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    for protecting the civil rights of the Dissenters , have for their object the < rreat privileges of burial in consecrate tl oround , and with the use

    of the ritual of the church of England . Ought the deputies to take up such cases ? But it' dissenters in common be charged with ridiculous inconsistency in this mortuary conformity i Unitarian

    dissenters , in the same circumstances , have to answer for a violation of principle as well as of decorum . The office of burial is strictly Athanasian ; and shall he who

    has boldly refused , in spite of temporal penalties , to worship more than one God while living , go to his grave when dead , under the patronage of a plurality of Gods ? Were the gleaner a priest

    of the established church and as such called upon to perform trinitarian rites over the body of an avowed Unitarian , he would be prompted at the conclusion of the strange service to take up the taunt of the funereal poet .

    11 Men may live fools , fcut fools they cannot die ' . ' The burial service of the church of England is one of the most objectionable of her forms . Many of her own ministers have felt the

    grievance of performing , and 'acknow ledged the immorality of pretending to approve it . It is a well known fact , that Archbishop Sancroft ( a conscientious non-juror , and high enough in reason in points of faith , )

    was so dissatisfied with this ofiice of burial , that he declared to Archbishop Tiliotson , that his scruples on this score had been the caube of his never taking on him a cure of souls .

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    No . XIV . J / r . Pitt panegyrized hy Mr . Clark son . Mr . Pitt was a speech maker , and could declaim as well upon the enormities of the slave trade asupon the horrors of Jacobinism . His

    eloquence in behalf of the African » , in the years 17 £ ) 0 and 179 * 2 , captivated both his friends and enemies . Hut why it may be asked , did lie not use his almost irresistible influence to abolish the

    evil he so pathetically deplored ? Was he strong only on the side oi tyranny and aggression ? It must be a . subject of melancholy reflection to his admirers to think , that

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    No . XIII . Glory of God reflected from Hell . Pres . Edwards published a sermon on the justice of God in the

    damnation ot sinners . This was a bold subject , but the following passage outdoes it . Here , not God ' s goodness , but his jnerciless ness , is his glory . It is taken from Reynolds ' s Inquiry concern - ing the State and Economy of the angelical World , quer . xxxix . p .

    303 . If any reader wishes not to be made to shudder , let him pass over this article . « So high and great , so incomprehensibly supreme is he ( God ) , that ten thousand times ten thousand most

    miserably tormented spirits shall not in the least be pitied or regarded by him to all eternity . Ten thousand times ten thousand most doleful sighs , and shrieks , and groans , and yell ings , and roarings , and howlings , under the most exquisite tortures and anguish of spirit , shall not

    meet with ihe least pity or compassion to all eternity ! O the dignity of that being , who has an everlasting hell to be the representation or triumph of his grandeur ! There he rides in magnificent :, though gloomy state , and marches over a world of damned heads , with most uncommiserating disregard and disdain . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/27/