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Review *—Dr . Milner ' s Consecration Sermon . 1 $ 5
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vice * would it not be quite as proper , safe , and useful , to furnish them with translations of the Scriptures in social worship ? However , according to the author , iC the Latin , being learnt by men of education in every country , so far from being an un-Icnown language , is precisely the language which is most generally known / ' But how can it be
u most generally known , " when , « in almost every country , " it is unintelligible to at least jSfteen persons out of twenty ? What proportion , for example , of the right reverend preacher ' s audience at St . Chad ' s ' understopd him , when he spoke of a tepi $ manner of complying with the duty of public worship ? To how feiv of them , on the contrary , would he have been obscure , had he substituted for this latinized epithet tbe English adjective lukewarm ! ( 10 . ) After all , his reasoning in flavour of a liturgy in one of ** the learned unvarying languages , " would not be amiss were religion the business of none but cc men of education . * ' ( 37 . )
He claims sanctity Jor his communion : I believe in the holy catholic church / ' The church so calling itself has been adorned , ve know , by some characters of distinguished excellence . Fenelon a pastor , and Pascal a member of the Gallican branch of it , are names which we can never pronounce without more than ordi * nary respect . But , were it proper for religious communities to boast of their holiness , there are Protestant societies which , as we are persuaded , have been at least equally illustrious for true piety
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and virtue : * tnd Dr . M . we conceive , lays undue stress upon certain acts of self-denial , ' which , in themselves , are equivocal marks of vital sanctity ; while , in behalf of thefri , he refers to texts * which , in the judgment of the best commentators on the Scriptures , are , exclusively , descriptive of the situation and duties of men in the very first age of Christianity . ( 38 , 3 Q . )
u third mark of the true church , ' * he thinks " so conspicuous , so glaring , that it is almost incomprehensible , that any Christian , believing in his creed , shou'd , for a moment , hesitate to point her out . If I ask you , what chu / ch you profess , in the Apostles * Creed ^ to believe in , you answer me , * the holy fcA * tholic church . ' If I proceed to ask you , Pi ay , are you a catholic ?* You reply , * No , 1 am . a Protestant / And , if I further interrogate you , Is there any place in this town where tlie ^ catholics meet to perform divine worship V You will not fail to point out this chapel , or else that other catholic chapel on the adjoining hill . Who can hear this
without exclaiming in admiration , How is it possible that you can believe in the catholic church , without being yourself a catholic ?' " Afterwards he tells his hearers , " I do not so much insist on the name itself of catholic , as I do on the thing signified bv that name . Catholic , a word derived from the Greek , means urn versa x .. ( 40 , 41 . ) We persuade ourselves that it will not be difficult to show the fallacy of his argument , and to prove , that he has done nothing more than avail himself of the sound of the expression . It happened , after the first and purest age of tjie Christian religion , that , when theological controversies took place , the party , be they what they might , who found themselves in the majority , and were under the smiles of the civil power , claimed to be the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/35/
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