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feel as profound respect for the delicate feelings of the other sex / ' as he , or any other person can entertain , so far as they are founded in nature , and connected with virtue ; yet I think there may be false delicacy irieither sex ; and 1 have no hesitation in saying , that with that measure of understanding which nature has bestowed upon me , and with the utmost attention
which I am capable of commanding , in the contemplation of this subject , I am unable to perceive the least indecency or impropriety in attempting to inquire , whether the carpenter of Judeaj who was commissioned by the One God and Father of all , to shew men the way of salvation , and who " left them an example that they might follow his steps , ' was indeed , according to the scriptures ^ one ' * of the posterity of David , " or whether be was , according to the orthodox faith , the creatorof the world
inhuman shape . li there was any indecorum in the proceedings of that dav , it was not in Mr . Bennett ' s exercising his unquestionable right of choosing ; his own subject , according : to immemorial usage upon these occasions , but it consisted m the angry attack which , I am sorry to hear , was made by one or two individuals , at the meeting for business , upon an humble , modest , conscientious minister of Christy for endeavouring to enlighten the minds of his brethren ^ and to remove a part of that pagan rubbish by which the Christian Church has been so long disfigured and obscured .
The twelve short passages cited b / Mr . M . as having given so much offence he represents as having been repeated thirty or forty times in the space of half an hour . This statement upon the very face of it , is incredible ; and whoever will take the pains to peruse the sermon as carefully as I have done , will find , that nothing can be more distant from the truth ; only one of these phrases being used more than four times , and the far greater part of them only once . The majority of these passages , as I have already said , arc taken verbatim from that part of holy scripture which is generally considered as most interesting to Christians ; and as I hope they need no defence in themselves ^ sol think the only apology
that can be necessary ror the preacher s vise of them is ., that they were the most pertinent to his argument that could be selected , and are indeed so harmless ^ that many chapters in that book , which are daily read , both in public assemblies and in private families , might much more plausibly be charged with i ndecency . The 'passages which are Mr . B . ' s own , arc still more unexceptionable . iSurely , Sir , no human beijig except your ingeni *
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SS 6 J / r . ISlicrck on Mr . Bennett ' s Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/22/
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