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von and Cornwall ; ^ nor can we doubt that such an appeal to benevblenbe and justice was eminently successful . The inquirieshere made are , 1 st , Upon what ground the apostles , or first preachers of the gospel , were entitled to a maintenance :. 2 dlyv How far the preachers of the gospel in the present day are entitled to a like support ?
Wherever semces are performed ; and more especially when to the detritRentofthe agent , there is always a claim to compensation from the party benefited . Upon this acknowledged principle of equity among mankind , the apostle Paul grounds his claim to maintenance in his apostolic character ; and upon this principle Mr . K . ably and candidly urges the claim , not
merely as it regarded the apostles , but as it respects all who devote themselves to the Christian ministry : at the same time , he loudly protests against their being maintained in riches and affluence , and likewise against men ' s being compelled to eon * tribute to them , by the force of human laws . His reasoning is worthy of the consideration both of those whb plead for opulent ecclesiastical endowments , and of such as condemn all
public religious instruction which is not perfectly gratuitous . It is matter of common observation , that the salary of even the best-supported Dissenting Minister does not exceed what is paid to the principal clerks in a merchant ' s counting-house ; nor indeed is it possible for the conscientious and enlightened services of the teacher of religion to be measured by any pecu niary compensation whatever .
Mr . K . appears , m sermon the thirty-fifth , as the eloquent opponent of ^ persecution for religious opinion . " In a discourse , which he preached and printed , not long after the Birmingham riots , but which , we are sorry to add , has no place in the present volumes , he had already signalized himself in the same honorable warfare ; and , surely , the preacher of the gospel never acts more in character , than when he stands forth
the champion of toleration and evangelical charity , the determined foe of that bigotted and malignant spirit which is the parent of confusion and of eyery evil work ! The text now insisted upon is selected from the parable of the marriage-supper ( Luke xiv . 23 . cc And the Lord said , " &c . ) and Mr . K . after well explaining what bur Lord means by the
term compel , takes occasion to shew that to employ force for the defence of truth , or for restraining error , is unjust ; jthat it cannot answer the purposes expected from it ; apd that it is productive of great evils to mankind , and inconsistent wit ^ ithe spirit of the gospel . Under the third of these heads , he writes with more than usual animation , and . draws a most impressive picture of the sufferings of the victim of persecution :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/37/
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