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I should not advise any one to imitate Tillotson's style; though I don't know; I should be cautious of censuring anything that has been applauded by so many suffrages. South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. Jortin's sermons are very elegant.
Jortin's Dis. on the Christ. Rel. p. 91, ed. 4. Christianity, however, proceeded to increase in Jerusalem by a progress equally rapid with its first success; for in the next chapter of our history, we read that "believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women." This I call the first period in the propagation of Christianity.
Oxlee on this point, and in Jortin's best manner displayed the gross ignorance of the Gentile Fathers in all matters relating to Hebrew learning, and the ludicrous yet mischievous results thereof, has formed a juster though very much lower opinion of these Fathers, with a few exceptions, than Mr. Oxlee.
Jortin's classification might perhaps be improved and simplified; but it serves to indicate in how lax a sense subscription was accepted by some the more so, as it was sometimes, in the case, for instance, of younger undergraduates, evidently intended for a mere declaration of churchmanship and how oppressive it must have been to the minds and consciences of others.
Johnson says: 'I have looked often, &c.; but he does not say 'he has been much informed, but only 'informed. Both letters are in the Gent. Mag. 1784, p. 893. Jortin's sermons are described by Johnson as 'very elegant. Ante, in. 248. He and Thirlby are mentioned by him in the Life of Pope. Works, viii. 254. Markland was born 1693, died 1776.
"Oh, there was a little account between us," said Dunsey, carelessly, "and Wildfire made it even. I accommodated him by taking the horse, though it was against my will, for I'd got an itch for a mare o' Jortin's as rare a bit o' blood as ever you threw your leg across.
Whoever made the comparison, I will do them the justice to believe that they understood bad Greek better than their own language in its elevation. For Dr. Jortin's Erasmus, which I have very nearly finished, it has given me a good opinion of the author, and he has given me a very bad one of his subject.
I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. Jortin's sermons are very elegant.
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