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    fa- t | i ^; 5 v ^^^ VG ^ rc ; h . spiqe » acj 3 ^ ymis& anc } so ipe Anmnians . TJie ^ <^* in % & ; a ^ tn qr& divided ii > io ^ ig h andi pvr * pr . Hkwker ai ^ d , Mr . Var ^ h ^ fit are the . leaders , of the Hjgh Cajvkist Churchmen , and { are tq- \ proached , by ; their r own , t } ret ] ir , £ n who are . lower on , the Geneva scale ,, wijfi , Anti ^ niianisi » . TJhe " Christian Guardian" is devoted to Hi gh Calyinisav byt ev ^ this ( jovial stops , short of the VfUra faith of ; the a ^ ove-najpaed divines , Its ( se £ qn $ i : title , is , 'sChurch ^ of-England Magazine ;" , but notwithr

    standi ng this denomination , which is in some respects cathpljc , tJ ^ e , " Guardian" sinlfs belpw the " Evangelical Magazine" in . point of > talsnty bqt , to make amends , rises to a level with it in bigotry , and , goes , qujte as faj , in . the use off th ^ t > spiritual jargon which all besides the party cal } , " . cant , " The heads of the , n ^ pre moderate Calyinists injhe Church are Mr . Simeon , the pulpit veteran , ' of . Cambridge , and Mr . Daniel ; Wilson , vicar of Islington , from whom l } is parishioners nave already learned one point of law , and rqay if they please , le , am the gospel , according , to the Thirty-nio £ Articles , Their

    sentiments - are suppprted by the " Christian , Observer , " which is a respecta ^ Je periodical , containing occasionally some able and learned papers , and is favourable on the whole to freedom , though , not , a . little bleniished occasipnally by the q ^ j ^ ffh theologipum , nor quite free from the sectarian dialect . This journal is in the- hapds of the Anti-slaveryrpart of the Evangelical Church .

    From the tyme $ of Toplady and Romaine , the Evangelical preachers , in . the Church have loj ^^ red their doctrinal tone , Arminiansi are npt now , accu § e < l ; by them , as th ^ y then were , with being violaters of all the Ten Commands meats . The Bib ) e Spciety and other like institutions have brought \^ esleiafv ministers and mem )?^ rs into communion with ; Evangelical , preachers in ^ Hply Orders , and ^ tr , uge h «^ ^^ tacitly agreed upon between these once fierce and irreconqijpable polemics , Some ofj the members of the City-npa < i " Conference" ar , e said to lopk with rather a longing eye upon the high places and goop ! things of the Established Church ; and there is a disposition in certain members- of die Establishment Ux tajte them into their pale , as , auxiliaries in the contest with the Dissenters ,

    The habits a . nd ; manners of Evangelical Churchmen differ by all the degrees that there af e between the Vicars of Clapham and Harrow an < J the facetious Orator of Surry Chapel . Some read well-written and not overlong sermons ; others deliver themselves extempore and let , the hour-glas $ fairly run . out , trusting to their wit or eloquence to keep the attention of tp ^ ir hearers from flagging . Some break through all canonical rule& an ^ L" use themselves as laymen" and Dissenters , and . are to be seen at player meetings , expounding meetings , experience meetings , * if not at camp meetings , ;

    * These meetings resemble the " Prophesy ings" set on foot to promote tji £ Jleformatipn in England , but which soon excited the jealousy of Queen Elizabeth and her bishops and ministers , and which they put down with so much di / lfculty . True Churchmen have always held these " bands ** and ¦ ' classes" schisniatical . The hue Bishop of Calcutta did but just tolerate them amongst the missionaries in Ceylon . " These meetings , " says the right reverend censor , " are described as beginning and ending with prayer—led , indifferently , by ministers , of different sect | 8 , or bj [ , their lay friends , but not by the fcmajes ; and as broken by Hymns , / ' ( singular

    fracture !) " in which all present join . " The Bishop pomts ou , t ** serious dang £ r . /? J to which such meetings are liable . " " The first is the risk of levelling tlj . e pccipipr , claims possessed by the holders of an Apostolic Commission—who ha . ve received the Spirit of God . by the dispensation of a . long line of Saints and Martyrs" 1 u OtherJ inconvenienjces and improprieties , " the Bishop a < J 4 a , " are incidental to wka $ are , usually called Prayer Meetings , which feave led to their rejection by the great majority of the Church of England : " among the rejectors he names , a fortiori , " the late J ^ r . ? Scott , of Aston Sandford , and the late Mr . Robinson , of St . Mary , Leicester . " The

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    On the State of Religious Parties in England . 7 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/7/