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years elapsed before the imagined hostility of the kancastriaB system to the church of England was attempted to ^ e&hewn . It is highly probable that when Dr . B ? H readily g& ve Mr- Lancaster , whom he knew to he of the society of Friends , every advice and assistance in his power , this hostility was unperceivecl by him : it is raore than probable that our ve ~ nerable sovereign , the members of his family and the great persoiiages who have aided and protected Mr jLaneaster , were rationally insensible to the danger . Tbey have seen , as we see , that this system , more effective and ( Economical than Dr . Bell ' s , may Wand has beea converted with equal ease to the immediate service or wants of the establishment .
On this principle , and with this view , it has fejeen encouraged , if we are rightly Informed , by the university which Dr . Marsh adorns . P . aj . " In the one form it is a church of England education : in the other form it is not so .
Dr . M . should have added ^ as truth and candour demanded , " but is equally capable of being made so . " Ib . note ( $ 7 ) . € ( It appears , however ,
to be more favourable to Unitarianism tlun to any other form of religion , at lc ^ st if the report be accurate , which was printed in the Morning Chronicle of June 6 th , la * t , relating to the meeting of the friends of the Unitarian Fund . %
J"is , we take it , is an instance ° f the argument ad invidiam . Wh a tever be its point , it has no force , telum imbelle sine ictu . If j udicious instruction he
favourable to reading and inquiry , it ^ ust , ultimately , be favourable to truth . Will Dr . IVf . deny this ^ position ? Or wHl lie shrink
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from the application of it to conformity and dissent , to Trinita * rianism and Unitarianism ? It is only on the admission that UnitsU rianism is the truth , that it Can be promoted by the diffusion of the Lancastrian system . Yet the process is so gradual , the event , according to human feelings and opinions , so remote , that , surely ^ we may have credit given us for the common sense and common charity of not being actuated exclusively or immediately by any such consideration .
2 $ . — « The state has made an alliance with the church . " Just as much as with any thing else which rests upon the will and the provisions of the state . Happily for the public , the church is
a dependent power , nor capable , as Warburton and Dr . M . have dreamt , of contracting an alliance .
Ib . " By detaching men from the church , we create divisions in the state . " \ The fact is denied . Disaffection to a particular form of doc ^ trine or discipline , implies no disaffection to a government of which
the principles are solid and the administration mild and just . We speak with rational confidence when we say that there are no better subjects of the state than the dissenters of this country . Men
who conscientiously render unto God the things which are God ' s , will conscientiously render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar s . But they will not , like Dr , M . confound the one with the
other , lest they be in danger of forgetting both-P . 30 . note ( 34 )* " It is to be hoped that we shall never foil to join hand and heart in promoting objects pf general btBCVolenee . "
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£ > rqft $ sor ma * i > h > ± cermoti on Education . 555
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/43/
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