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chiefly in the neighbourhood of Glasgow * a few Baptists , and the small number of Unitarians , whose congregations must be well known to the readers of the Repository All the
Dissenters in Scotland , it is probable , do not exceed one fourth of the population . —* -Sir Henry ' s style is very diffuse , often obscure , and full of Scotticisms . T . C . H ,
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see of that Church ; but under the protection , and with the assistance of the civil magistrate , they all established church governments of their own , in which little more regard was paid to the rights of conscience , and the promotion of that liberty with which Christ hath made us free , than in the Church of Rome ; while the fatal tree of Anti-christian superstitioik
continued to be cherished and cultivated with the same zeal as formerly , stripped only of a few of those boughs which obstructed the exercise of that worldly wisr dom and crafty policy , which was but too visible in the conduct of even Luther and Calvin themselves . "—P . 19 . M .
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Review . —? A Letter tq The Protestant . —A Discourse on Excommunication . 441
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Art . IV . —A Letter to The Protestant , occasioned by Ids A ttadk upon the Gentlemen of the Coffee-Room , and the Lower Classes of Society in Glasgow . By a Layman . Glasgow , Redder wick . London * Hunter .
8 vo . pp .. 23 . Is . rj ^ HE pamphlet bearing this title JL is an exposure of the prevailing system of Christianity , by one who , though not engaged in ministerial duties , has evidently made theology a favourite study . The Protestant appears to be one of those strait-laced believers whose standard of
Christianity is perfectly equivalent to a subscription to all the articles of their fanciful creed ; and upon this principle , he has preferred the charge of religious ignorance against a very respectable cljiss of a Christian
community . The Layman , breathing a much freer spirit , volunteers his efforts to expose The Protestant ' s illiberality . He takes occasion to inquire , whether the system presumed by The Protestant to be taught in the word of God , be any more reconcileable to
Scripture than it is consistent with the first principles of reason . His present inquiry is confined to the doctrine of Original Sin , conceiving-, probably , that if this basis of Calvinism be removed , the whole superstructure must fall to the ground .
The line of argument pursued by him is similar to that of Taylor find Cogan . The Layman has admirably compressed » ome of the best sentiments of these writers . His own style is highly energetic . We subjoin a specimen :
< c At the Reformation , or to speak more correctly , at the separation © f several churches from the commumou of Rome , what happened ? The ecclesiastics of particular countries { indeed , emancipated themselves from their subordination to the
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Art . V . —A plain Discourse on Excommunication , occasioned by the Death of a Person under sentence of Excommunication , in the Parish of Wye , on the 17 th of April , 181 0 , and preached in the adjoining Parish Church of Godmersham , on Sunday the 25 th of the same Month . By the Rev . Joseph Godfrey Sherer , M . A ., Vicar of Godmersham , &c . 1819 . Canterbury .
TfjI E person whose death , or rather burial , occasioned this discourse was a poor man , aged about 70 , who died in the workhouse of the parish of Wye . His name was Tabrams , and about thirty years ago he was dealt with according to the rules of the sect established by law , and excommunicated . The grounds of this sentence have not come to our knowledge , but they are supposed to concern the administration of a wilU Be they what they may , the poor man ' s body was buried at-night , we suppose not in consecrated ground , without any funeral service being read over him * and the earth was levelled
over the grave , so that no trace might remain of the spot where lie was interred . The neighbourhood , we presume , was not a little shocked at this indignity offered to the poor man ' s remains : for the Author of this
Discourse states , that though it did not take place in his parish , yet the fact fell under the knowledge of most of his parishioners , and as they ^ eem to have entertained some misapprehensions of the case , he has been induced
to notice it , and to shew that excommumcatiou is enjoined , as a necessary measure of Ch rife ; Man discipline , by apostolical example and * authority .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/41/
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