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Sti ^ devotions the Son , consistently with that we owe to jG ^ od j . assoeiidSj fte ^ &trer our prayer and praise will approach , if not to evangelical verity , a ^ l&a& to its apostolical standard . ; » - ! Maiiy of your readers ( if indeed you should liberally deign to insert this mbtfe y calumet of war and peace ) will smile or sneer while running th ^ ir f jey « over these preliminaries of a proffered negociation with a class pf ^> UF fell < p ^ - christians of late years proverbially wedded to every thing « rt ^~ ' & 3 ( j&t # whether right or wrong , m Church and State , as the only s # ? ui $ ity < f fQM $£ e itionopojy of i ( $ emoluments and honours , and opposing , hating , Cmd d * ka 4 ing hionbpojy of its erjaoluments and honours , and opposing , haUi ^ g , cmddyeiaaing
every Anti-trinitarjan , jis if he carried about him the match that ( iwa ^ pnejd ^ y destine ^ to e'ffecjtiis explosion . They will not smile nor sneer jthfe l ^ wbeu t ' ^ w ^ mymost ' . ^ Lpbere conviction , that there are not at the , |^ es < etit ; d ^ y ^^ ' ridany i ^ fe ^^ ^^ clergy of the Church mpriglany 5 Vtjialy malgrt the effedt of habit , esprit de CQTph and natural Stfettion * to a family , hundreds . eyeri ojF | hje latter would rather resign their ' ^ r ^ jfefmeni ^¦ ' ^' onqp * t ^ an sofepinlV ,, in th <^ presence of God , prpfesSy on ^ nyUta ' ted day ^ at ' the ' demand oi itfeirhiera ^ y , as thje conditipii of their
Maihing } J i eig ? 1 t tK ( g 5 enBr ^ belief ^^ qerta ^ n , tformulary ; / nay , that evfen l ^ Mii ^^ ( !^ p ^ ' ^^ ^ ^^^ i ^ g ^ vocates of their Bibles , who woula ha > ebejqih pdter ,. pleased , if , the ^ 4 lustrious ; names by wfeiqh tjiey ate so forward and proud , 40 . swear , had , bee , n more thorough Protestants than they were ,, piy perhaps ^ coula payej ^ en , when thsey went to work upon the rnass-DOOjc" of melr , forefather ^ / Tfie t ) i $ sent ) e rs , by birth or outward profession ^ haive ^ ' s ^ rt ^ pf jjeaj ^] $ Qip \ ajQ Uurphu > ai > , which not a little c ^ npa-( ures a whole host < H ii \ divic | ijak if | this supppsed creed-and-sLtticle-ridden
communityl ^ e& pptu ^^ , are npt banishecf the libraries of these Gama-Iielites , nor is every copy of them in their possession blazoned with an Episcopal sledge-hammer in the act of " prostrating the understanding . " Their candles do not invariably burn blue when some orthodox dogma excites a doubt in their minds , nor does the ghost of Latimer or Ridley that instant rise and pinch them by the nose when , / x £ o-ovwtT * aK *<> & at $ atg , they are every now and then a little too naughtily disposed f to take the it Is plain from their history and writings , that the honour they rendered him on
this account excited no alarm in their own minds or in that of their countrymen , of its trenching on their avowed worship of ' * the God of their fathers . " Yet this godly jealousy seems one of the most irritable feelings , and any homage , but the lowest possible , matter of the greatest horror to many who esteem themse , l ¥ es % ) ? c only true apostolical Christians . * The history of the Establishment attests , that It Is one tiling , in tne opinion of not a few of its members , to treat with tfie Church for a past amlgone-by offence ,
andanotlierMiot to deprecate an unseasonable repetition of some of her requisitipp ^ ^ Wh yJqOlcst thou me gcM ? JNoiui is gotid bttt <* 6 ft . , < pf that d » y w& pour ,
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^ iTy a ^ S iX ^ - ^^ ^ l ; ^ Vsu sjU ^ -V - 79 * 4 Theological Peace-making .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/10/
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