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is equally their superiority in Jcnbw * - ledge and active virtue and their inferiority in civil honoursand political rights . A .
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No . ccxevrr . Curious Introduction of a Sermon . The following is the Exordium of a Sermon , published in 17-57 , with this title , " A Sermon preached at the Parish of W —n , in Gloucestershire , on the * Fast Day . Now published to vindicate the author from
several late cruel and unjust assertions on the occasion . 8 vo . Price ( xl . Scott . " ( See Crit . Rcvieiu , HI . 1 ( 38 , l 6 g . ) 1 Cor . vi . 10 , For ye are bought with a price . The words of this text , though
ttken from an obsolete and long since exploded book , are still to be found in the closets of some antiquarians ; to whose particular cariosity , ingenuity , of vanity perhaps , we are obliged for the preservation of the whole .
r whole volume , consisting of two distinct books , by name the Old and New Testament , was wrote for the instruction of mankind in general , when in the dawn and infancy of their understanding . As they grew on ' to riper years and maturer
judgnrents , there was no necessity for the legislature to condemn , censure , or lay 'it * aside ; for it naturally dropt of its o ^ n sel f , when they wisely thought tKere was no further occasion for its assistance .
Xhe odds at Arthur s and other such excellent academies of science , arc , that there is no such being as a Providence or God ; this can be no match , as the cant word is there , among themselves , fpr they arc all of one -mind in an house , and never will
suffer any strangers to mingle with them : and come abroad into the less po-Htite world , how little chance is there of an alteration of thinking or acting , there , where manners and fashions equally descend from the great to the small ? for what the nob ! email
begins , the peasant generally ends . J&at xfsays our author ) to the words of my text , ye are longht with a price . The bribed returning officer first buys the poor voter , by money , promises , * rt threats : the wealthv candidate next
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buys rjie returning officer ; the minis « ter buys the member , and the minister at fast is bought himself . Fathers sell their sons , mothers sell their daughters , friends sell one . another ; Ye are all sold andhonght wilh a price , 'Tis true indeed , ( says this comical divine ) , that certain maxims contained
in this obsolete book , are still retained amongst us . Thus the visiting f . Ue sins of the father unto the third ^ 1 rid fourth generation , is still visible in the practice of a late m y , who never forgave even the god-son of a
father , though he was no relation ,, if ever that god-father voted against their pernicious and destructive measures . But not only persecution was a favourite and adopted virtue of theirs ; patience and humility , though not entirel y the same as recommended
in the obsolete book , is highly in practice among the people in general of this kingdom , particularly the upper rank of them . They have the patience daily and hourly to be dunned by their tradesmen and creditors ,, without returning one evil word at all ; they have the patience to hear a whole kingdom ' s voice agajnst their corrupt and illicit practices , without .
changing countenance in the least ; and they have the further patience 9 forbearance and long suffering , to wait for pensions , places , sinecuies , and victualling or other beneficial contracts , till in the dirty pursuit of them they very patiently sink what little fortunes their fathers and honest
ancestors bravely and honourably laboured to give them . If a private unbeneficed clergyman , for instance , marries or injures the fair reputation of a great man ' s daughter , in or , dcr to marry her to more advantage , and of a sudden we see
him raised to splendid dignities and golden honours , what can we say ? but that in spite of all heresy , oaths of simony and other trifles of tnat nature , as they certainly are now-a-days , the preferment he enjoys is bought with a price ; as without this lady ' s kind assistance , or the family ' s lucky pride , to preserve her tender and unblemished ,
because unknovvn reputation , a secret , he might still have remained on his usual pittance in Wales of « s £ lO a year , exclusive of his other benefices —~» rhc tap and his cremona , those ever faithful fjiends to the clergy df thrat glorious principality .
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di . EANiKGS ; OR , SELECTIONS ANp REFLECTIONS MADE INT A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/38/
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