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sake * of any advantage , to beliebur consciences , bat are bound , oh the contrary , to bear our testimony agarirast it , * And We shall very much deceive mirselves if we think by cringing and fawning to the clergy to coax them into an acknowledgement of our claims . Like the image-makers of
EpheSus , as soon a 9 the dissenting teacher Paul began to preach , they would make oar application to Parliament a signal for setting up a hue and cry against us . They look upon
religion as a craft—2 l tfafle , by " which they have their wealth / ' and any thing which would tend to the advantage of those who do not belong to their sect ; they will consider as tending to bring their " craft into danger . " They have
been not unaptly described as " a sable society of gentlemen , wearing broad hats and deep garments , who possess great part of the wealth and power of the world for keeping mankind in decent ignorance and
bondage /* * In saying what I have done of the clergy , I trust . I shall not be thought to have spoken harshly , or to have used language which is not fairly authorized by their ablest and most recent advocates . For upon wh&t ground did Mr . Plunkett and Mr . Peel
reply to Mr . Hume ' s statement of the laziness and inefficiency of the clergy in Ireland ? Not on that of having earned their wages by their work . The whole of their arguments were very properly stated to amount to
this—that church is church , and property is property . It was treated entirely as a matter of trade , and when the clergy are told that they do nothing for what they receive , they do not deny it , but forthwith a clamour is raised about " vested interests . " This
trade , then , it is clear , they will defend pedibus et unguibuS ^ and it is idle to expect favour or forbearance from them . They will uste every engine to defeat our claims . Let them . We shall , nevertheless , succeed in the end . True it is that we shall be defeated in
OUT first ejldeavour , and most probably in our second and third . But that ia no reason for inactivity or despair : The diseusaion which must arise ; : . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . !« " , i- > ¦ ¦ , 1 . . . « , .. '• ' ¦•• \ ¦ ' ' ,. : ' . ' ** Apology * for the Danger of thef € hureby
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whenever the' subject comes before the Legislature and the public , must be productive of good ; and the final success of the cause of religious liberty will be certain . - > A NONCONFORMIST .
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Sir , October 30 , 1822 ; rTTHE Editors of the Evangelical JL Magazine having published an article in their number for 'June , under the head of ' * ' Unitarian Views of Christian Missions /* containing
what I consider uncandid and unjustifiable Strictures on the Cursory Remarks on Borneo , which you honoured me by publishing in the Monthly Repository , ( Vol . XVII . pp . 13 and 98 , ) I addressed an explanatory eomiriiinicatiion thereon to the aforesaid
Editors , and requested its insertion " on what I deem a fair claim , viz . that the defence should be admitted into the same work which published the attack : but it seems I gave more credit for candour in this instance than could be accepted by the parties , for the Editors state in their notices to
Correspondents for last month , " Our sentiments oil Christian doctrine differ so widely from those of J . C . R . that he must excuse our inserting his remarks / ' Now ; I might at this point leave the Christian candour of such a
mode of procedure to the judgmem > of every honest m&n Who dares to think for himself ; but I cannot help observing , that these Trinitarian leaders had much better let us alone / than in this manner shew to their thinking and inquiring disciples ( however small
the numbers of thdse may be ) , that they cannot use the Words of our Lord and his apostles without note or comment , and so repeat or quote the following or similar passages : * ' Search the Scriptures : " '"' Call no matf
master ( in spiritual thing's ) on earth / for one is yoiir Ma ^ r , event Christ ; arid ail ^ ye are brethren *;** ""Prove' all things , hold fast that which is £ ddd ;" •* vBfe always 'ready'to give treason for the hope that is in you > " **< And th&je were' mdre noble than those in
Thessalonica , in that ^ tfifey received the woffd ^ wit&' all rte&diness of mind , search ing the > Scii ^ tUres d ^ il ^ , < ' whether tlM ^ te ^ ' ^ tim ^ - ^ i Bf ttorin $ - i rig up anife ^ ^ epoft < of I JtiitaHail ^ m ^ they eid ^ % o ^* t 5 dekr their di 3 e ! p l ^^
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1 S 6 Capt . Ross's rejected Communication to tfw > Evarigetical Magazine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/28/
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