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though they may be golden ones * pdoiinands our admiratiott . We commiserate the case of him whose " poverty , but not Ms will , consents" to remain silent , though dissatisfied , in aq , Antichristian Church , As to the volunteer who , not content with having * spoken in the ear , in closets , " comes Forth to •* proclaim on the house-top ** how much his belief is at variance with his profession , hjs conduct can hardly fail to exciie ^ ntixi > eqts of disgust in every considerate mind . We look
back for relief to our Jebbs and W&kefields , who sacrificed to principle the attachments of youth and the hopes of manhood , amd , like the patriarch , * went out not knowing whither they % ent / 9 trusting a provision for their future subsistence f
f f With God * who call'd theiri , in a lanA ui * kx * qwr * . ' I am aware that the Rector of Cold Norton" is not the first clerical bondman who , like the Roman slave during the Saturnalia , has claimed the privilege for one day to be merry irekh hi& superiors . The Church of ' England has seldom been without some " foe of her own household , " who > while " eating heir bread , ' could " lift up the heel against her . ** Yet 3 I& ^ b of the worl d might preaoh to su ^ h churchmen . Prior gives them this sage advice , which he qhuses piits into the month of a
mountebank—# Mind neither good , nor bad , nor right , nor wroijg , Butr eat your pudding , slave , and hold your tongue ; *• to which the Poet has added the following pvobatum—* l A rev ' rend Prelate stopp-d his coach and six * To laugh a little at our Andrew ' s tricksy But when he heard him give this golden rule , f Drive on , ' he cried ; * this fellow is no rbol ,
I have somewhere read of a Pope who ^ while receiving his revenues , exclaimed to his attendants , How profitable is this fable af Jesus Christ ^* A pepper-corn will secure a right equally with the largest rental : thus the emoluments of a humble rectory may be acquire ^! or retaiqed on a , s false pretences as the patrimony of St . Peter , Our Pope was so un- * hiippy as to disbelieve the religion of the gospel . The Rector of Cold Norton has happily detected those corruptions by which that religion is debased an $ perverted in his own Athanasian church . Yet the infidel Pope and the Unitarian Rector agree
to derive advantages , however unequally , iroiQ the pro / e&sidn of a faith which they despise , though each can drop the mask for a moment . How either could describe himself , with Paul in our author's title-page ^ as < c not walking in craftiness , but commending h ) TOseljt to every man ' s conscience / ' I am at a lost
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59 % Unitarian Mmisters in a Trinitarian CkUrck *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/32/
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