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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian's Survey of the' Political I For Id*
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State of Public Affairs . 511
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian's Survey Of The' Political I For Id*
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the' Political I For Id *
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various kinds , who have set their own traditions paramount to the word of God and the faith delivered to us by Christ and his apostles . We request the true Christian to consider this .
Abandoned as the church of Rome has been , and sinking as it now is into deserved contempt , , Jet the Christian reflect , whether he is in his own church upholding a similar disgraceful usurpation . For there can be no distinction . Our Lord and Master admits of no rival .
The pope ' s claims are disavowed by every Protestant ; yet how many are there , who submit their mind * to a more . contemptible domination , that of the petty pope of a peering-house ! The Bible is said to be the religion of Protestants ; so the law of Moses was the law
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The injuries and contumelies sustained by the virtuous head of the Romish church , says a morning paper , ought to be recorded . And indeed they ought to be recorded , not as this paper
wishes , to excite compassion for the falling state of that abominable and wicked government , which has so long oppressed mankind , and which still retains in spiritual fetters the inhabitants
of many extensive kingdoms , but to excite the veneration and awe of all true Christians , and to prove to them , that however long and powerful may be the domination of falsehood , it must come to an end , and the pure church of Christ will at last be triumphant over the wicked acts of popes , cardinals , patriarchs , councils and various bodies of
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aMe zeal to prove the truth of the wise man ' s maxim , that the soul be xmthout knoivler / ge ^ it is not goody a truth so selfevident , and so important , that tne it
necessity or aeienumg is no light imputation on the wisdom and virtue of the present times . For this labour of lore , the author i ^ s entitled to the thanks of all his enlightened countrymen .
The King has to his honour been the steady patron of Mr . Lancaster , whom he has favoured with several interviews . This circumstance is naturally brought forward by Mr . Evans , in connection with an expression of his Majesty ' s , which is praised in terms of glowing loyalty .
" It was a noble -wish , which our aged and venerable Monarch is said to have lately expressed to Mr . Lancaster , the benevolent projector of these schools ,
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I WOULD HAV £ EVERY POOft CHII . D IN THE NATION ABLE TO READ THE BIBLE . This was a saying worthy the head of the Protestant established church —it is a jewel in his crown , whose lustre shall never fade away ! " ( p . zS 39 . ) To the sermon is affixed a letter of Sir Richard Philips ' s , the present sheriff of London , to G . Cumberland , Esq . of Bristol ,
dated June 29 , 1808 , on " the precise case of the prisoners in the metropolis as to knowledge , " ia which Sir Richard states ( what is surely an argument in favour of the instruction of the poor , )
" That by far the majority can neither read nor write ; that of ijz prisoners , upwards of one hundred can only make a murky instead of signing- their name ; that when bibles and testaments were lately sent for their use , they were altogether useless to most of them ; and finally , that the generab ' ty of prisoners are so ignorant that they seem to have no sense of the obligation of the laws or any consciousness of reb g ' ious feeling- ** ( p . ax . ) f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/55/
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