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      Answers to Queries ton a Popular PredchzngJ * f f §

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      ANSWERS TO QUERIES O # ' * PO ^ JTkAit PRKAdlJltf G . " '' ' ' LETfctflt ' T : " ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ' 7 . ¦ ' ¦ i ¦ - " ' ' * ' ' •¦ ¦¦¦ . •?' jPd * Ae Editor of the -Monthly Repository .

      SIR , In a former number of your work are some queries , relative * to Popular Preaching , introduced by a correspondent glider the naipe of A Modest Querist ^ and , as iar as they appear to have been sug&tjst-^ a by the proceedings of a society , of which lam a member , I beg

      leave to trouble Votofwith niy afcswers . A , society or Unifan ^ n Christians is £ sta $ ltshed * with " * the view of disseininaring , among the people at ; large ^ pf ( his kingdoHi , * he knowledge of thc ^ & 6 d and Pather of our Lpm Jesus Christy as distinguished ^ frprji that God

      which is i ^ hojraritly worshipped by the g re ^ t ; ' m&oj ^ ityjdt Cliristians ^ undey tlie ki ^ p ^ r the ttoly ; biased Arid glovibus f nnity . TffiB society as orppinioti , that its knowledge pi God | 5 ^ erived frp nj the Holy Scriptures : ** h < l to'tfefese Scriptiires the appeal is _ to be ixiade in every jaddress tp ^ jChrjstiaii audiencfe ; ^ nd to nip other aujji j bnce is it prefsumed , t ^ at ^ h ey WillEave access , as there is np religious body , pub-Jicly knp \ yh , except the Jews , in this kinfiidlom * Vviiich di > es not

      acknowledge the Authority of the New restament , TlicJ nibde a ^ oj ? ted by the , society is * ] to etect' ia committee tp manage Hs concerns ; and this committee gives an account of its proceedings at a yearly meeting . I am not a member of

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      the committee , and know nothing hi 6 r ^ of its conduct , thari by the Repprt , find accidferitall ^ fcy conyersationy if a number of that body fatlls in my wayVb ^ it , froitt all that I 6 ave heard , 1 take great pleitsarein thinking , th ^ thy siiial !

      fnite , for the . prbrfiotion of religious truth , is urideV sudh judiciojis conduct ; and I fe £ t dotifideht iiptf'iUe tcMist , ' reposed iH Hie dohvi ^^ vrtti tie disti lrafgedT 5 wifii i& § utitipkt diiTgehcfei prudeiitfeV kua sanity : > \ •¦ : iH ; •' ¦^•^^ ^• -i Vhe ^ inode adbptefflby th ^^

      sbcUtyli tc ? assist Tysons , * able a * id Wiflipg ; to itticJer ^ k ^' tke task ; to travel in those pWts , Wh ^ re ' twefe js k prdsp ^ ct of tfte irHservices / jBeing xiseful , arid to tetabtfttie know . df

      Iferf ^ thfe trtie "Godt * - ^ They are tBilb this by convefs ^ tibri ari d by f&kchiflg ' ; and th £ teiriiri Popular Fr ^^ ching is used , to distinguish ft nhvti other niodes of pffedching , which , however useful ia dther 1 hfeianc 6 s are not , in the ' opinion of tb 6 s ^ bciety , adapted , to the grand purpose in ^ i £ w . The words Popuj ^ r Pleach iiig ati d Popular Poacher are much iisdd ; - and they

      hdve become out of * repute in sbtnfe classes , frdrii fhte'objects to whiqh they have bcen ^ appti ^ d z these in general are the Methods ists , and that class , in tlve church of England or among the Dissenters , tvhich is kttdwb'fey the nawe ,

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      fieif of that chara c ter , ami have been drawn up with ' rapidity to acconipariy a few translations which are to follow successively . O : f

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      them the reader tH forin his o wit .- . * ?•¦ " . • . ' •' . ¦ • . ' - ,, , •* ' - opinion . ; H / CT . R . - ' ; ¦• ' V • ' - ' " . ¦"> ' : ' "•

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/7/