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    Under the cant of a party . We apprehend that serious and intelligent Calvinists must join with the author in reprobating the at . tempt to make a trade of religion . ts

    The , Barrister ^ opponenhave endeavoured to silence him with the usual cry of ' Mystery , " but in vain : he shews , ^ think , with great aptness of argument and expression , that mysteries can never be objects of faith . The former •« Parts'' of the

    u Hints' * countenanced ^ as appeared to us , tlie project of checking oiethodism by the civil power . Against this , though no method * is £ s nor favourers of methodism , we loudly protested , as Britons and as Christians * We were

    aware , indeed , that the Barrister disclaimed the spirit of persecution , but we interpreted his language to imply , nevertheless , an approbation of certain wholesome restraints and severities . This

    last C Part" has set our minds at case ; for we now understand how an appeal may be made to the legislature against methodism , without recommending persecution ; though we still think that our construction of the author ' s

    expressions was very natural , if not perfectly just . —The Barrister exhorts Parliament to revise and purify the thirty -nine articles , u articles , ** ( he saya , p . 153 . )

    u can ever be a proper foundation for any man ' s faith . In a revealed religion , they must always be useless , because there can be no necessity to resort to , much lets to rest on , any human decision .

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    " If such articles were attempted t # be introduced at this day * the whole kingdom would be in a ferment from one end to the other . ~ Such a despotic encroachment on all the principles of

    religious freedom !—Such a flagrant violation of the indelible right of pri-Tate judgment!—No nian would consider the CONSTITUTION of England Z % worth ten days purchase . '

    In these observations , we thoroughly concur , and we cordially join in the Barrister ' s wish that all the relics of moakery and persecution were destroyed . —By his design , as . now explained , the

    author may not increase his popularity with the most violent enemies of the methodists , but he will , we flatter ourselves , secure the approbation of the most en * lightened advocates of Christian * ity . ^

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    Art . III . The propriety , importance and advantages of Religious Resolutions , considered in a Sermon , preached Sept . 23 1510 , at the Unitarian Chapel ^

    Tenterden , at the particular request of several young persons 9 ballot ted to serve in the Local Militia . By Lawrence Holden . 8 vo . pp . SO . Is .

    Like a good shepherd , Mi * . Holden has here welLproyisioned a portion of his flock , taken , for a time , from under his care . We trust that his pastoral counsels

    will not be in vain , and that a military life will not seduce any ofvthe youths to whom this sermon was addressed , from their allegu ance to religion and virtue .

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    40 Review . * - —Holden 9 Militia Sermon .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/46/