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educated et Oxford , where he % \ ns obliged to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles on his adjmission into the University ; and he of cour % ) , having had his mind
twisted and contaminated by that impious ceremony , has no ide ^ , of the solemn scriptural engagement , which a clegyman enters into with his bishop and the church &t ordination . Mr . Cler . Dunelm maikes
the articles ttue first point ; the jBcriptuces the second . Now I was educated at the JJniversity of Cambridge , where we do not subscribe these articles , till we take 01 ^ master ' s degree . Of course
jnany 0 # * * us leave the University without suffering this mental pros * titutibn ; and for my own part , in GOntihon with numbers of Cambridge men , I look upon \ hp
scriptures in the first place , upon the articles only in the second p lace ;« fnd as infinitely beneath them in dignity and importance : and in this I am justified by the constitution of the Church of
Kngland and by the articles them ,-selves . I am not in the least surprised , that Mr . Stone ' s case is tar from being understood . Few persons will give themselves any trouble
about it , and particularly those in the higher classes . Many , I have conversed with , say , that it h evident Mr . Stone is wrong , for he hns not preached according
to the articles j and they do not examine , whether he has preached according to the scriptures . They are , they $ &y , Christians by act of parliament ; ^ nd this , Mr . Editor , is , I believe , except the
Melodists , the mps , t numerous sect in this country , and I imye litUc ? « craple in \ ny own mintf , fronK * wtoc I k % y # * &&& of tfee wrings *
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of Mr . Cler . - P unelm , of setting him down in this number . But , Sir , for the understanding of this case , the nature of subscription and . ordination ought tP be understood , . ^ Subscription takes
plfice in a pnvate room ^ in the presence of the bishop only ami his secretary . The sub ^ iib ^ r ^ by fixing his ^ ame dpwn in writing , testifies only , that at that time Up assents to thje Thirty , - nine Articles : . he ( does rjpt * fiy , that he believes them , much lesa
does he decl ^ re , » that lie always will believe them . At oedination it is a different case ^ Hi is ceiled upon in the most . soWmiW « an » er , by the bishop , to $ vcln , re that h » will make the scriptures the rule ' of hj $ preaching * and that he wiljr
te ^ qh by them , and by tbem qnly # The supef ^ ity of the obligation in this casp cannot , i | appear * to n * e , be doubted , Every clergy ^ man ^ of the Church of En gift n ^ is bound by hi ? solemn yowifc preach and teach scriptural truth ,
and to preach it in " sjncerity . H < r is not in the least feounfl by h& + subscription to the articles , whtiva he thinks scriptural truth to in * terfere : for this subscription was a requisite only to ordination or
the acceptance of a living . A clergyman , like Mr , Stpne , might very conscientiously hav # sub-, scribed the articles forty or fifty years ago , but hig belief of the m at tfl * U time is not to altejr his conduct now : he is bound hy the most solemn vow , that can ba
made , to teach only by the scrips tures ; hi $ own mind h in this ca $ je the * only judge u # oq ^ swrllh l be ha , s madca . vow in the * igb $ of God , and , M he breaks t ) pq& vow , he is amenable to God % } Qn ** Jk&t tM Cl ^ roh » f Ji ^ a » 4 i *
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Tie Layman ' s ExGmin&tim of the Bcp . F . $ t 4 m * * C ^ f . ^>
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/29/
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