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The feet and the right , nevertheless are &uch * as he describes . It is
characteristic of a real Protestant to make and exercise : this claitn . Nor are we ignorant 6 f the use to which Catholics apply •; it : ; more consistent than the Margaret Pro . fessor , they hence infer the
necessity of a living ^ infallible interpreter . > 33 . c < Men become so enamoured of the Protestant in the abstract , that they abstract themselves from the Protestantism by law established " An unexpected spjecimen this of jthefigure paranomasia I Our
3 r uthqr * s play , pn the noun abstract and the verb . absirdct may be edifying enough to some student in composition ,. As to the matter of this sentence , surely , if it be the essence of Protestantism to deduce its conclusions immediately from the Bible , its establishment
by law is something extrinsic from its nature . Science and Protestantism and Rel ^ igioi ^^ re Science , Protestantism and Religion still , yiji ^ ybfff . th ^ y have or have not this establishment . ,
33 ; . tThe . hiptqry which Dr . Marsh judges proper to give of the abolition of the liturgy , during the ciyif wars in the last cen ^ tury but o ^ e ^ he ipay possibly have , inserted in consequence of his own fears : at any rate , it is not ill calculated to alarm some
elapses of his readers * , But whatever he may imagine , or wish others to imagine , there is a most important difference , tje T tween the state . of parties , * boith tween the stft ^ of parties , t boith
, political and religious , under the present day : and if in the reign of Gbtittft / tiii saiiie ; && m been w ^^^ m ^ Mmr
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dissentions which followed * wpuld either have been prevented
or considerably mitigated . Those feuds arose , in truth , from another cause and from the opposite quarter . Have we now a treacherous prince or a tyrannizing primate ? Or where shall we discover in these united kingdoms the courts of Star Chamber ^ nd High
Commission ? In confirmation of his opinion , Dr . M * . makes an extract from , Bishop Beveridge ' Sermon * on the excellency and usefulness of th ^ Common grayer . But if episcopal names < can weigh any thing in this discussion , those of
Tillpt ^ on and Seeker are assuredl y impbrferit . NbW our tfiitHolr concedes ( note , p . 46 ) that these apl parently justify thfe pra < cti (^ e of the modern ^ Bible'Society : and he had be ^ rV / ad ^ itte 4 ' ( 83 'that the argu - ments for the distribution of the
Bible albfte ard appdrently in the spirit of true Prdtestanti ^ m / - To ilTufettate the adselrtmh that the sectaries under the Commtinwoalth-were as numerous as the Inteftji ^ eiationfs « f thfe ifiible were
* a # b ^ ^ : WffiWM 3 * W * Tf , ^ ri « ces -A P 4 $ fi # g $ fwtp Dryden ^ i liiligw sLaki , © rydefti was a convert to popery . In lii ^ Hhidf and Panther , sayst « . Johnson , c < he reproaches the reformers with want of ? unity ; but is weak enough to
* This sermon * had passed through the twepty-cighth edition in I 7 a 8 » Inc Bishop ' s writings were numerous , rather weak . " We quote from Nobles cdrvtihuatibn of 6 frangdr 9 } ^ bf . iu ' gs , 93 . An anecdote is there giveri of which we 11
lcflve { tbe appliq ^ tipn , lo » our readers uS ' iTO ^^ fRW ^^ *^ - ^ " dary . btCwaterbury . objected to reading a brief in thccalnedral , as ' contrary * to the RubTlc / Till » t € on > eplicd , < Charity it ^ wtfRtfm ** " t ¦ ! J \ ' \ I' ' /{ ' . . ' " 1 i
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Rttoiew . < —^ Marsh and Clarke on the Bible Sq Ckty * 4 $ 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/53/
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