On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
MOiSTTHLY RETIIOSPECT OF PtJjBLtC AFFAIRS; OR, , Tkt Christian's Survey of the Political World.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
crs , Wittier froiir dot b * iii ^ abte coin-I > ly coriscientioiasly With its requisitions , or pot being able to understand its , mysterious asd ill-digested clause * , will be prosecuted and ultimately imprisoned : Wltai inust follow ? Our ministers consider t he tns elves &s
obourid to preach wherever aud whenever they have an opportunity of exercising their abilities- With SU Paul thty consider that & necessity i « laid on them to preach the gospel , rind that a most dreadful woe would fall on them if they preached not thf ; gospel . We are sure , hbvrever , thai tney
would preafch . I would express itiy gratitnde to God , that the spirit of the t > ld Nonbonfbrmisitsi of tiie primitive Cbristiaus , of the Apostles of Cnrist , is not yet extinguished among-st us . If bur mihisters were put in prison they Would preach as soon as ever they came out , though it
might be at the extreme hazard of being immediately remanded . Yes Sir , they wouia ^ realcA in prison ; tney would preiach through- the ^ gftat efc to the people in the street * . If this were denied thern ^ they woul 4 preach to their fellow-prisoners in the gaol-yard ,. Yes , tliey v would do more . Our brethren , the Methodists , would endeavour
to raise a society in prison * We , Dissenters of the older school , would endeavour to form a church . Our brethren , the Baptists , would have no objection to baptize the gaoler $ and we , Presbyterians an <| Independents , to baptize his household . "—i > p . 11 , 12 . Rev E , HARE .- ^~ These are some of those mischiefs with which the proposed measures are pregnant , per-
Untitled Article
A Very extraordinary article appeared in one of our papers , purporting that the Bi&HO ;? - OF CmcH ^ sTER had , in a charge to his , clergy at Lewes , expressed a fear that owing to tjt ^ c rapid increase of DidM ^ oter ^ and scctirieg , the religion of the Church hi England would no more , ^ c the T rcli ^* Qnv qF t % majority pf the na ^ ipn :, and he exhorted His ^ rgy to exc / t nH jt ^ e ^ r effort * to jjw ^ crv ^ an catfblisliment , whose overthrow would b * accompanied by the overthrow of
Untitled Article
ha p * , dtHera ^ tiH ^^ e ^ tfc ^ e ^ You cannot prdpfexly comsi ^ er t ^ fefc iu any other light than in that of preliminary steps towards further eucroachnients on thofie invaluable ngttg sirid privileges which trtfdter the rei « hi of his
piesent majesty we have « Aj 6 y . ed » , No man who knows his business will introduce the ^ thick eud of the wedge first , but ihe small oue will mate a wa ^ for it . llris Bfll I consi ^ as the sm ^ II end of the wedge , aud if it be once introduced ; men will soto *
be found who will drive it home to the head . Tnese first encroachments it is therefore our duty , if possible , fo prevent ; arid on this ^ tdutid it ig % decided opinion , aud . I believe the opinion of every individual in the assembl y ^ that we ought to oppose ife Bill hi alUts MttgeSy by every t ( Mh tutiottal ftiea ^ sr—p ; &U
A postscript sidies thalt in ariswer to several reidltitiohs o f tHariks , h ^ na ^ jta ^ letters hafye Be ; eh rfetei ^ ed frori * L ^ rdis Stiah . hope , Holland and Erskine , and frdm ttife Marquis 6 f Lansdotrrie , thit
all e ^ presiiv ^ ' of ^ ttttacfcrrii' ^ t to ( he catisfe of rtli ^ bi ]^ HBettJ of tHfeit deterhairifittiori to support it on all occasions , and of tttir hopes , that the rejection of Lord Sidihouth'i Bitt his pdvbd the way
to a successful attempt lit the repeat of the teligiott * penal corfc , Ai hx > diittuhi period . ' *
Untitled Article
the state . Now , it his Lordship realty uttered the * e words , and feels the alarm confined in them , we can set him pei > fectly fct case In < $ nc respect , the turn that m apprehended to the state . First , the ruin of the church is expected , from its having ceased to be the religion oX tl ? c majority . Now this may be a very iiiconvchierit ind disaereeabte
distance to the Church , but ruiri may long U delayed . Thtf Church may continue * long while , like a wall out of it * P *
Untitled Article
so * -stati of public jmiti .
Moistthly Retiiospect Of Ptjjbltc Affairs; Or, , Tkt Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MOiSTTHLY RETIIOSPECT OF PtJjBLtC AFFAIRS ; OR , , Tkt Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/56/
-