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time * > and it is vvith inexpressible pleasure we perceive our young ministers introducing themselves to public notice as the enemies of all intolerance , the . friends of universal liberty . Here is the true foundation of Protestant Non-conformity and of Unitari * anism .
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We could not analyze the discourse before us , without taking * up greater room than we usually allot to single sermons ; but we beg leave to recommend it to our readers , as a complete refutation of all the pleas for persecution * a man ] j and spirited exposure of the deformity of bigotry .
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Review . —Clarke ' s Sermon on the Fust Day . GS %
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Art . VI . —The Church of Eng ' land incompletely reformed * A Ser * mon , preached on the occasion of the General Fast , Feb . 17 , 180 S * By George Somers Clarke , D . D . Vicar of Great Walthamy in Essex . 8 vo . pp . 39 . White .
As odd a Fast Sermon as Mr . Stone ' s was a Visitation Sermon ! Dr . Clarke ' s text is Jer . vii . 3 , Amend your ways ; which he addresses , he say 6 not so much to his hearers or to the people at large as to the priests and rulers of the nation , whom he calls upon to reform ( not themselves , but ) the version of the first lessons of . scripture appointed to be read by the ritual of the established church . A parochial minister he adds , is compelled to read psalms and first lessons in translations , which frequently mock and deride his knowledge of the original , disgust him with their absurdity , inadequacy or impropriety , and confuse him with shame for his church , from a consciousness of their being unintelligible to his congregation and scarcely less so to himself . It must have been matter of wonder , if not of admiration to the usual attendants at a country parish charch to have heard so many learned emendations of the version of the first lessons ' successively proposed and recommended , according to " a new
metrical theory" of the author ^ own discovery , such erudite declamation on the captivity m which the clergy have been holden to fc * vowel points , " and oa the glory of " the antemasoretic text "—and such a Self complacent description of the preacher ^ qualifications as an cm en da tor of the cc first lessons , " he having resided * ' twenty years , before the last thirteen , in a place < af learning . " We would not withhold our tribute of applause from Dr . Clarke ' s learning or his zeal for reform , but we wish that as an enlightened and liberal reformer ^ he had not spoken so haughtily of sectaries , oi so dogmatically on the inalienability of the temporal possessions of the church * Oji this latter subject we would recommend to hi * notice the luminous arguments and splendid eloquence of Mr . ( now Sir James ) Mackintosh , in his Vindicice Gallicm , who shews that church lands have none of the characters of property . " It has not hitherto been supposed ( says this equal combatant of Mr . Burke ' s ) that
* We hare read with great satisfaction a Sermon of Mr . Grund y' » f preached at Nottingham ^ February ai , 1808 . being the Sunday following the last General Fast-day , m which there is an animated and eloquent protest against the Copenhagen piracy . We regret that it was printed oaly and not published * Sec our JListot Books , p . %%$ . >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 681, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/45/
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