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46 3 rdly . It would be in effect to declare , that such accusations may be presented , and recorded , in indefinite terms , to the manifest encouragement of tale-bearing ' and detraction ; and that their ostensible authors are , contrary to a positive rute ,
under no obligation to make known their informants , nor to explain their accusations , however vag-uely or obscurely expressed , nor to inform the persons they accuse , whether they themselves believe those doctrines , they are censuring- their brethren for not holding
u 4 thly . It would also be , like the church of Rome in former times , to set up a claim to infallibility , by declaring , jn effect , that the Yearly Meeting Epistles were-too sacred to be criticised or examined—that it was useless and pernicious , to point out even such inadvertent errors , as may be found in them , and might justly incur the penalty © f djsownment .
u 5 thly . It would be equivalent to declaring ^ that , in your judgment , no member of the Society , ecclesiastical officers « xcepted , ought in future , openly to profess or aid " in propagating- " such " opinions' * aa he may believe were held by the most approved authors in the Society ,
from a careful perusal of their works , but must , if he would avoid the danger of -disownment , suppress his own convictions of truth , and inquire of the overseers of -the Meeting * he happens to be a member of , what he may profess without giving ©{ fence , and what he must keep to himself—how he is to understand the authors
lie peruses—what works he may purchase , and in . what manner—whether he may disperse , or g-ive away such works , as he Judges may be useful in the promotion of piety and virtue— -or , whether he may , by the serious use of that understanding given him of God , deduce for himself in the best manner he can , the sense of particular texts of scripture , or whether he is hound to receive their construction of difficult
texts , contrary to > his own conscience and judgment ? . ¦ ' Lastly , it would be to decide that , according to your judgment , a belief of all that Christ is recorded in the scriptures to
have taught , concerning himself and his doctrines , is not a sufficient profession of Christian , faith , to entitle a person to a continuance of membership in the Society of Friends , although it has never thought fit to establish a creed . Pp . 334 , .. 335 .
Art- V . A Seiynon oil the Use of Reason in Religion , preached at George ' s Meeting-, Exeter , Dec . 18 , 1814 . By James Manning . 8 vo .
Pp . 28 . Bowring , l £ xeter . Is . WE have given &ri account [ x , 192—196 . ] of the late theological controversy at Exeter . This sermon was pveached in the midst of it , aiid appear * to us to have been
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admirably calculated , both to silence fcigotry and to encourage virtuous and free inquiry . It is serious and affectionate in its spirit , jmd at the same time bold and manly m its tone The scriptural illustrations are peculiarly happy . Coming from a gentleman of such a well-known catholic
disposition , respectable character and amiable manners , and so long looked up to among the Dissenters of the West , it must have had a healing and salutary tendency at Exeter , and may be r ^ commended as an excellent specific a gainst apathy on the one side , and intolerance on the other , in all places .
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£ 50 Review . —Manning , Trdvers , and Evans ' s Sermons .
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Art . VU . -Peace the Real Interest of ever ?/ Human Being . An Address delivered at Brighton , on Thursday , July 7 , 1814 , being the Day appointed for Thanksgiving on account of the Re-establishment of Peace . By John Evans , " A . M-8 vr > . r * Tv AA Sherwood aildO .
WITH his characteristic readi ness to improve every passing event to a moral and relig ious P ' pose , Mr . Evans delivered an Addr ^ to the good people of Brig hton , whew w »~
JIJC *^ Kl « llIl > C < U . IV M * i vr ** — j ing Day , on the subject of Peace ; fg at the request and charge of one oi ^ hearers , a stranger , he has n ^ ^ , it to the public . Mr . Evans has , i gotten , however , to state to whit " gregation the Address was denyci we presume that it was Hhe Vn **^ congregation . At the sawe & ** £ Christian auditory might hove w ^ it with pleasure .
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Art . VI . —The Sin / ulness of War , illustrated and enforced in a Discourse delivered before a Society of Christians of . the Unitarian De .
nomination , at their Chape ) in Southampton , on December the 18 th , 1814 , by Benjamin Travers , Southampton , Skelton , 8 vo , pp . 56 . rTIHE benevolent object of this
JL sermon is in the words of the author * ( p . 14 . ) to convince Christians that they " ought on no account whatever , let the temptation be eve r so great , to hire themselves , or suffer their children to hire themselves ,
if in any way they can prevent it , for the express purpose of carrying on offensive war . Alas ! how little chance is there of the still small voice of reason and humanity being heard amidst , the universal and perpetual din and clang of arms
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/50/
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