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v € > « r qualification will lie hi humility , and meekness , seeing it ifc thena « ek whom the Lord teacheth his way- P& . xxv . Qy But dear young men , in this very meeting we have been made to lament , because 50 many of you evidently prefer the prat ifi cat ions of nature which is corrupt , and which tends to corruption , to the cro = sof Christ which corrects its hurtful propensities , and to " the grace of God which brin ^ e th salvation . " Tit . ii .
ii . Many of you have a degree of love io our holy cau * e . Why then will you pwrsue a line -of conduct which tends to lay it waste i Do roc despise the counsel of experience . Many have tried the path which isome of you tread , and have found it lead to distress ; and
happy are those whose course is interrupted , and who do not persist in their progress , before it lead to final distress . But though we thus speak * there are also many of our beloved youth , who are rising and risen into the state of rhaturky , of whom we a ^ e persuaded
* ' better things , and things that accompany salvation- ' ' . Heb . vi . o Dear young friends , of whatever rank , sex , or scatien , it is cordial to behold you , it is cordial to salute you in the fellowship of th < J gospel , and to bid you God speed . Hold on your way , turn not aside to the right hand or the Ifcft . You mav have
tribulation , but be of good cheer : your holy leader haih overcome the world . John xvi . 33 . Thus , when some of those who now address you shall be beheld no more in this scene of conflict , but if they continue faithful will partake of the joy of their Lord , and of y , ur JLord , you may stand in their places with holy firmness , be a ble ^ sin ^ r to siu ceeding generations , and * fc show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into Jiis marvellous light , " 1 Pet . ii . 9 . Signed in and on behalf of the Meeting , by JAMES BAKER , Clerk to the Meeting this year . POLITICO-KELIfi TOU S . MR . STONE . —We extract the following account of the prosecution carrying on against this Gentleman from a periodical work , one of tht ? writers in which seems to be intimately c Olivers-• at with the affair .
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** An occurrence has taken place hf which there seems to he a pro-babUiiy < k judging , whether « ind how far the Chuichof England is carried away fey the spirit of popery . The case of Mr , Stoke , an aged Presbyter o { the Church of England , is one of those "h y whic ^ i churches' are tried- ; just as the case of professor Leslie at Edinburgh , lately alforded an opportunity of judging the spirit of the Presbyterian Clergy in that district . No persons rejoiced moene heariily than ourselves , at the defeat
of the Presbyterian Clergy upon that occasion ; because they were interfering in a matter in which they had no business , and it is highly for the interest of every nation to keep down as much as possible die spirit of Priestcraft , The case of Mr . Stone is different . He
is a clergyman of the church of England ; and after a study of the holy scriptures f « r fifty years , has been givi-iag to the pub : ic the result of his enquiries . He may doubtless be -wrong , for -all men are liable to error ; but a man of seventy years of age , who has been making the scriptures his study for the
whole of his life , is not to be lightlycalled in question for his opinions : at any rate , the persons who do call his opinions in question , should give us some reason to believe that they are interested in the cause of religion , an 4 that they are competent to examine thesubjecc .
** We thought that the controversy had been between the Bishop of London and" Mi . S tone , both of them , aged men , both of them men of learning and study from their youth . Such a controversy , conducted with Christian temper * could not fail to have been edifying . The mildness of the paternal authority
of the 1 > i 4 iop , would naturally have led him to inquire into the nature of Mk . Stone ' s opinions ; to discuss them with the aged Presbyter ; to point out where the errors , if there were any errors , laid , and would have guarded th « church , if neces ^ a y > against the
repetition of them . But we find upon inquiry that nothing of this kind ha * taken or is likciy to take place . The bishop has not exercised the mildness of paternal authority ; he has not discussed with Mr . Stone ; everything h' 4 . 1 beep curried on yvhh the high hardk
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Intelligencem—Prosecution of Mr . Stone . 44 »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/53/
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