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tjiiayrels and violate the order of religious families , ifceyalmost 1 % . sensibly lead to intemperate hours , and they offer an insult to the , common sense of mankind , by having it supposed that reasonable beings cannot enjoy the society of each other but over a car < table ! The minister therefore who has the cafe of souls and
must give an account of his charge , who-will not consult the conscience of the serious and pious part of his congregation , or who will gratify his own taste and that of others whose views are * cpn ~ genial with his own , although they should despise him in secret for his levity or pliability , the rule of whose moral improvement Is , to be found in the spirit and conversation of the generality of his
congregation , and who wishes to excel in nothing except in a .. littjg head knowledge , may be called any thing but a Christian pastor J A Christian pastor he cannot be until he goes before his flocK in . the path of piety and universal obedience !—He may be a hireling ©^ a lover of pleasure , pluming himself in his own conceit that lie has surmounted vulgar and rustic prejudices and imbibed the
manners and follies of the metropolis ! I pity so silly and con ^ . iemptible a character , who doth not know that he is often thye scorn of his associates ^ the ridicule of infidels , and the grief ijf enjightened and conscientious Christians . R . ^ S . T . mutters some ^ thing about Unitarianism , but in so dark a manner as cannot be
understood by any body but himself . If he means to say that Unitarianism leads to a relaxation of morals , or to symbolize witfe the general amusements or fashions of the world that Jieth in wick-. edness , I enter my protest agaitfst the conclusion and the man who draws it .
. And now , Sir , before I conclude , I beg leave to say a wx > r < j ( or two on the letter of " No Bigot , " from Norwich * As lie seemed indignant that the letter on which he animadverts should appear in the Monthly Repository , and not in that farrqgo of bigotry and absurdity , the Evangelical Magazine , " I perceive he is a gentleman of some taste , with tremulous nerves when any thing
very monstrous appears before him ! It may therefore be right t <* keep from his sight the Monthly Repository when it contains any papers relative to practical religion ! If by a " farrago" this \ triter iheans a jumfrleof contradictions , his letter is entitled to be placed in any magazine of this description . The writer admits that all games at hazard are dangerous , therefore scarcel y allowable . This is one of the arguments used by P . Q . against dissenting ^ ministers playing at Cards , The amusement is the hope of gain ; 1
for I def y this " well bred *' gentleman to point out to me any other amusement that can possibly arise from counting black &ncf red spots marked on glazed paper . If No Bigot , " is not capably of comprehending what the letter in question hath already stated respecting the evil attending cards In general , I believe it is of ]} ltti & ~ use to reason with him on the subject . Is the coveting of you-r neighbour ' s money , let it be only a penny , if you please , an evil for bidden by the tenth commandment ? ' If so , why will this writer * k where is the evil of card playiajj ? Sir , I am disposed to re *
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On Dissenting Ministers playing at Cards . \ % f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/15/
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