints . " While on these and other occasions he gratified the public as a preacher , his talents were also employed as a writer in exposing the vain pretensions of " Science , falsely so called . " In 1784 he published " Letters on Infidelity ; " in which , armed with the weapons of sound argument and exquisite humour , he defeats the dark and wretched system of Hume ; a system which would subvert every idea of truth and happiness , and teach us
. —¦——rr " with impious haste " To pluck from God ' s right hand his instruments of death . " . The theological opinions of another philosopher occasioned in 1787 the publication ' of " A Letter to the Rev . Dr . Priestley , by an Undergraduate" of Oxford ; the author of which ( who exposed with so much humour the mutability of the Doctor ' s creed ) was soon known to be the
Dean of Canterbury . He respected , indeed , the eminent diligence and the eminent attainments of Dr . Priestley in literary purfuits ; but he conceived his abilities , " as touching matters theological , " to be - misemployed . Dr . Horne was averse from " a reli gion without a Redeemer , . without a Sanctifier , without Grace , without a Sacrifice , without a Priest , without an Intercessor . " He believed the Christian Savito be
our _ the infinite and eternal Jehovah . He affirmed the doctrine of the Trinity to fje a matter not of vain or unprofitable speculation . " Our religion , "says he ,. " is founded upon it ; for what is Christianity but a manifestation of the three Divine Persons , as engaged in the great work of man's redemption , begun , continued , and to be end-- " ed by themin their several relations of FatherSonand Hol
, , , y Ghost , Creator , Redeemer , and Sanctifier , three Persons , one God ? If -there be no Son of God , where is our redemption ? If there be no Hol y Spirit , where is our sanctification ? Without both , where is our salvation ? And if these two persons 'be any thing less th ; m divine ^
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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
was installed September zz . It has been said , that another Deanery , which had been vacant not long before , was intended to have been conferred on him . Lord North , it is certain , was his friend . He could not , indeed , _ but experience the particular regard of a statesman , who to his dying day was a most sincere friend and most powerful sunport of the Church of England , in times when such support was nwst wanted
. " " His time was now divided between Oxford and Canterbury ; and as at the former place he was beloved as the amiable Governor , at ' the latter he became no less esteemed as the friendly and hospitable Dean . During his residence at Canterbury , he was always ready ( as he had ever been both in the metropolis and in the university ) to exert his services
from the pulpit on public occasions . The opening of a new organ in the cathedral , the institution of Sunday Schools , the annual meeting of gentlemen educated in the King's School , and the visitation of the arcnbishop , afforded him opportunities of displaying in that city with what taste and feeling he could describe the power of sacred music , with what zeal he could plead the cause of indigent children , with what justhe could
ness point out the means of obtaining true wisdom , with what ? ° ^" . he could contend for the " faith delivered unto the saints . " While on these and other occasions he gratified the public as a preacher , his talents were also employed as a writer in exposing the vain pretensions of " Science , falsely so called . " In 1784 he published " Letters on Infidelity ; " in which , armed with the weapons of sound argument and exquisite humour , he defeats the dark and wretched system of Hume ; a system which would subvert every idea of truth and happiness , and teach us
. —¦——rr " with impious haste " To pluck from God ' s right hand his instruments of death . " . The theological opinions of another philosopher occasioned in 1787 the publication ' of " A Letter to the Rev . Dr . Priestley , by an Undergraduate" of Oxford ; the author of which ( who exposed with so much humour the mutability of the Doctor ' s creed ) was soon known to be the
Dean of Canterbury . He respected , indeed , the eminent diligence and the eminent attainments of Dr . Priestley in literary purfuits ; but he conceived his abilities , " as touching matters theological , " to be - misemployed . Dr . Horne was averse from " a reli gion without a Redeemer , . without a Sanctifier , without Grace , without a Sacrifice , without a Priest , without an Intercessor . " He believed the Christian Savito be
our _ the infinite and eternal Jehovah . He affirmed the doctrine of the Trinity to fje a matter not of vain or unprofitable speculation . " Our religion , "says he ,. " is founded upon it ; for what is Christianity but a manifestation of the three Divine Persons , as engaged in the great work of man's redemption , begun , continued , and to be end-- " ed by themin their several relations of FatherSonand Hol
, , , y Ghost , Creator , Redeemer , and Sanctifier , three Persons , one God ? If -there be no Son of God , where is our redemption ? If there be no Hol y Spirit , where is our sanctification ? Without both , where is our salvation ? And if these two persons 'be any thing less th ; m divine ^