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that be , " though perhaps in doing so he makes long quotations from % " the judicious Hooker * , ' * and the revolution-hating : Burke * He that expresses in his sermbns a regard to the libers ty of the people , is put down for a politician ; he , the time- *
serving wretch , who is officious in declaring his contempt of the people , and his satisfaction at seeing them under " salutary restraint , '' that very people who have with the earnings of hard industry , fed him up to his burly size , and decked him out in his priestly habiliments ; he , to be sure , keeps within the province of the pulpit . The man that is honest enough to confess to God , and to urge upon his people our national sins , such as
the slave-trade , and our perjuries , ecclesiastical and civil , and our wars , and our boastings , is marked &s a political preacher ; but he is not a political preacher who * affronts heaven and insults mankind by praying and preaching up the piety of our rulers , the danger of any change , and the duty of € i considering our
own depraved hearts as the only source of our calamities , and the only proper object of our abhorrence . " Mieaiah prophesied politics , " odious politics , " to Ahab ; the " lying spirit ' relieved the other prophets from the same reproach .
I fear I shall tire you , Sir ; in apology for my prolixity , I have ? only to say , that I have long wished so state my sentiments orf this subject , and that your " caution / ' which I hope you do not consider me personally offended at , seemed to give me a fit opM portunity of gratifying my wishes . You will find , besides , as
you become acquainted with my character , that when once I am suffered to begin talking or writing , nothing is then farther from my thoughts than leaving off . I have often wondered at this peculiarity of disposition , which has risen up in me of late years , and seems I think to increase with my age . Perhaps it is to be accounted for from my having but recently recovered
my liberty of speech , after having my mouth locked up for such a length of time . I sometimes compare myself to the Spectator , of pleasant memory , who was dumb seven parts of his life , and tiresomely loquacious the remaining eighth ; and it is likely enough that your readers , good Mr . Editor , may serve you in my company , as the young Templar did his companion in the Spectator ' s at Jonathan ' s—that is , pull you by the sleeve , begging
you to come away , for that the old prig will talk you to death . * Sects as well as nations have their tutelar saints . Nations never part with their tutelary deities , and Dissenters do not sell their * s but for a good price . I have seen in my day several bargains of this sort . The " ever memorable Mr John Hales , of Eaton , " was , I recollect , at one time , the patron of this religious denomination . For some time M past they have been looking up very devotedly to " the judicious Hooker ; by and by we may expect , should the present ministry be permanent , they will dispose of the antiquated Bishop , an 4 set up again the justly beloved idol of their fathers , " the immortal Locke ! '
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Oh the Study of Politick 12 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/15/
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