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Art. Ill, —A'Letter To Theliev. Dr. Beil...
cussions with papists , but in their contests with each other the max- im is continually forgotten . The tenets advanced in the ser-
mon are maintained in this letter . The whole is written with great dignity , and due respect to his spiritual superior . In fact , the tenets in the sermon are nothing
to the argument ; -for whether he protests boldly against some lead- ing points of the faith of the church of tngland _, or expresses only , like the Bishop of Lincoln , his dissent from one of them , his argument is
Art. Ill, —A'Letter To Theliev. Dr. Beil...
the sarrie ; namely , that he is to obey God rather than _* nan ; he is to look to the scriptures for his instructions , not to the articles . So striking a publication has not for many years ms . de its appearance ; and it is singular enough that both Mr . Stone and the Bishop
were on the same side about forty years ago , when they endeavoured each to obtain a reform on the subject of subscription to the artitles . AMICUS . *
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Art . IV . —The Danger of reading Improper Books . —A Sermon , preached in the Rev . John _Goode's Meeting , at a Monthly Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches in London . Oct ., 8 , 1807 . By the Rev . John Clayton _^ jun . Svo * pp _, 44 . Black and Co .
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The subject of this discourse is of considerable importance , and at the same time not entirely without its difficulties _. It is therefore de- sirable ' that the person who enters on the discussion of it should be distinguished by the extent of his information , the liberality of his mind , and the soundness of his judgment . Whether these cha- racteristics are discoverable in the present attempt must be dctermin- _cd by a fair examination of it .
The design of the preacher ap- pears in part to be entitled to ap- probation ; and the reader will find some observations on the mischief arising from an indiscriminate pc- ruscil of the trash of our circulating libraries , which are just and ra- lional . But we are sorry to add , . *• 1 1- ufthediscourse other _parts fioundv not that will ed I he in _be merelybigotwhich a _attach men t stern toasy denomin _" auth . 01 choosos _parities ite ofe \ angelic thepec a _ilsoalanre > _j _bu _. t testimony , porn on _gc _jlkjj-u ' . _jii
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of that dread and hatred of free inquiry , that anxiety to perpetuate ignorance amongst the mass of the people , and to prevent the least ray of knowledge from entering the mind by blocking up all its avenues , and that earnest endeavour to keep religion in the hands of the priest and the magistrate , which have characterised the most corrupt periods of amicbristiah dtrkness . In the first head of the discourse ( p . 67 ) we are told that "it would be _wy _^ ung for an indhidual
* Our readers will , we are persuaded , feel , with us indebted to o _* r correspondent for this ingenious and _intcrcst-^? f _^ _^^ _fe % f _^ scc t _' question 01 Mr . Stone s conduct thechurchfullydiscussed are referred in to his own letters in pository _, which contain the the the pamphlet 52 % , 5 (> 5 and here 647 5 reviewedy and _vol also . * . P . l 39 lowing papers , viz Vol m * 6 59 * _™> jyi . vol . a , p Monthly Re _~ substance of vol ii . pp _, to the fol-. 490 , and y and 634 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/37/
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