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ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN's

MAGAZINE AND REVIEW;

OR,

A TREASURY

OF

DIVINE AND USEFUL

KNOWLEDGE.

We are Members of THE CHURCH, which from the first has always glo-
ried in the name of Christian, as expressing her unity with Christ, and
in that of Catholic, as distinguishing her from all Classes and Clans of
Heretics.
BISHOP HORNE.

BY A SOCIETY OF CHURCHMEN.

VOL. IX.

FROM JULY TO DECEMBER, 1805.

HEC

LONDON:

Printed by Barnard and Sultzer, Water-Lane, Fleet-Street,

FOR THE PROPRIETORS, AND SOLD BY F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON,
62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

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ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S

MAGAZINE AND REVIEW,

FOR JULY 1805.

Nothing is so glorious in the eyes of mankind, and ornamental to human nature, setting aside the infinite advantages which arise from it, as a strong steady masculine pièty.

THE

BIOGRAPHY.

The LIFE of JOHN WICKLIFFE, D. D.

HE reformation is so great and interesting an event to christians, that nothing which concerns it, can be indifferent to them. It is not more pleasing than useful to trace the steps, by which the divine providence perfected this important work: and to observe the various causes, which concurred to its completion. On this account, we have determined to give our readers the life of our countryman Wickliffe, that they may carry their views still farther into the original of his renovation of christian truth; and see the spark, which lighted Huss, and Luther, and Cranmer, and others; till it shone forth into that bright and glorious day, which we of this happy nation now enjoy.

Every man, who knows any thing of human nature, is assured, that those, who attempt reformations of any kind, lie under great difficulties, and are subject to numberless misrepresentations. Reformers are men; and as such, they have their faults: and it too frequently happens, that the zeal for truth (wherewith they are animated, and without which they would not be reformers) carries them too far, and causes them to overshoot the mark, which they strain all their nerves to hit. These faults are greedily laid hold of by their adversaries, while their minutest slip is aggravated into the most enormous stumble. So many too are irritated, nay and interested to blacken them, that it is no wonder their characters. are loaded with a weight of infamy.

Much allowance should be made to these and the like considerations by the person who sits down to read any Vol. IX. Churchm. Mag. July 1805.

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