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    idfi'tfeq ^ VHintsi . ^ This salw would spcowj * a > t he end . no c * coptiory _ to Aiaicderance ; , for whatever -a man -does ^ nut behove ; he pronountes hMeticalvimd whatever be regards to he hectical , he deems anti

    moaraL The Papist objects to * Ke < system ; < xf the Protestant ,. . the Protestant to that of the Papist ; the Calvinist objects to the system of the Unitarian , the Unitarian to thatbf the Calvinist , on the ground of a supposed i mm oral tendency . No one of these sects admits the

    charge u ){ immorality ; but any one of them in power , might , on the Barrister ' s principle , take it up as a pretext for persecution . The result of the argument is , that every degree of legislative interference with religious opinions is an infringement of liberty ,

    which , according to the iust dewhich , according to the just definition of the philosophical Roman historian , consists in the privilege of thinking what you will , and of Sj 5 c&king what you think . We Lave from ffoe first , obseFved

    an inconsistency in the c * Hints . " " Evangelical preacliing ' isdescribed as the disease of the times ; and yet no remedy is proposed , except with regard to the dissenters , though the * ' I lints * ' themselves

    shew that they are not the only religious body infected with it . Suppose for a moment , that the Barrister ' s pamphlet should prevail u £ > on the legislature to resume trie - feences ( let the Barrister have his owr > word ) granted to

    evangelical dissenting ministers } andihat every Calvirustic meetinghouse Were shut up ; " how little xvoujd be Hone towards suppressing titi 6 ' ' systemf nt which so much alarm is taken ! Parish-cliurchcs ahd chwp ( i ! js of case , wquld still

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    , ech o > ; wit& . - # t £ bp ; ; 4 fNPteinc 3 pf gfW , ibemnfz qS the ^ spliced . cUssc ^ tei -Sc ^ Aku-la ¦ €$ ** $ . t ^ fi i ' r ' jjwQ . ciple § inta tlie , rcipwh ; ^ aiid . fjie . evangelical ,. ; c , Ie , vgy , . wiih , ^ lis accession of strviigth , would , be , ¦ coiijc infinitely mpre formj cl ^ ble than the -Barrister himself . can ' how deem them . Nothing wo \\] d- be gained by the plan proposed ; nay , thesuppresaiott of tlie methodistsfiu cludi ng under that term all the evai >

    gehcal dissenters ) without the suppression of the methodistic clergyt would , in . all probability hasten the ecclesiastical revolution which his intended to prevent . To be consistent , our author should

    recommend the exclusion of Calvi ^ ists from the church of England ; tliat is , the exclusion of the only men who believe the articles and creeds of the church : though we verily suspect that the Barrister bears no

    greater good will than we ourselves ^ to those creeds and articles ; and that if be thougFit it prudent to developq his wholescherpeat oncc > hft would propose , that they . should be x if pot akolisbed , at least newmodelled .

    We have carefully looked over thisThifd Fart of the \ Hints , ; ' for a correction of thecurious blunder which we pointed put ijH ourrevie \ f of the Second Part , concerning the * Committee of DeputiiV but we find- the attthop tuo . much in

    efnga ^ ed the . pursuit pf the immorality of the Methodists , to do an act of CQminoii jiisticc to the Dissenters . , . It is now pretty well known flmf the BaVristcr ^ is Mr . Sctigwlck , - ' who w » s ^ lately announced in ' tfce ' -feaictte / v as - baVing succeeded to n ' kj ' cmttvfe ' place in tb « excise . oQice . in ScptUwjU- « * iil $ t . . . "'

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    4 MB . Review—Hifitp ^ oti .. gm tlgelie&f -Preaching *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/34/