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    We rejoice that men , like Dr . Mar « h , will proclaim , ** that dissenters of every description should , for conscience * sake , be tolerated . * ' Toleration , in tlje month of a Christian , is a

    strange word : if we could not toferate our brethren , how should we be disciples of a master who has given a decided mark by which his followers should be known , namely , th-t they should toVe one another . We will not

    only tolerate Dr Marsh , but we assure him , that we will not envy him aiiy wealth or honour , which his sect can confer upon him ; we will applaud him in all liberal proceedings ; we will B « ver be displeased with any fair and honourable means which he employs for the support of his cauce . —Dr . Marsh has attacked the liberal mode

    of education introduced by Mr . Lawcaster and adopted in many paitsjzf the kingdom . ; and he cannot be content unless the doctrine of his sect is tacked to it * . Another object of attack has presented itself to his imagination , and he has commenced his warfare in

    another field . The University of Cdm-% ridge has a correspondence with all England , and a subject discussed in . its senate cannot fail to become generally known in every part of the country . On this account , Dr . Marsh has very prudently addressed the members

    of the Senate , and , in a Letter , called upon them to examine the nature and views of the Bible Society , lately established in the" metropolis , and supported with great success by voluntary subscriptions , from both dissenters and members of the established sect . —The

    complaint against the Bible Society , is of a similar nature with that agaiust the Lancastrian schools . The Kible Society distributes only bibles , whereas there aretwovei * y extensive Societies m the established sect which distribute not only bibles , but the common

    prayer books and other books writteu on the principles of the sect . Of these societies , one amounts to about five thousand members , no one being admitted itito it , as Or . Marsh informs the University , without testimony of his attachment to the constitution in

    sect and state ; but he very candidly states , that the Bible Society is much inore numerous , but it consists of tike sectmen and dissenters indiscriminately $ and equality of power and interest between th 6 two patties is the ayowed

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    basis on which this modem society i £ buill . In this constitutional . equality , there is evident danger , the Doctor contends , that the pre-eminence ot the established sect should l ? e gradually forgotten , ai » d finally tost . He exho ; t «* the . sect to consider , whether it is prudent to augment the power of such a society , by throwing into its

    scale the weight of the establishment . He suggests , that his sect can have no guarantee , that other objects , inimical to it , will not , in time , be associated-with the main object . He argues , that the constitution of the modern Bible Society gives an -imrpor- ^ tance to the dissenting interest , which otherwise it never would have

    obtained . And he contend ? , that , if the members of his sect injure , or eveii neglect to support it , small , will ?> e the compensation by tl > e distribution of bibles in foreign parts . If this sect , the doctor modestly observes , professes Christianity in its purest form , its downfal will be an irreparable loss not to this nation ouly , bat to the whole world : and we will put another if to this learned doctor . ; if your sect

    does not profess Christianity in its purest form , I > r . * Marsh , cannot be better employed than by using ^ his eudeaVours to bri »» g it to the standard ot the scriptures . —The doctor's Letter to the University-has produced a donation to the old s > cieti ' s , and excited a considerable sensation , wht £ h tended * however , to the bene t of £ he Bible Society . A very large oody of men , both in the estab iahed sect and out of it . -

    begin to be sensiolc . that Christianity was not made for this or that sect and ip be meiely a p _ ol ticul eng-ne ~ . They are convinced that Christ died not for } this or that people , hut for the whole human race , and that it 19 the duty of evtry Christ an to extend the influence , of our beloved SuViOUi * to the utmost of

    his power . With respect to the thr © socctjes , as f < tr as they are will . n ^ ' . to promote gospel truths , we wish ihcra ail well ; we wish them God speedy id the name of the Lord . But we have something to say . gainst them all Wft fc makes you so : enacious of the Eng lj sli

    Translation ? Why is it ^ th't when such great improvements have been made id Sci'iptiii ' c criticis ., " when manuscr . pts have been examined , and sbjpure a tcxi has been given tq the public , ' both of tile Hebrew and the Greek srctfpturtfs ; Whjr ft

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/59/