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yet to learn to be the right of ignorant teachers . He should have furnished a scale of ignorance by which the fitness of teachers is to be weighed : so many degrees of theological ignorance , for instance , beneath Lord Sidmouth , to
constitute incapacity . Accuracy , Jiere , would still depend upon the degree in which his lordship ' s religious knowledge is estimated . For ourselves , not rating this
active peer very high , we should not fear the exclusion of many men from the ministry , if the minimum of capacity were set much below his lordship ' s
standard . In the Barrister ' s objections to the misnamed ' Evangelical * doc . trines we concur ; and we approve of his attack on the Articles of the Church of England , as the source of Methodism . The following paragraph is excellent :
"Wea / c fcftentimfes referred , when all other dfefence fails , to the Fathers of the- * Church . There , is something , indeed , venerable in this appellative ; its association is parental , and disposes the mind instinctively to a feeling of reverence . But vve must not deliver over
our judgment to tfcedominion ° * sound . The Father of the Christian Church is its Founder . I know of no other legi timate line of pedigree through which it can be traced . The compendiums of religious opinions , whatever attestation
they bear , whether of Fathers or Councils , are of no weight , not the slightest - ^ -except in A * far as they accord with that system of moral truth , whose testimpny i $ < eternal . All public formularies of faith are , to speak in the mildest terms of them , suoerfhious . To consult terms of themsuperfluous . To consult
, the articles with-the gospel before us , is to V ^ k * n tn realms of light with a darfc JUntfejorn , / irpp . g 6 9 97 . , \ . Towards the conclusion . * - *> f his patwpfelet , the Barrister expresses his Admiration of Mr . Lancaster ' s
liberal plan of education , and his disapprobation pf the pew scheme "VI A * , % ' ? - ' Wrf » ^ JfL ' -J f ^ wv , } . *'• 1
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that is foolishly and presumptuously styled , which of necessity is confined to a part , and a minor part , of the nation . is he not aware that the MethoHisis are the main supporters of Mr . Lancaster , and that tht new clerical institution is secretly designed for his own avowed object , the stoppage of the current of Methodism ? As the Barrister has not
condescended to correct any of the errors which we have before pointed out in his work , we are not much encouraged in our attempts to set him right ; but for the sake of such of our readers as are also
his , we cannot forbear stating that the author of 6 t The Light of Nature pursued , " was not " the celebrated Dean Tucker , " ( p . 135 .
rlote ) but Abraham Tucker . Esq . of Beach worth Cuxtle ^ near Dorking , Surrey : of whom and his work an account mav be seeq in Mr . Eindsey ' s Historical View of the Unitarian Doctrine ^ pp . 404 —435 .
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Art- III . Ignorance of the Day of our Death . A Sermon preached at Slourhridge , on occasion oj the sudden Retooval of Mr . Phxzbt Swain ^ mho died February 14 , 1811 , in her 7 \ st year . By the Rev . B . Carpenter . 8 vo . pp . 23 . Belcjier , Birmingham . Is .
The , design of this discoursqis to shew that $ ur g // pr 9 '' £ e of the day of our dcythtib Q . rperciful dispensation of Pfovidtnoe . This inte . resting Jopjc ^ r well handled ; and
the preach ££ 4 bas in o | qr juOypient sa ^ sfacjtoriIy ( lvsta , V ; hsl ^ d t / je pro - pobitiqp wjjth wiiich he sft-out . He hftfA jcit ^( Wfla ^ exanri pH ^ j » n ^ put ^ son ^ te cas ^ , , which gijtp / his serixvpft fy \ air ^ 9 ng i ^ al ^ ty , and , if vy ^ mpy u ^ ^ . woif j , a strike
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Carpenter ' s Funeral Sermon for Mrs . Swain . 323
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/43/
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