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fery few , if any , professing Christians , so depraved as to enforce by their practice , that the observance of a Christian Sabbath , for the purposes of rest from the cares and business of the world , and for the assembling to worship the Almighty m spirit and in truth , so far from being a Christian diity »
" an error of a very pernicious tendency—a groundless institution of predicted superstition /* I further hope and believe , that there are very few even amongst the Evansonians , who compel their servants to work on the Sabbath as on Other days , or who will not permit them to follow the pernicious error of worshipping God in public , and of perusing or
cc yawning over a book of piety and devotion in priviate /* Wtrat a pity is it , that any professing Christian should pleads for a theory which ( to his honour be it spoken ) he refutes by his practice , and that he should strive to argue himself out of what he feels to be both a duty and a privilege . Oct . 14 , 1806 . A Plain Christian " .
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Society for promoting church uwton in the diocese of st . david ' s . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository ' . Sir ,
Agreeably to the wish of your Correspondent Gogm ago ^ I send you some information relating to the society lately formed by some of the leading church-going people of the Diocese of St . David ' s . And be it known to you , in the first place , that it has been for a long time the crooked and narrow policy of the English government in regard to the principality
to wish to suppress the Welsh language , by discouraging the printing of Welsh Bibles , and promoting Englishmen to Welsh bishoprics and Welsh benefices . This miserable policy however has not answered , but on the contrary has eventually contributed to defeat its own object , by alienating the minds of thfc serious Dart of the inhabitants from the Church , and increasing
the number of Dissenters in a proportion far beyond what is the case in any part of England . The Welsh translation of the Bible is so excellent as to be inferior perhaps to none in
Europe ; and yet Welsh Bibles have often been exceedingly scarce ^ so that none were to be had for any money ; and the years of scarcity since the reformation are said to have been many more than the years of plenty . For the Bibles which the Welsh could get for a long period ^ and which-constituted but a very scanty supply , they appear to have beeii much mom beholden to the liberality of the " Society for promoting Chris-
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Society for promoting Church Union * 58 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/23/
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