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year which has since elapsed has shewn more strongly the impractibility of such schemes of comprehension ; and the only union to which the Christian philosopher now allows himself to look forward is in the spirit and practice of the gospel—not in rites , discipline , or even doctrine . K «
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To the Editor . Sir , I rejoice to see a spirit of curiosity respecting the religious history of Ireland manifesting itself so early in the New Series of your Repository ; and
I am willing to infer , from your insertion in the number for February of your Correspondent ' s queries on the subject of the Convocation and Articles of the Church of Ireland , that you will admit into your pages such information , in reply , as may be found correct in itself , and conveyed in a spirit consistent with the tenor of your valuable Miscellany . Guided by these views , I therefore send you a tew gleanings on the subject of the Irish
Convocation . I may be permitted to premise , that the materials for illustrating the ecclesiastical history of this country are extremely scanty . The general histories of Ireland that are published touch but slightly on this branch of the subject , and that too in a most partial manner . The lives and state papers of our chief governors , prelates , or statesmen , that have been given to the world , supply a few incidental notices that materiall y correct the prejudiced and defective accounts of professed historians . But this is aU that an inquirer
into this important portion of his country ' s history has to guide him in his search . We have not the invaluable treasures of unpublished manuscripts , which the British Museum presents to the student of English , and the Advocates' Library to that of Scottish History , and which so amply reward their most laborious investigations . Trinity College in Dublin , indeed , possesses a very extensive and valuable collection of manuscripts : such , at least , is the popular belief . But we must remember " omne ignotum pro magnifico ;"
and never was a treasure more warily guarded and more successfully withdrawn from general circulation . Even this magnificent library of books is inaccessible to the stranger or the uninitiated for any useful purpose . It is closed most rigorously on every saint ' s day and holiday through the year ; not a venerable martyr , or confessor , or impostor , is there in all the Popish calendar , that is not thus honoured b y this Protestant university ; and before you make use of the books , an oath or two of reasonable dimensions must be
first digested . But its manuscript-room is the Corinth which it is permitted to few to enter ; and if it be rich , but few of its treasures can be detected even in the works of those who had daily access to it : —witness Leland , the historian of Ireland , who was himself a Fellow of the College , but whose work presents few traces of minute or diligent research . We are , therefore ,
much cramped and bounded in our illustration of any portion of our ecclesiastical history on which a' stranger may seek information . We can do . little more than bring before him extracts from what has been already published , without pretending to add any thing new . This will appear more clearly in the following gleanings ; and it must plead my excuse if they prove insufficient to satisfy the laudable curiosity of your correspondent on the subject to
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IRISH CONVOCATIONS .
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236 frisk Convocations ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/4/
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