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Barrister , shake hands , pay their reckoning honestly , and retire straight to their respective homes . There is nothing " unconstitutional" heie . The Barrister ' s alarms so
increase upon him whilst contemplating Evangelical Associations that he apprehends nothing less than a revolution , and fancies he sees the National Convention already established . In the perturbation of his mind , he confounds societies totally distinct , and blends in sad disorder
Independents and Methodists , the ministry and the laity . Before he had brought his cause before the public tribunal , he should have taken care to understand it . An accuser who mistakes the persons whom he means to convict
pronounces his own condemnation . Jn 1806 , the Calvinistic Methodists , with the well known Rowland Hill at their head , " formed themselves into a general body , designated " The Associate
Congregations : " and at the Missionary Meeting in 1807 , the //* - dependents resolved to form a " General union of congregational ministers and churches throughout England and Wales . " These
latter disclaim in an " Address /' containing the plan of their association , any intention of trespassing on the province of the Deputies o j' the Dissenting congrega *
twns > in and about London ^ for the protection of the civil rig / tts ° J the Dissenters , whose labours they highly applaud , and the printed " account" of whose
proceedings they recommend to every dissenting minister . Jumbling together " the Associate congre gation * , " the " Congregational ministers and churches "
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and the " Deputies , " the Barrister indignantly exclaims , " What ! are then the Legislature and the Laws so inadequate to the maintenance of the cih > il rights of the subject , that this New Priesthood must come forth in their defence ? Are
the . twelve Judges so incompetent or so corrupt that a corps of Calvinistic Methodists must form themselves into a Protectorate ? Are these Deputy Defenders of ths Faith to usurp the authority of magistrates , and invest themselves with the poiver to preserve those Civil Rights ao-ainst the violation of them on trre
part of the existing government , or the abandonment of them by the legal tribunals of the kingdom ; for it is only against the encroachment of the former or the corruption of the latter , that the Civil Rights of the Community can need protection ?!( ' * S , urely these c Deputies of the Dissenting Congregations in and
about London , ' are taking upon them weightier concerns than are consistent with their holy function I If indeed , the purport be to prepare the people to look to the New Spi ritual Power for official vindication of their civil right i ^ in
this case , the object is to a- certain extent , accomplished . But most certainly , this , to say the lea > t of it , is not the shape which Religion should assume in society . And those who are thus active in introducing into this country , such committees and associations and
conventions , as we are now adverting ; to , may be among the best friends and the foremost allies of Calvinism , but they are among the worst and most dangerous enemies of the CoNSTiiu ^ TION . " p . 104 , I 95 .
This pnsssige , made so sigmficant by the printer , contains much lervid oratory , arising out of i * ridiculous blunder . The Deputies are not part of " the Associate congregations , " or " the Co neve *
gational churches : " they are not a spiritual much less a new spim , 7 'itual power : they are not Me ~ > thodists . ; they existed bcibro methodists sprung up : they are not Calvinists only ., but fair representatives of the London Pro testant Dissenters ; they are 1 x 04
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Review . —Hints on Evangelical Preaching * 507
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/51/
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