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sition of the sense of them set forth bv ecclesiastical authority r are two ! distinct , not to say opposite , considerations ; and it would have been happy if our retormers and if Dr . Marsh had
discriminated between them . The history of the origin , progress and establishment of confessions offaith , is a curious and very interesting topic * Our limits oblige us to refer , on this head , to th ^ t mas te rly performance the Confessional ^ Which ,
we , trust , the present disquisitions of the Margaret Professor will occasion to be more generally read . The r ^ jforrb ejte i n Germany and Switzerland dr&wL : up articles of their belief in consequence of their adversaries reproaching them
wiih having discarded the peculiar doctrines ' of Christianity . Ita E ngland the Reform atio n proceed - ed under the jealous eye of the reigning sovereigns , who , as is well- known , transferred to West * minster the infallibility which they denied to the see of Rome . We
thus perceive that subscription to breeds among protestants had its l 7 Be in secular itietiVesy and in human passions of not the most evangelical complexion : and we learn from the several contrbvdr *
sies which it has produced that , scripturaltyy and agreeably to the genius and principles of our sepa * ration from the Papal church , it cannot be defended . ... . <¦ 24 . cf If the liturgy is net > wantecj , why do churchmen now obicct to therc- ^ ligiotts instruction of Mr . Lancaster ? . Mi * . l ^ ncaster 1 adopts the Bible , and the Bi * - XAc ^ dUrrieS ^ ' M - i > J v . i ; j * J / j ^ - ;'« : i
' DK M . is consistent with hi m * ttfffti ;? mt&aut f % ilife . tasfe * f Mr . Lancaster , on wl ^ icb & $ h ^ y ? already offered , and perhaps ^ ay ag ^ in 9 ^ , ^ m opppon * But wliekfifo « ^ j 4 m tMt this calurj ? T
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niated and highl y valuable maa hiets ( ic wandered to the devious passage where Christian * ity Stselfi becomes ^ Ao § t , from , the view ?* ; Whkt infailibility belong * to ., ( he pi ^ seht Mair ^ at ^ t-Professor qC J ) i | vini ^( B that hfi ^ jhodiid pfbnounce so uuhesUating and so unfavourable a decision I ^ As the
advocate 6 f the Bibl ^ > Mr . Lancaster will be rem ^ ni ^ e ^ fl bjr a far distant posterity ; and his Christianity , both speculative and practical , ' may , not improbably stand the test of a comparison with that of his ( inconsiderate , shall we say » 6 runkind ?) accuser . Ourauthfdr
does well to ** descend from' an € allegory ** in which Christian Ghaftfrty C 4 becomes lost ?? from his sight . - - i ; .. v .
29 , * 3 O- He acknowledges that the operations of the Bible Society abroad f < are not only unobjection able , but highly laudable . ^ ' We add , that these are its most
essential and useful effects , . and , as may easily be supposed , its costliest . - The extent and magnitude of the' labours of the society in this field , are even such as to require the united pecuniary aid of all classesjof Christians . Its services *
however , are not confined , to foreign nations . Were it inactive at home , it might be reproached , plausibly enough , perhaps justly , witji i bestowing oil strangers the whole of that attention , a share in which is needed by numbers of 6 ur conntryitaen . " v
¦ $ q . Protcstanta of tvmf description , hbWte ^ cr y&riotit iwsui even oppmtiU in their opinions , claim severally for them * sclye * the honour of deducing from the Bible ' irrefragable and indubitable consequences . V * u . ., ; .
This has the apjpeara , nccJ off a sneer on the part of Dr . M&rsh .
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^ 66 Review *— -Marsh and Clatte on the * Bible Society
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/52/
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