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preach Christ , seems with him ( if he follow his principles to their legitimate conclusion ) to preach him as the authorities of the State shall from time to time direct . " The precept that requires us to submit * to the powers that be / includes , " he says , " in those powers , ecclesiastical as well as civil governors ; and " the elements of schism are no other than those of sedition . "
The best mode of preaching Christ , seems to him to be to preach him by ministers legally appointed : for he assures " the Legislature , that , while it sanctions as well as tolerates the spread of sectarianism by its grant of licences to preach ,
without discrimination or restriction , such false liberality tends to demoralize the public manners , and to give a tremendous impulse to that fanaticism which confounds the order of things , by merging all intellectual and moral attainments in a wild and dangerous piety . ' *
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Art . VIII . —A Plain Statement in support of the Political Claims of the Roman Catholics , in a Letter to the Rev . Sir George Lee , Bart . By Lord Nugent . London . 1826 . We shall not attempt more than to recommend this noble pamphlet to the careful perusal of our readers . To condense its manly , eloquent and generous
statement of the arguments upon the great question which it discusses , would do it no justice ; and to make extracts might induce some readers to omit that perusal of the whole , from which , if their hearts are where they ought to be , they must derive the highest enjoyment . We must , however , be allowed to express the wish , which we have often felt , that Dissenters would make the real
nature and operation of the annual Indemnity bills better known and appreciated ; and we should not then have it asserted and believed by such men as Lord Nugent , that by these statutes ** the disqualifying laws against the Protestant Dissenters have been rendered of no
effect . " Whatever be the merits of the argument between Lord Nugent and the exclusionists , we should think no one of them would feel quite at his ease in a system which enables it to be said with truth , that " there are but Three Sovereigns now in Europe , in whose dominions a difference in religion is held to be an objection in law to the filling all civil functions—Ferdinand of Spain , Sultan Selim of Turkey , and the King of England !"
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Art . IX . —A Letter to Henry Waymouthy Esq ., Deputy Chairman of " The Deputies / ' Sfc , on a Subject of vital Interest to the Reputation of the Dissenting Community , Sfc . By Joseph Ivimey ,. 8 vq + pp . 16 . 1826 . What can have led Mr . Ivimey to * regard himself as the champion of the Protestant Dissenters ? He has learned
by this time that he has overrated his influence , which is " less than nothing , " and that his intolerance has excited unmingled contempt in the body whose proceedings he has so condescendingly offered to direct . On account of the part which Mr . W . Smith , the member for Norwich , took in the debate in the House of Commons
on the Deist Taylor ' s petition , ( for our view of which the reader may eonsult our last Number , pp . 77—79 , ) Mr . Ivimey modestly proposes that the Deputies should eject him from their chair ! This we fear is not all that this Baptist minister would recommend , if he received encouragement and found his strength equal to his bigotry : for he takes for
granted that persons professing infidel opinions ought not to be protected by the laws of the land ( p . 3 ) ; he quotes the statute book as if it were the Bible , and marks with peculiar complacency the 9 th and 10 th of William III ., directed against those ' miscreants , " (
according to Blackstone " and other great constitutional lawyers , " ) the unbelievers and the mis-believers , ( ib . ); and he echoes back the speech of Mr . Batley , " that a person who did not believe in our Saviour ought not to be tolerated in a British House of Commons" ( p .
12 ) . Wishing well to this Baptist minister , we congratulate him that Providence has not placed him in a station which permits his being an actual persecutor ; nor endowed him with such talents as would enable him to urge on his supe - riors in rank to the goodly work of depriving men of their liberty and property , because they differ in opinion from the pastor of the congregation of Eagle Street , near Holborn .
A Dissenting minister is not compelled to act consistently with his own avowed principles , nor is it an inseparable adjunct of his character that he should write sense , but we had always conceived that it was an admitted rule that he should speak the truth . Mr . Ivimey seems to think otherwise , and therefore misquotes , and by misquoting
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Critical Notices . 121
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/41/
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