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^ ta ^ bfl ^ h ^^ lth ^ rf ^ Jr or disregard , xbe ^ do vioieoe ^ y ; t > y < tfws d iversi ty of opinion , t 0 the article apd , the spirit of the Cburch of jKnglansk : If we ask , £ > jf sghat purpose wene ^ dthose articles fr # ff *« d > a « 4 6 ( Ub ^ ripibioA Northern en * iolin ^ ^ he reply must be , Jmrthcavoidtftf * * diversity s qf , " opinion ^ , awrf ^ or //* e Bstablishtiig <} f consent touching true rdi ^ own . * This consent hoWever a
religious establish men t cannot secure , can ^ - not ) indeed produce ; , and that variety i ) f sentiment among it ' s officiating as well as it ' s private menahers which Mr . C . appears to eulogize , betrays it ' s weakness and manifests it ' s evil /
endeney ; that unity of spirit and that 't > oncl of peace of which he here boasts , are not in truth preserved and , while the restriction of articles continues * they cannot be preserved ( as existing controversies prove they cannot ) except by the aid of some other bond , that of ignorance or of insinr
eenty . If the Established Church be tolerant in its practice , we arei indebted , under God * for her tolerance to the progress of knowledge ., inquiry and rational freedom , and to the spirit of the British constitution : if her institutions are useful , they are those of them which she maintains in Goramon with almost
every Christian denomination . To obtain the approbation of a consistent Nonconformist , she must be reformed iA-a degree that we cannot expect to witness ,. ' . l . , • * ..- ¦ ¦ :, , ¦ sr Concerning the denomination to
which himsejf belongs , Mr . C . allows ( $ Q ) t } i 4 t \ t has it ' s defects as well as if $ excellencies * jthat it has , conformed tfiq rnucli to , ' the world s and that it has declined , 111 it ' s zeal , and consequently in it ' s numbers . But he tells trs that were are still rnany highly valuable ajja respectable characters to be found l ft , lt * s ze&l , we conclude , has not been a " proselytuig zeal !" In our author ' s judgment , * ' every sfstem of opinion : \\< xs it ' s difficulties as well a ^ iVs advantages : "
h ' . The candid » ud thoughtful Calvlriist y $ s % $ ) lpyt that b ^ s $ y » te n ^ s in appearance *^^ $ Vyfca , t ^ arsb , an 4 wUtates ; against ^ justk and goodness of God . The ^^ Tijin |^ iap mi | s ^ allow tha ^ there TKfWMJy passages of Scripture which speak u ^^ tt p ^^ r , o 4 fw \ a derived M * jng and , ^^ '' ifWi' jW . ' . ^ ' . r <) 1 > . ¦ . " ¦ v i ¦ r— . ^ * &i > Hist / to \ flki Puritans Cedittd VTinmi ) , I . 160 . ff
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dependent on his Father . The candid S <* clni ^ n must concede that it is not very easy to reconcile some declarations of the ^ B A ^ B ^ B Al - ¦ - - _
^^^^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Gospel with the notion of the simple humanity of Ch * isfc : aad I , as an Ariait . ant really to acknowledge thafe my system wi iW > t free , fcom difficulties ^ > i Indeed the idea of tbat exalted Person whosi | under God , X regard a $ the Maker * a d / Oov * exr » or of the wuchj * beoomipg : an j infant , and lialjl ^ % m all the wajjts ot mortality , appears to some so strange tUat they cannot cinbiace it *"
Very strange , and even wonderful , it appears to ourselves ! Yet this is not th « reason of our refusing to embrace it : for could Mr . C . prove hrs tenet to be the doctrine of the Scrips
tures , it should instantl y be the subject of our faith . The whole paragraph might provoke and warrant animadversion : but we are not particularly disposed to extend the limits of this article .
In the third sermon the preacher makes these further remarks on tfa <» religions denomination to which he belongs , and in which he would comprehend the Presbyterians and moderate Independents ( 36 ) : " When I call to mind the illustrious names and characters which have adorned
this body 6 f Christians , the two Henrys , with Watts and Doddridge ;; .. Chandler and Barker and Pickard ; Price and Fanner ancl I < ftirneaux ; Towgood , Urwick and the . two Worthingjtons , with others that might be mentioned ; I feel it an honour to btilonjj to this denomination of Christians- "
The grouping is somewhat incon * gruoqs . Not stopping , h ! owever to-takc » critical exceptiotis , we' acknowledge the high . respectability ojf these names ; and , " with a zeal of admiration not in- *
feripr to Mr . Carpenter ' s , we could ^ eulogize alnxost every one ojf these chaitacters . If names .,-were concerned ^ and not evidence , such an array woulA be' trujy formidable-Our author goes on :
" When I consider the nu&erous and flourishing congicgattonfe whioh belonged to this respectable body from the beginning to tbe ^ middle of the last century , and thegreater or less decline of almost all those congregations since that period , I aafci
whence arises this decline ? It . cannot be ^ from death . That has equally fttta ^ Ved other societies .... Ha ^ , it arisen from perae ^ cation ? No i [ ibx ; except i ^ a partial . arid , solitary instap ^ we hav e had - the fttli . K « j tldni -rti * ' t&Zfoaytlhp % hmak > d hhvf « a ^ to Of lcit'io trsT , but ot ^ lr rk dbrU hkvc beeti
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Jfc&l < M ^( & * pmt 4 r * Se * rmom on -Christian Pmc& and Unky . 4 % l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/45/
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