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toffnd , taken fast hold of the nation , aftt fif jfs saitf , tftttfin the cabinet those i ^ ho remain ed hostile to the emaucip&tfon / no longer intend to oppose it : &d that the uekt session of Parliament Wffl remove from our statute-book many of thbse disgraceful enactments , which proved that Protestants in parting with Poperir , retained too much
or its spirit . Happy would it be for th ^^ kingdom if the legislature in revising these laws , would examine also its own established religion , would see how far it is compatible with scripture 5 but if anti-scriptural tenets were expunged from the prayer-book and the articles of the established sect , may it not be dreaded that religion would
become still more a matter of form with multitudes than it is at present ? True Christianity , let it be impressed on our minds , is the worship of God in spirit ? pid in truth , witl ^ the heart and its affections . With this acts of Parliament have no concern , nor can
any one founc ? a claim to the heavenly citizenship upon terms prescribed by the state . At a dinner given to the bishop , at which were present the "chief nobility ant | gentry of Ireland , Catholic arid Protestant , the utmost cordiality Jfc vatf ^ dl and ' every speech' breathed Tne of ciliationThe master
* pivii con . " of the Rolls of Ireland particularly dis tinguisTied himself . He thanked God , that he had lived to see the day " n Veneraole prelates , the difference of wliose sects was lost in the identity of thjeir *' re ligion , assembled as the ^ sheplierdsof their respective flocks , ' * 6 \>
eyirigr tfce spirit ' of their respective missions , and' giving the force , of their united authority in favour of social affection ( and beiievqlehce . " Why , indeed , ! should the bishops of" the two sects be kept at such a distance as they have beeja from each other ? We agree witl * the Master of the Uolls , that the differeojee of their sects is lost in the
identity of their religion . They have exactly Jthe same creeds 5 the same clause of daijanii g every one who is nojt pf their sect , forms a part of the most solemn ( services in their places ot religious worship . And of what Jitile consequence is it , when both
parties have added to , the worship of the 0 ^ . only % vy * & God , tha ^ , of the ^ Trinity , a word unknown to the Scrip-
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* i tures , that one . party exceeds the othe ^ r . b ^ Having a nunaber of obj ects of subordinate wbr ^ nip , Union of the two sects is not so difficult as might be expected : at present a popish clergyman becomes an \ established clergyman .. without , fresh ordination , if he makes a certain recantation .
Let the popish bishops return the compliment , and allow to English orders a similar validity . The next step mi ^ ht be to let t he livings and bishopi * ick £ be in common to both parties ^ the common prayer-book be * iug u , sed in the places where it is now used , and the mass-book in the popish districts ; and it would be of great use to translate the latter , that the
conformity between the two books might be made striking . By degrees the mass-book and- the prayer-book would be carried indiscriminately by both parti e > to ; their ;^ aces of . worship , and their union would be complete * , Flattering as this union may be , a sad cloud has buvst over the clergy of the established sect . At the assizes hf York , a beneHced clergyman has been attacked on the score of
non-residencj ; at either of his two living's or hi ^ l pbend . Tbe jury , found a verdict Mfl&st him to the amount of between HPSffd seve ^ n hundred pounds ^ It is xhe . Ai ' st' trial un 4 er the late act for regulating the residence 6 f the clergy , and is likely to produce important effects on the value of ecclesiastical
property . Should the profane laity * in £€ r'fere in thW inauner in prescribing residence to their ministers , the next step may be to inquire farther into the duties to be per& > rmed by them . Wb& knows that in a short time it may not be required that every clergyman should be able to read his Bible in the
original languages ? And may not liviugs cease to bear a higher value because they are in sporting countries ? A , subject considered as of far greater importance has occupied the public mind . This is a dissolution of Parliament , a circumstance which
creates a lively sensation over the whole kingdom . f he parliaments were formerly called once ay ^ arj the idea of prorogation Was an innovation introduced iu the rdgn of ftenry the Eighth 5 and a fatal ^ t in the rei ^ n of George the First gave a permanent duration of ye yen years to the existing
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/60/
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