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    who will murmur at this that considers it asr the price paid for freedom of conscience ? The zealous divine ^ who is ^ most likely ; to * deplore the supposed evil , should remember , that though the " language" of the builders of Babel was " confounded * ' as a punishment , the discipleson the day of Pentec

    " spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance ; " and amidst the infinity of Christian dialects , there is surely nothing to bewail but muclv to admire and applaud , if each " in his own tongue" shall assert liberty of speech for all , and there be one prevailing sense in ; all the divers tongues ^ - — that sense , a , recognition of the superiority of Charity to Faith . ; -

    The more religious and learned of the Low-Church ^ arty [ inay be considered as represented by the " Quarterly Review . " This * powerful journal is- not always consistent , but its theology is mild and catholic . Its ecclesiastical politics are evidently accommodated to the wishes of the more liberal part of the present divided Cabinet . The " Times" newspaper is in the same interest , and its influence is incalculable .

    The " Evangelical" or Methodist party in the Church , is numerous , popular and rapidly growing . It can now boast of one Bishop , who goes far to blunt the edge of a royal sarcasm . When some of the Prelates consulted George II . as to the means of preventing Whitfield from preaching incessantly , his majesty is reported to have said , ^ I must make a bishop of him ! " T ) r . Ryder is not stopped by episcopal etiquette or disabled by-the ; weight of the mitre from ministerial labours . Of the same active and zealous party was , we suppose , the late excellent and much-lamented Bishop of Calcutta—if he may not be rather placed midway between the Evangelical ; Churchmen and the temperate and rational High Churchmen . The Evangelical party has in its ranks some of the nobility , especially in the female branches ; many of the gentry , more particularly of the same sex ; some of the inferior dignitaries of the Church ; a host of the unbeneficed clergy ;

    and a considerable proportion of the inhabitants of some of the greater towns . No one can help perceiving that the sect , for sucjh it is , is spreading every where ; the way seeming to have been opened for it by the wonderful exertions of the popular Dissenters ^ As a pa rty ,, the Evangelical members * of the Church have been , with some few exceptions * warm supporters c > £ the Bible Society . -For decorum sake , many of the clergy of this denomination ^ are subscribers to the Bartlett ' s Buildings Society for promoting Christian knowledge ^ the example and guardian of Church-of-England orthodoxy ; tut their feelings are with more eager and stirring associations . Missionary

    Societies for evangelizing the Heathen or converting the Jews , Tract Societies , and popular institutions of the same class , are the means on which they , reckon for party success . To their prake be it spoken , they are generally found amongst the promoters of popular education , which they naturally enough seek to turn to their own account , and one division of tb $ * n have

    been laborious beyond measure in the attempt to abolish slavery and . to ittv prove the condition of negro slaves . This branch of the Evangelical Chuf $ h > is particularly connected with a small party in the House of Commons ^ lately headed by Mr . Wilberforce and now by Mr . FoweU Buxton , whom the wicked designate " The Saints . " In the time of Mr . Pitt , these politicians

    and statesmen , as we must by courtesv at least call them , constituted a knot of voters on wnom the minister could calculate on commotl occasions : in trying emergencies they established their own importance by , trimming the balance between 1 the ins and the Outs . More lately , they have generally leaned to a liberal policy , whether domestic or foreign * and they * may toe regarded in the aggregate as not inimical to civil and religious liberty .

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    6 On the State of ReUgiom Parties in England *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/6/