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the increase of private happiness would be injurious to the public good ? If such should be our author ' s opinion , we should be glad to learn whether he ever feels a
blush upon his cheeks , when he reads of a state , in which if one member re ^ oice ^ all the members rejoice uith him ; and if one member suffery all the members suffer with him . It is to be feared that the
Doctor ' s sensibilities are not quite so acute ; he has indeed , it seems a great zeal to God , but his Deity is not that source of universal benevolence , whose tender mercies
are over all his works , but a limited fugitive being , vvho shelters only tinder lofty steeples , and cannot gam admittance there , until some mitred pigmy has told him he may enter .
It would be a subject of endless regret , i a disposition to pre fer Dr . Colquhoun ' splantoMr . Lancaster ' s should become general 5 for it is as clearly stamped with a spirit of bigotry , as with a spirit
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3 84 Belshairts Su mmary View .
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A ^ kt . IL- —A Summary View of the Evidence ( indPractical Importance of the Christian Revelation ^ in a Series of Discourses addressed to young Persons , by Thomas Belsham , Minister ofthg Unitarian Chapel in Essex Street . Johnson , 1807 , pp . 204 . 8 vo . fConcluded from page 3 ^ 0 . )
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of injustice . The children atdroitted into his school , which is situated in Orchard-street , Westminster , must be educated in the $ ' Principles of the Established Church . " The preserFation of intolerance , is therefore another reason , why this tract has presumed to lift its head against the Improvements in Education , " published by Mr . Lancaster . The
work will doubtless be read by al thosej who imagine that when a person has acquired a name fotr writing well upon any one subject ^ he is of necessity qualified to write upon any other that happens to enter into his head ; but we can - not dismiss the article without expressing it as our opinion ^ that its moral and political tendency ip evil , and that it is desirable that it should be read only by those on
whom reading makes no lasting impression , and those who arq able to discern sophistry and to repel temptations to bigotry . B .
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Our Author ' s fifth discourse illustrates cc the practical value of the Christian revelation ; " his texp being Titus ii . ' ll—14—a passage Which the learned Selden always ^ dtnired ^ as comprizing , ia a clear and excellent summary , the nal ture , the end and the reward of tjrue religion . '' Mr . B . in the first place , takes a summary view of the leading
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articles of the Christian faith , and then considers their tendency to meliorate the heart aijd to regulate the practice . With good reason he calls the principles and expectations of if hich'he gives a statement ( 160—163 : ) u spblime and animating ;" cold and uninteresting as th 6 y are esteemed by those who prefei * creeds of human fabrication to the * , ¦* - • ¦ ¦ f .. i »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/44/
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