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pion was jead y to present himself !—" What opinion , let me ask , stands foremost in the rank of Popish falsehoods connected with the word of the eternal God ? What opinion appears stamped upon the brazen forehead OF THE HARLOT who Sets HER
SHAMELESS front against the majesty of h ^ aWn ' sl ^ feT ^ to wag her impious tongue against the revelation of his love and mercy ? " * And thus much for Popery ! Let us now see whether it has fared any better with the antipodes of that creed : " Well then , " exclaims another of the peaceful brotherhood , emulous of the
sounds of love which had floated from the shores of our Emerald Isle , — " well then , what is likely to come from this Papist-Protestant Board ? I suppose that the Protestant part is purely protestant . I do not suppose there is anything of Socinianism mixed up with it . Oh , to trust a Soeianian to mutilate the Bible I—as well might you trust A vampire to leave the
life ' s blood in its victim 1 t * Now , sir , whether these indications betray more * of the nature of the lamb or the lion—more of the placid or the furious—I leave it for those who are curious in the history of animal habits to determine . But , sir , startling as these specimens may have proved , our
menagerie comprises a still more extravagant combination of opposite qualities , which our own island , fabled as it is to have long since ejected all monstrous things from her soil , has still the unenvied peculiarity of having produced . Hitherto we have had to do with the lion and the lamb , the
leopard and the kid—but imagination exhausts itself in the attempt to conceive the union of either of these gentle natures with the untameable soul of the hyena ! And yet , sir , I am credibly informed that one of the moat earnest advocates of the system which is to kindle in the infant heart " the
* Letter of the Rev . Robert M'Ghee to the Rev . Dr . Sadlqir . , t 1 W . Mr , Melville ' s Speech at Exeter feall .
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kindly sympathies of our nature , " by dint of its combined religious instruction , —thought himself warranted to kindle , in his maturer hearers , this same " kindly sympathy , " by some such incentive as tlie following : — " when the devil was hammering infidelity on the anvil of hell , Arianism
was ~ one-of—the-most—hot-and—per ^ nicious sparks that issued from the forge ! !! " [^ ' There , sir , there ' s an apostle of peac e for you ! There ' s a missionary to preach against the mischief of instilling animosities in the peasant mind of Ireland ! Take him , Kildare Place Society , take him , my Lord of Roden , to your alliance—and prove to astonished Britain on what
materials you rely , and to what prodigies you resort , in support of your wise , andnational , and Christian schemes ! 1 Sir , I can only rapidly glance at what remains . These missionaries of peace— -these" half-lambs and whole hyenas—these champions of
Protestantism , half-tbleraiits and whole : persecutors—half-scripturalists and whole Creedists , talk loudly of Christian liberty , talk fondly of the sole sufficiency of Scripture , and can never enough commiserate the ignorance which submits to priestly intrusion .
' Strange , Sir , that these purists have altogether forgotten , that of those among them who profess an adherence to the Established Church , not one can presume , at the peril of schistn , to define what heresy is ! It is reserved for the Parliament of
England to do so . This Blackstone will tell them . And of those who do not belong to the Church of Parliament—pardon me—of England I mean , the bulk are alike subservient to the Assembly of Westminst ; er—to the men whom Selden frightened with the Hebrew Bible—to " shallow
Edwards , and Scotch what d'ye call "—! Sir , I hold at this instant in mv ~ kand documentary evidence that this is the fact ; and that it is a ruled case that in order to constitute heresy , it U not enough to prove the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1813/page/16/
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