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ofproteatan t families declare themselves catholics in these critical dines , with a view . to peVsonal security ^ The ^ priestd of the old persuasion possess all the
zcz \ of their . order , heightened by a consciousness o £ the strength of their party * ajid -embittered . )> y a sense of their ppprcssion . —The designs of the Hibernian Society are known and opposed in Ireland . The common people are forbidden
by the priests to- * cctg £ or to pick up religious tracts . ^^ Igbof « rice , exclairii th& Deputies , " is the motlier of their ' jderoiK tionl absurdity is their chosen element PJj Contemptible , indeed , is the fear , oft
knowledge ;! Execrable the attempt to prevent men from reading and thinking © n religion ! The exclamation of the Deputies does them honour . How must they have exclaimed on seeing . since their return , a . Sermon by a dissenting minister , in this enlightened metropolis ^
in which the very plan of the Irish priests is recommended , which Sermon is published at the request of the body of London Independent ministers ! We should like to ^ ee their Report upon this matter . But Mr . J . Clayton only forbids the reading 1 jof improper books / What do his , brethren of ^ Ireland do more ? :
They , too , are zealous and -vigilant of the truth , of evangelical peculiarities , and We fancy , they - would gladly circulate Tsfo * J < Clayton ' s Sermon , with very few alterations ; ' only , for hie Recom * mendatory Index they might substitute , with rnor ^ consistency , an Index Expur ~ gatortus .- ^ T-ThA existence of two language * in Ireland is a bar to the spread of
knowledge ; particularly , as the native Irish / tongue * though cfcmrapnly spoken , is read by comparatively fewy nor can it generally be taught , for want of ele- , xt ^ sntary books «—^ The Deputies sum up their account of the , Roman Catholics with delivering one of the -most offensive sentiments that , with the exception of
tne whole ot Mr * J , CJIaytorFs Sermon , we have latelvffeiet with Jf they say , to translate thciuJnto plain laoguage , that it cannot be hoped that the Jnslf will ever be a loyal and tranquil people till they , are brought off irorn popery ! Is it meant that papist * nevermake good subjeqfe ? or that they nev $ r subnait
chcartuliy to a ; protcttant | ravernnient ? If thefotmkcr ^ mb history of cveryvstate on ih « continent refutes the supposition i if the latter ^ Can « d * ^ w ^ li at once settle ' the < argument . The reflection : shews , th »? . t ^ t ^^|^ ti ^ . ( hai « -jiftM n ,,. a vehu fmShs
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ttarT 6 W view of things ; and that , withr * out intending it , they ajre Very . capa $ t of admihistering filel V ^ tH ' e ^ dfes ftti ^ S ^ S prejudices whi ^ j ^ fevfi sb ^ Ioifej ^ 'Wurt M wa ^ ethe- ^^ riltind . * *~* The Pfotestant Epjacopalians , that isi th ^ lftemberV of the eltaSfiibfed ckirclu
arc computed at hatf a mnildnr ^ rh ^ DeputiesWoiice pity the arduous situation and celisur ^ the indolence of the *! clergy : the chtirc ^ s are for the mbst ^ j > art opehed f > ut pnek a Aay . The cryfhj £ evil of non-r € ^ idence is , however * scarcely touched i » pon . Ireland has a few Evan-v ' eelical or IVrethbdist t IergynieriV iof
whom the I > ep . iii ^ fion naturaH y rejoice . And they recornmepd the | gideav 6 uriB | p to fill Curacies an < J benences in that country with the same description of men . This plan has been successfully " pursuing so ^ he tim e in England , and especially in the merropolis ; and
threatens , we think , to effect a revolution , Irk our View wholly undesirable , in the Established Church . The Fresbyteriahs have upwards of " one hundred and sixty congregations , and are about as numerous as th . e Evh - copaliansi They abound chiefly to thJj
north of Dublin . Some of the congregations are much reduced , arid but for ' the allowance from government would expire ^ others are very flourishing , A circumstance transpires in the " Report concerning the Presbyterians whicli has ' been long known to us . They have departed from { he essential articles of faith \ that is , theV Anp no longer CaX-, vinists ! To this cause the Deputies ,
aa was to be expected , attribute the tiecay of such , congregations as have declined ; but with a perversenes , s which can be accounted for only from a party spirit , they will not allow that the advantageou * exterior of the more numerous one toi ? ars any relation to the same circumstance . The fact is , we believe , that
a large proportion of the Irish Presbyterians are * like their brethren in En ^ larid ^ Unitarians ; and we confidently lnok forward to their declaring tKemielves . and co-opecating Vvith those English Dissenters who now assume that honourable name . * .. . the
Seced ^ ers frorr ^ Preabytenan $ , who ' have hitherto been divided , As * in SvotS land , into Burghers aixd Anti-feu rehers . ( though the distinction ** Vi ^ W $ aw 3 k * f have abwt ninety copgrega # |» , . « Bp appean from tlffli Report -tenaci ^ usiy C ^ Jvjri' « ti 9 , < . _
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/53/
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