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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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p . S " . The Dudley Double Lecture in theWhitsun Week , is of long standing : and it is supposed to have been instituted by some ejected Ministers , who , after the Bartholomew Act in 1662 , resided
in the neighbourhood , from a principle of piety and sacred friendship . Its origin was ,. there - fore , different , and , at a distance of some years ^ from those provincial assemblies , which arose out of the " establishment or
Pres-Jbyteriamsm , after the death pf Charles [ . and of which there are some remaitis in Lancashire and Devon . These were formed on the principles of an ecclesiastical
hierarchy : and there were evident proofs exhibited , about 6 ( X years after they had lost the support of the state , of the intolerant spirit , which has always disgraced the proceedings of synods and church
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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Among the disputes , which have taken place in the world , producing war and blopdshed , and the devastation of the earth , none bring more „ disgrace wpon the professors of Christianity " than those on religious liberty . A Christian intolerant ! ' What a misapplication of
terms ! A disciple of the crucified Saviour , who in his last moments prayed for ^ his enemies ^ to be a persecutor , what as it but to crucify his Saviour afresh ! Men may profess Christianity with their Souths , but they have it n 6 t in their hearts if they can deny to fheir brother the right of worshipping God in any
manner he pleases . Christianity was introduced into the world by loye not by force ; * nd it yrill prevail , where love is used ; % ut the moment force pretends to take * ts part , it shrinks from such friendship , * nd scorns the alliance / WJiy ha * Chri * -
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Hierarchies ; when the trinitarian controversy was agitated in the West of England . The Lecture at Dudley , it is conceived , has ever been sacred merely to Christian fellowship and religious edi « , fication , without any mixture of
a spirit of dominion over the faith of " others . At the beginning of the eighteenth century , the neighbouring congregations with that which statedly belongs to the place , supplied a numerous
auditory . * Of -late years ^ after a remissness of attendance for som £ time past , a disposition to encourage it has again appeared ; and the Lecture , though itot crowded , has not wanted a respectable audience .
* Memoirs of the Rev . John Reynolds , p . ia 8 *
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tianity been 3 t a stand for many years ? why are the professors so alienated from the truths of the gospel ? We need look but little way for a sufficient reason . They haVc depended on the arm of flesh for their support ; they have formed themselves into little knots and factionsj supported by the civil power they have
despised , ill-treated , persecuted , murdered those , who happened not to be born in , or who for conscience sake have deserted their little pale All these things have been done , by men calling themselves Christians , Protestants equally the same as Papists . John Calvin was an atiocious murderer , and hi $
© pinions have had but too much weight in the world . Men have delighted in calling themselves by the name of thi » oir t hat man , in belonging to this or that church , forgetting that all our aim shouH
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State of Public Affairs . 379
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/59/
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