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last ^ vtim ^ nt may probably be a poetic fiction , the first , that Rock against which ho power can prevail . ' ' ¦• . . / . ' ¦ •;• . ¦ > .- r .. Appeals have been made upon this subject to the liberal
scripttfr ^ l sentiments expressed by various enlightened . clergymen . These , however , must be rejected , as incompetent , witnesses , being themselves defaulters whose generous spirits were continually overleaping the narrow boundaries of f * the church by law
established /' It has been said , also , that the law of Elizabeth allows , but does not command , therbishp £ to deprive . We ajisWer , * th&t the constitution of the church demanded it , where the state had not" dipt the clergy ' s wings ,. "
" ? The haste witK which the sentence was at last pronounced was almost indecent . * The Bishop might also , without making a wry dangerous precedent , have fol
lowed a gr&texample , mitigai ^ a the fall of his erring brother , arid shewn that if his churc |> possessed aiot thir spirit'of CbriSti&n love , -he was not without it himself ;
When a clergyman , <* for refus--irig to take the oaths to the ' government soon after the Revolution * ha # forfeited his prebend in iheeWrch of Sarum , Bishop
Burnett * mit of his ofja income , paid r iim thb yearly Value of it during fa& life- ^ t 1 Bishop Potrteixs died after a few days illness , and was buried at Sundridge in Kent , a rural fesir . dKtae * to vfMfck hfc «* a& v ^ r ^ par * fiaH * # wlierte he tmd ^ mf > i y endowed ^ chapel . He has left
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behind Unrji |^] fLaxpi ^ ^ putatiori for propriety < 3 f conduct ^ eftevolei ^ ce to his clergy , and au tention to hi ^ episcopal duties . is
His nara ^; enrolled among the firmest WSfends of U ^ * oppressed Aff | S $ n ^ jpethaps he had more putrtf&iy ^ fidvpeate ^ their cause , but ifei- his early « ^§ nnection witBl a court which so long oppose ! the abolition of the slave-trade .
To the same cause , a disposition * too desirous of royal appro * bation , must ^ e , probably , attribute the coijclact of this prelate
in his legislate ve capacity . H « sat for more ^ than thirty years in the House of Peers ^ Durimg those years there occurred discussions in which the intejre § j ^ of mankind
were greatly concerned , and questions of war an ^^ ace were fre * quently d ^ t ^ rmi u ^ Yet during these years tbe Bi&op was seldom , SJ ever , found among those vt % 6 inquired if a proposed war were
necessary jpr whether peace could not be obtained . O ^ the contrary * it has been said , we fear justly , that he was found ^ * always voting with his Majesty ' s Ministers . * Loj ^ s spiritual , when a peer is tried capitals withdraw before
sentence , -emong other reasons , because there is an ancient canon forbidding ch ^ ychiifi en to decide 4 « in a # ase of Wood / ' Yet when
a qWjstign of war is determined ^ in which thousands must be slain they are , with very few , «* # <* £ >* » -tioflsij ^ ial ^ ayswfound in riiinisten ^ l > naajorities . Tfeis is surely to " ' strain out the gnat and swallow doyn thec ^ iiieL V ^
> 'jfcft ' flf * W ? ^^^^ ^ Jck $ u *| # « . ^ GA iu ? . awr-? f l&ttf ^^ ^
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* 38 Memoir of Betily Port ens , D . I > . i ' - i ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/8/
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