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      JANUARY , 1827 .

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      Parties in the religious world , as in the political , are , at the present moment , exceedingly confused . Prejudices and even principles have been melted down , and have run into one another . As yet they are scarcely amalgamated ; but when the heated and disturbed mass has cooled , settled into consistency and assumed its last form , may we not hope that public opinion , like the Corinthian Brass , will be of more intrinsic value than any or all of the separate materials of which it shall be compounded ?

      From the era of the Reformation downwards , there has been a constant , though unequal , ferment in the minds of the English people . Religion has not always been the avowed object of thought and zeal , but it has commonly been mingled with all other objects . At one time Puritanism , at another Romanism , now high-church , now low-church feeling , has been , in the rotation of Government , the sign either of political loyalty or of disaffection . An undefined thirst of civil freedom whetted the early zeal for religious

      reforms . The u Grand Rebellion , " as it has been called , with more propriety and significancy than they who coined the phrase imagined , was occasioned at least as much by ecclesiastical as by political discontents ; and fears for the Church more than for the State produced the Revolution of 1688 , in which Englishmen overleaped the prejudices of centuries , and welcomed maxims and principles , which , as soon as they were established , were surveyed by many wno had be « n instrumental in their establishment , with surprise and alarm .

      All the subsequent national events have been nearly or remotely connected with religious opinions and feelings , and have exercised no small influence upon the temper of religious parties . The American and French Revolutions , in particular , led men to look at first principles , and excited novel speculations with regard to the origin of power and the utility of social institutions . These explosions of opinion and feeling separated Englishmen for a time into two great parties ; the one desirous of change in the hope of improveval

      ment , the other frightened at innovation as the sure road to anarchy . Both parties have at letfpi' ^ v&i w ^ MiQititihriixed ; there to no inter between them ; and on each side may now be seen at work the opposite influences of former states , of mind . The classification of the religious world is thus become a work of no little

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      On The State Op Religious Parties In England.

      ON THE STATE OP RELIGIOUS PARTIES IN ENGLAND .

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      THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY And REVIEW .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/1/