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140 WhistG 7 iius s Second Xjeiiet on Stones Sermon .
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can no longer consistently claim those rights and enjoy those , immunities . To this plain statement , what does my opponent reply ? That— " A man who 1 O or 20 years ago subscribed the 39 articles—when he hardly knew what they were—is not always to be of the same religious opinions . "—Yet he may continue in the same ecclesiastical service and receive the same reward ! He may provide a evirate to perform for him his ritual engagements while he worships God in a , Unitarian congregation , after the manner which the Church calls Heresy ; and if once in his life he is called to preach in the Established Church on a public occasion , his extraordinary cc opportunities of making converts to Unitarianism" are to
be put in competition with the examples of self denying cornsistency , afforded by seceding Clergymen . On this convenient principle of accomodation to " existing circumstances /* a $ was conjectured by a correspondent of the learned , Gilbert Wakefield , whose letter is quoted in his memoirs , were iC the Bible burnt , and the Alcoran established in its stead , we might still , were the emoluments the saine ^ have plenty of Bishops- Priests and Deacons /'
I no more doubt than C . G . does , Q < Mr . Stone ' s boldness in the cause of Truth . " I only regret the advantage which such inconsistency affords to those whom we must consider * however conscientious , as adversaries of that caiise . I knowi too that he exposes himself" to "« the censure ofJhis clerical brethren" and to the inconvenience of " being deprived of his gown / ' Of this , however , he can have little ^ apprehension * We have no Beckets , nor Lauds ; , nor any longer even a Horsley . The Church , as the weaker , though first-named party in the far famed alliance , takes , her impression from the state ; and no men can be less disposed fhan our present statesmen , to sound that war-whoop , < c the church is in danger . "
C . G . might have spared his , supposition of C 6 a fftijul ^ depending for support" on a Unitarian ConfovrnisL T ha ^ in my former letter supposed such a case and it is a subject which I would never touch with a rude hand . I am persuaded that many excellent persons who would hate tri- , umphed over the terrors of an inquisition ^ have been overcoqi ^ ih the bosom of such a family , fn that case ,, both the churchy and the world have a right to expect , a ^ nd generally witf e . S 9 , thjev decorum of silence . But I am quite tired , a ? I gue §; s thaL you , and your readers must be , of arguipg syctj . a , pT ^ % qu ^ ijt idh ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/28/
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