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" Dissenting brethren /* ( ironically so called , I presume ); But he seems not to know that the Dissenters have travelled into a region where ecclesiastical canons and acts of Parliament
cannot reach them , and where few ecclesiastics are able or willing to follow them—namely , the sure ground of Scripture . He pursues them with the hue and cry of schism , and heresy , ancj sedition . He should have substantiated the last charge , by adding , in ancient , loyal , and therefore , according to his own argument , just language ^ that they have set up another King ^ one Jesus . He declares also , that he warns and rebukes
them cc m the spirit of ldve and charity / ' If he expect them to believe that such is his spirit , he must suppose that they h&ve the same doting fondness for a bishop that the Muscovite women are said to have for their husbands , and estimate the love which is borne them by the blows they receive * If he believe it himself , it must be on the old , hereditary ,
ecclesiastical ^ and therefore , again , true principle , that destroying men ' s bodies is tenderness to their souls . " The Gospel in onehand , ^ says an author to whose authority churchmen will not demur ( the Author of the Whole Duty of Man ) ,, u and a sword in the other , has made many slaves , but , I fear , few Christians . ' ^ What success , then , can the Bishop of St . David ' s lock for
in his warfare , wben he carries and brandishes the sword ^ but leaves tKe Gospel behind ? If , however , he warns the Dissenters in love , let him impute it to the same temper and desi gn that Ij a Dissenter , warn him ^ that the Dissenters are not to be cajoled by ptofessions , unaccompanied by act # , of kindness , deluded by flimsy sophistry , or beaten down with absurdities , however monstrous , or terrified by insinuations of the latent
powers of the church , and threats of her vengeance . The theological writer ( let him be bishop or presbyter , or what he will ) that wishes to gain their attention , must speak to them in the language which they understand—the language of the New Testament . If he wishes to convince thein , there is but one way by which he can affect their minds—that of sober ^ legitimate , modest argument .
I should now proceed ta make some remarks upon a few par- , ticular assertions and arguments of this worthy successor of Horsley ; brat foreseeing that they will occupy several pages , I think : it fetter to reserve them for another letter . I never tire in the Exercise of my pen or tongue ^ but in the use of
each I sonietirbes find that I tire others . 1 am particularly apt , am told , to be loquacious and diffuse on ray favorite topic of the imprescriptible right of private judgment . I had bpen talking earnestly on this very subject , a few weeks ago , to a member of a religious denomination not very eminent for it %
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4 £ 8 JBp . Burgess ' s Principles *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/36/
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