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priests but laymen , no regular minister ever acting as a deputy they are chosen annually , two from each congregation of the three denominations , ( Presbyterians , Independents and Baptists , ) and are generally the most
opulent , intelligent and active members of such congregations . Of the deputies for the p resent year , Mr . Wm . Smith , M . P . for Norwich , ( known to be not a Calvinutic Methodist but an Uni *
tartan , ) is chairman ; Mr . Gurney ^ the Barrister ' s brother b y profession , deputy-chairman . The object of the deputation is to
Avatch over the rights and privileges of their constituents and of their brethren throughout the kingdom , and to defend them from the encroachments of the national
church on the one side nnd of the Methodists or } the other . The Barrister will not deny that Dissenters have " civil rights , " or that they may legally associate for their protection , or if nccdfuL
their enlargement : and the history of the proceedings of their deputies ( which we recommend him to peruse before he writes the third part of the Hijnts ) will shew him numberless instances of the
utility of the plan of association which they have long adopted . — We have discharged our duty in pointing out this egregious mistake ; the Barrister will not have fulfilled his , till he has acknowledged and corrected it . His pamphlet will circulate wjierc this article cannot be read , and
amongst persons who have no knowledge of the Dissenters but what they may learn- from his
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erroneous statements ; it behoves him therefore as a friend to truth and candour to enter his justifi , cation of the deputies upon the same record in which they have been so strangely mis-represented .
In several passages of the Hints , besides the above , thie Dissenters in general are treated as Methodists , and there seems to be a wish to provoke a spirit of opposition towards them" on the part of the church of England , If this be not the Barrister ' s
dosign , if either his language be only unguarded or we have misin terpreted it , we shall be glad to receive his own explanation . We closed our review of the
first part of the < c Hints" with advising the author to be more studious in future of correctness of composition and typography . The second part ( as we have before acknowledged ) less offends the eye and taste of the reader , but it is not without errors . In
one and the same sentence , ( p . S 5 j ) the Barrister uses the tautological epithet , which we observed in the former publica . tion , * ' moral virtue , " and design nates Paley by the improper appellation Mr .
The length to which we have extended this Review , considering the subject ' to be of the first im , portance , allows us only to add that we wish to be moderators
between the Barrister and the pseudo Ei angelicai religionists . Their sentiments we reject and abhor : His spirit amd design we cannot but dislike . They offend agaiust truth : He against charity ..
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508 Review . —Hints on Evangelical Preaching
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/52/
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