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g-azine for January , 1816 , page 22 , talks of * The glaring" falsehood , horrible impiety , and dangerous tendency of the modern Unitarian system . ' What can this writer mean ? What do we believe that is so ghastly ? Do we indulg-e in a
religious fancy , and form , in an unbridled imagination , thing's at which reason and common sense revolt ? Are not our doctrines founded upon the express letter of Scripture 5 upon passages which we think are clear from figure ? Do we not
express our doctrines in direct scriptural language ? What if we say , that the Father is the only true God ; that , To us there is but one God the Father , that Jesus of Nazareth was a man approved of God , was made of God both Lord and Christ , that the Mediator between God and men
is the man Christ Jesus , —have not Christ and his apostles furnished us with this language ? And is this to be charged with glaring falsehood and horrible impiety , and with having * a dangerous tendency ? Nay : are they not truths which all
believe ? i Ah : ' says the opponent , ' bat you 4 onh believe other important articles of doctrine / Well 5 but as Unitarians , what we do not believe can make no part of the Unitarian system . Now if what we do believe , as far as it goes , is truth , surely what we do not believe cannot make the
truth we do hold impious and horrible . We advise , therefore , that every man take heed how he censures : many have been wrong . We would say , Refrain from condemnation : let that alone , lest haply ye be found to fight against GodS —Pp . 24—26 .
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England is not merely protected by the State ; she is united to it : and this oug-ht to be a security to the people , that they shall not be ruled by laws which are in direct hostility to the word and will of God—both to the letter of his law , and
the spirit of his gospel . It is impossible , I should hope , that any one of the bishops of this land , can hear of our periodical executions for forgery , without the keenest feelings of regret ; yet these executions are all in virtue of enactments made by a legislature of which they form a . part /
and they acquiesce without the least expression of dissent , as they also do to the passing * of an annual act for raising money by lotteries . That a similar abstinence from all interference in questions relating to the policy of the country internal or
external , has not always been manifested , will be seen by a reference to the parliamentary debates during * any year , for instance in the year 1795 . ft appears that some of their Lordships took part in the debates of
" January 27 , On the Motion for Peace , " March 30 , The State of the Nation . " April 28 , Hair Powder Tax . " October 30 , Address on the King ' s Speech . " November 11 , Treason Bill . " December 11 . Convention Bill .
" 16 , High Price of Corn . " It will be seen , that oft the 29 th of November , 1810 , on a motion , with reference to the Regency , two archbishops and nine bishops voted . —On the 4 th January , 1811 , on the Regency Bill , two archbishops
and thirteen bishops . On the 25 th Der cember , on the same bill , two archbishops and nine bishops ; and it may safely be affirmed , that there has scarcely ever been a division in the House of Lords on any great political question on which a portion of the bishops have not voted : but upon
the criminal law , the management of our prisons , the raising of money by Bun day Newspapers , Lotteries , the abuse of ardent spirits , &c . &c , I find no trace of similar zeal . In reference , however , to tlie subject more immediately in hand , I am quite sure there is not a bishop upon the bench , who
would venture to deny , that the Criminal Law of England exists , and is enforced in open , defiance of the law of Ood and the g-ospel of Jesus Christ . The Church may be in danger : but the danger is from within , her foes are of her own hoiisehold-A little exertion , in the cause of God and
truth , of injured justice and suffering" humanity , would do more to conciliate the people of this country , than if our ecclesiastical superiors were to cover the land with churchei . An ambassador of Christ is a minister of mercy . " Pp . 56 > 57 .
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Review *—Bowdler on the Punishment of Death in the Case of Forgery * 267
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Art . IX . — On the Punishment of Death in the Case of Forgery ; its Injustice and Impolicy Demonstrated . By Charles Bowdler , Esq . Second edition . 8 vo . pp . 60 . Hamilton . 2 s . 1819 .
THIS is an enlarged edition of the valuable tract which we reviewed in our last Volume , XIII . 645 . The Author , Mr . Bowdler , has now put his name to it ; we know of no name which it would not honour .
Amongst the additions is the following note , relating to the parliamentary conduct of the bishops , which we copy the more readily as it comes from the pen of a Churchman : —
" With all due respect , I submit to the consideration of those who are at the head of our ecclesiastical establishment , whether there can be any object more worthy of their regard than this * The Church of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/55/
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