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to keep alive the spirit of national animosity , to foster our prejudices , and to excite indignation at the conduct of our enemies , rather than penitence and humiliation for our own ? And can it be maintained , that this is consistent with the character of Christian divines ?
It is assuredly their business to counteract such feelings , to teach us to Jove our enemies , and thus to promote the great object of their master , 4 * peace on earth , goodwill towards men /*
If to maintain from the pulpit certain general principles were sufficient to keep in check the disposition to violate them , we should at least not have to complain of the indecency in profligacy ? which is not only practised by political
characters ^ but defended by their partizans . Charge my lord A . or Mr . B-with any act of corruption , you are answered neither by a denial nor by an acknowledgment of
the offence ; but by a retort on my . Lord this , or on Mr . that , the supposed idol of the accuser . Can any thing more clearly Evince the necessity for an interference not now exercised to rescue us from
the trammels of party , from an attachment to men which exists in the very teeth of principle ? And where are we to look for such interference ? Where , if not to those persons who have voluntarily undertaken to promulgate the Christian religion ?
On you then , the disciples of Jesus , I now solemnly call ! Cease I bevseech you to act under the influence of a prejudice by which your sphere of usefulness is so materially abridged . Ask yourselves , fearlessly and in the spirit of candour , if this duty belongs not to
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the calling you have chosen . Be the faithful apostles of Christ * Extend the influence of his religion ;—connect it with the consideration of our national con * - cerns , by a due application of his precepts to our national practice . Exhort us daily ) while it is called to-day , lest any of us be hardened
through the deceitful ness of sin ; and while you proclaim that in every station and on all occasions , the principles of Christian morality are the best guide for our conduct , teach us , that if , as a nation , we countenance our public servants
in the neglect of them , it will be in vain for us to look for an exemption from those evils which we may learn from the history of mankind have , sooner or later , uniformly fallen on the people who have permitted their rulers without re * monstrance to pursue a career of iniquity A . LAY DISSENTER .
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Mr . Belsham ' s Reply to the Rev . H . Horsley . —Letter IV * Essex House , June 15 1813 . Sir , The author of the Calm Inquiry has represented Bishop Horsley as borrowing nearly the whole account of his church of orthodox
Hebrews at ZElia , from Mosheim ' s book ^ de rebus Christianorum , ttnte Constantinum , without sufficiently acknowledging the obligation . The bishop indeed allows , Lett . vii . § 5 . that he had Ci first learned from
Mosheim how to rate the testimony of Origen ;> ' but as to all the other circumstances , as though he had acquired the knowledge of them , from his own previous investigation , he only says , "Air , this , I affirm with the less hesitation , being sup *
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Mr . Belsham ' s Reply to the Rev . H . H&rsley . 3 & $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/27/
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