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Art . II . The Substance of a Sermon , preached at the Blessing vf the Catholic Chapel of St . Chad , in the Town of Birmingham ^ on Sunday , December 17 , 1809 . By the Right Rev . Dr . Mil * tier ? Bishop of Castabalay in Cilicia , V . A . F . S . A * SfCm Birmingham , printed and sold . Sold also by Wiikie and Go * London * 8 vo . pp . 4 & . ( Continued front page %% . )
u second preliminary remark which * ' Dr . M . is desirous of making , is , that if , after all ^ we caivnot agree in faith and religion , we are , by the confession of all parties , bound to unite ia the affection and services of Chris *
tian charity . * ' In this sentiment we most heartily concur : others of a similar cast present them , selves in his discourse ; and he has thus given an example , which it will be the honour and happiness of Protestants to imitate .
( P-16 . ) He now examines the first of the above-mentioned rules , that of a special revelation /'— At the first breaking out , " says he , cc those unhappy dissentions in religion , which have convulsed the Christian world during almost
three centuries , a considerable portion of the reformervso called , professed to be immediately guided by the spirit of God in their religious opinions ai \ d conduct . " ( P - 16 , 17 . ) The statement is not
quite so accurate as we could have wished * No very large
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Review *—rl ) r . Milner ' s Consecration Sermon . 13 ?
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number of the reformers ever pr& . tended to be under the direction of a special revelation , but avowed , on the contrary , that the Scri p * tures were the rule of their faith
and practice . He informs us , moreover , that ** the same rule has been followed by different denominations of Protestants down to the present day . " ( Ib . ) By some it , no doubt , has : yet ne « ver by a majority ; never by
anygreat p roportion ; and , unques - tionably , not by those from whon * the body of Protestants has taken its complexion . There is no
more propriety , no more justice , m his availing himself of the ex * travagancies of certain religionists , to insinuate a charge against the Protestant cause , than there
would be in our charging upon the Romish pommunion all the freaks and follies of sojne of the monastic orders . His favourite axiom , namely , That cannot be
the rule of truth which is found to conduct to error , is really an identical proposition . As a practical maxim , nevertheless , it r « -
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jreverend author for his efforts to extertd and facilitate the knowledge of Hebrew and its kindred languages . We heartily join him in the wish , which his quotation from Franzius intimates , that candidates for the ministry were initiated in these tongues at an earlier age than they are usually taught . Ignorant of them , no
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man can attain to any great pro * ficiencv in sacred criticism , or b « & able fully to avail himself of the theological labours of many of his predecessors and contemporaries . The typography of this little manual does credit to the well-known provincial press ( Mrs . Hodgson ' s , of Newcastle upon Tyne , ) from which it issues .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/33/
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