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Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Vol. 2 of 3
The bishop not only puts the questions, but he actually assigns the limits within which they are to be answered. Spaces are left in the paper of interrogations, to which limits the answer is to be confined - two inches to original sin; an inch and a half to justification; three quarters to predestina tion; and to free will only a quarter of an inch. But if his lordship gives them an inch they will take an ell. His lordship is himself a theological writer, and by no means remarkable for his conciseness. To deny space to his bro ther theologians, who are writing on the most difficult sub jeeta, not from choice, but necessity; not for fame, but for bread; and to award rejection as the penalty of prolixity, does appear to us no slight deviation from Christian gentleness. The tyranny of calling for such short answers is very strik ingly pointed out in a letter from Mr. Tlturtell to the Bishop of Peterborough the style of which pleads, we think, very powerfully in favour of the writer.
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