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there is of rectitude in the practice of the cotter , with a clearer perception than his that it is rectitude . He has the privilege , with the prelate , of looking back into the records of all religions , and tracing the common source of all their abuses , while he is as free as his humble coadjutor from the entanglements of institutions which perpetually reproduce the evils he labours to destroy . In entering upon the high office of Christian instruction , the first prayer should be for spiritual requisites ; the next , for accomplishment in the lore of the gospel and of the human heart ; and the third , for deliverance from factitious difficulties and self-created
impediments . When these prayers are put up universally , with due sincerity of soul and energy of purpose , we shall hear no more of the Church of Rome , or the Church of England , with their distinctive errors and assumptions . Their peculiar claims , at any rate , and , we trust , their common vices , will merge in the prevalence of the church of Christ .
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Since our last publication , the country has passed through a political crisis which has , perhaps , never been exceeded in importance . Not only has the existence of Lord Grey ' s administration , and the success of the Reform Bill , been at stake , but , with them , the whole course of our policy , both foreign and domestic ;
and men ' s minds have been familiarized with the ideas of foilitary government , of organized resistance , of commercial embarrassment , and of civil war , as of things of which a few days might realize the commencement . It seemed as if the bonds of society were about to be loosened , and its foundations broken up . We look back as on a wild and fearful dream , and scarcely yet breathe freely . Nor are we quite sure that it has quite passed . The
billows are yet rolling , huge and heavy , after the storm ; they have not been hushed , as if by miracle , into an instantaneous and perfect calm ; and though we hope they will subside , and the world be 4 once more set smooth revolving , ' we cannot hide from ourselves the possibility that another tempest may be brooding . So many conflicting elements and influences are mingling , that the state seems liable to the casualties of individual life ; and the most farsighted fail to tell what the morrow shall bring forth .
Enough , however ,, has passed to furnish ample materials for meditation and instruction . One page , at least , of the providential lesson is complete , and we shall do well to study it , though but a brief interval of quiet should be allowed us for that purpose * There may be need of the application by the time that we have learned the lesson . It is a momentous one ; every divine and moralist ; every philosopher and statesman ; every patriot , philanthropist , and citizen ; all patricians and all plebeians , —should
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392 The Recent Political Crisii . '
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THE RECENT POLITICAL CRISIS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/32/
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