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at one time that Christ was the Son of God , and at another that he was merely a prophet . '' There are then no contradictsy doctrines taught in the consecrated pulpits of this country ! no disputes between our clergy as to the mean * ing of articled , of which they have aH declared their belief ! no antitrinitarian , lyo Socinian sermons , preachediaJSfe-established Church , much less , > ia assemblies of the clergy ! ^ . ^ '
'< Homely » and sparse , " , thfc preacher observes , <* as these priru ci pies poay seem , to speculative men ^ they , are the only ones by which the existence of any religion can be secured . ' ( p > 7- ) Yet he must have , heard of a religion which existed , aye , and flourished too , for three centuries - without die
aid of his favourite principles ; and ke himself acknowledges in the outset of the discourse , ( p . 3 . that cc WE M'GHT BE CHRISTIJINS WITHOUT ANY ESTAfc £ lSIt £ &
church at All . " America tod is a case in point ; . but to prevent ; its being urged against Iiirti . the preacher remarks , * Ve have now too much reason to belieVe , that the system of greater latitude at * tempted naturally enough in the new world , will end fatally for the Christian religion and for good
practical morality . " ( p . 7 . ) Depraved Americans ! You do not constrain your youth to subscribe at college eweu one article of
faith ! You have no " religious king '" to v bless the nation with his royal piety ! Yon have no holy bishops , to watch and fast and pray for your welfare ! Unhappy men ! who stow ! idly by while all Europe / Impelled by divine zeal , ntshed to ther c < mte % t in defence of u social order and our most holy religion . **
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Smith ' s Sermon on Conduct to Dissenters . 4 S 3
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jploded , and which , when they do not excite indignation can scarcely fail to call down contempt . The toleration pleaded for by the preacher , is rather a feeling of goo 4 nature than a measure of equity , and is not
incompatible with the principles of Sacheverel and Laud . In the first place , he is * convinced that ifi the uninterrupted Order of its prelates , the national Church of England is of apostolical origin : ( p . 25 . ) that is to say , that our present bishops
are the successors and representatives of the apostles by being the successors and representa - tives of popish Bishops ! The resemblance which all bishops in political churches bear to each other ' is discernible enough , but how any of them resemble , much
more represent the apostles , is not quite so clear . In the second place , the preacher contends that u the support of the clergy" ought to be as it is ,
" compulsory on all . '' ( p . 5 . ) His reasons are two . If the people were not compelled to maintain the clergy , they would not be maintained at all—so little alas ! do tlie people , in spite of all their labours , esteem them ! so low do they rate their usefulness ! Or they would be forced to ci gain their subsistence by flattery V Query : by whom is the greatest flattery practised in the pulpit ? by Dissenting Ministers , or the clergy ? In the third place , < c articles of faith' * are necessary to be subscribed , ( p . 5 . ) to prevent iC contradictions being preached . " Without them , says the author , " minister would defend the doctrine of the Trinity and another * ould attack it . We should hear
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/39/
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