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of loyalty ; - and the song has hd £ n sung with ^^^ t equ ^ l sipceriity under every ^ i gn iW the time of King Saul to that of King
George III . Loyal songs and loyal addresses will r ^ ever be wanting in any country , where the prinqe has places and pensions to give as the reward of servility and adulation .
Adopting the above dutiful and affectionate form of shouting * Mr . Ivimey proceeds to state reasons why Protestant Dissenters should join in the general Jubilees shout : and , certainly , if he have not proved that they owe erery thing to the wisdom or justice of
the present king , he has succeeded in shewing , that their condition , compared with that of their fathers , is not a little enviable . The abstract of the history of Dissenters , presented to his hearers by Mr . Ivimey , is very judu cious . ' It abounds with free and
liberal and constitutional principles . Mr . I . abjures all persecution on account of opinions , and , with allowable pride , congratulates his own . denomination , the Baptist ^ , on having , always been the advocates of universal , full .
and equal religious liberty : may they never forfeit the honourable distinction ! may aeal for orthoto 1 ¦ •» I ' doxy never hurry them on to ask Help of the state against heretics may their horror of Socinianism
never be ^ r down their respect for the rights of conscience ! Undoubtedly , the relief which was granted to fMssenting
Ministers ft-opa Subscription to the articles of the Church of England , V ^ X W ^ 7 $ was a gre ^ pri TWe 8 R 5 feut we cannot allow to Mr . A . fhat" a $ gneyanqe ; remain ? . Subscription to the Bi-
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ble is something better in negative excellence than subscription | o the Book qf Common Prayer ; but though i £ should be right m a Christian to swear that he believes the Bible , " it , is obviously wrong in any one to require him so to swear ; and it is a question of expediency only , whether a man shall perform an action , in- *
different in itself , wjien it is attempted , by usurped authority , to compel him to the performance of it in other words , to deprive him of the right of private judgment and conscientious election .
To swear one ' s belief in the Bible ( " what an odd sound ! " as Mr . I . exqlaims , on using the expression * suffering for the sake of a good conscience , '' ) is , in an English court of law , to take an oath that one believes that the English authorized Translation is " the
revealed will of God—the rule of doctrine and practice , " At any rate , the form of the Declaration obliges the swearer to affirm this of the present Received Text of the Scriptures , which are described in it to be those of the Old
and New Testament , as commonly received among Protestant churches . " So that , if a Dissenting student should be convinced by the Eclectic Review , that the clause 1 John v . 7 . is an interpolation , he could not make the Declara
tion necessary to qualify him , according to Law , as a teaclieiy without insincerity and hypocrisy . We submit this to the considera * tion of the Dissenters , ofDj ^ qpting ministers , and of such of them especially as are before the public in the character of Jub ^ eepr ^ ach ^ rs * . Thinkipg well of ] R £ r * Ivjtuxey ' s serpaon , and wishing to reepm-
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Review . —Jubilee Sermons * —lw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/39/
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