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Queries To The Editor Of The Monthly Rep...
hands , and afterwards they were brought to the reading of the New Testament , would not this conduce very much to the prevention of false notions ? Tenth . —In the teaching the doctrines of the New Te _& tament would
it not be useful to print the gospel of Mark , adding such _patter from the other gospels as would furnish a complete and just knowled ge of the life and character of Jesus Christ ? The intelligent reader will at once discern the reason why I mention Mark ' s gospel in preference to the rest .
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FREE AND CANDID Dl SaUISlTIONS AMERICAN LITURGY To the Editor of the Monthly Repository Sir , ' Since t read the account of the cc Free and Candid Disqui * sitions , _" in your Repository ( p . 348 _3 ) I have often designed to communicate a few additions on that subject . With your leave I may yet be in time to cast my mite into your present _volume .
The first edition of the Disquisitions appeared in 1749 . During that and the following year they occupied many pages of the _^ Gentleman ' s Magazine _^ then the favourite vehicle of liberal discussion . One of Mr . Urban _' s correspondents indeed gravely objected _^ ( and the race of such objecto rs is by no means extinct , ) that any alteration in the forms and articles of the Church would be a violation of the QC Act of Union / ' which
provides _, that the _" Act of Uniformity should remain and be in _fullTorce for ever . The _Disqwisitors were ably defended in various letter _^ and in a humorous dialogue between Mr , Allworthy and Mr . Western , entitled a Chapter that is not printed in the History of Tom Jones _^ containing curious
observations on a subject which ihe reader perhaps does not suspect . * ( G * Mag . xix . 547 . ) I have a copy of the second edition of the Disquisitions ; on a blank leaf of which , a former possessor of the book has preserved , from the columns of a newspaper , two anonymous letters upon the subject of religious liberty and ecclesiastical reform . In the first , which from circumstances must have been
written before 1710 , is the following passage : — " Somewhat less than a score of years ago , when some cdndid Disquisitors made their appearance it was deemed the favourable hour so long expected was come . Aud certain it is , that they had the secret wishes , and the open rotes and _encouragement , of many respectable characters and dignitaries in the church ) as well as out of it . But the time was not come ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/24/
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