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t fcffi ^ VT ^ f ftir . —Tr ^ The . Primer * is MiSiJiit ^^ fisKty ^ X vyi ^ rp ^^ ias ^ o ^ ther h $ ptfrpT s <} fi I ^ r > , Ri $ h ** 4 Wright ' * , Vh # Missionary : be 4 s tj > enperson "Who so grievously offended Uve tqwn .-ciejfk by his want of piety towards Saint Anne . Lord Holland has brought this ruatm into the House of Lords , in a
conversation on Lord Sidmoutb's Circular , to whicli his Lordship attributes the proceedings at Liverpool . As might have been expected from the nephew of Mr . Fox , Lord Holland has expressed strong surprise at the affair . The JBishop of Cheater is rejxjrted to have apologized for the magistrates and
town-clerk , by saying that Mr . Wright was charged on the . testimony of" a respectable Liverpool merchant , " with denying a future state . His Lordship has . been doubtless misinformed , if not With regard to the informer , yet certainly with regard to the ground of his information : and it is not a little
cujhqus that Dr . Law , Bishop of Chester , son of jDr * Edmund Law , Bishop of Carlisle ^ should have been the person to repeat the charge of blasphemy against a Dissenting Teacher * on the ground of his having taught the doctrine of the total mortality of man and
of his sole dependence on a resurrection for immortality ; a , doctrine which the Mi # hop of Chester ' s Father was distinguished Jbr maintaining , which he asserted not as a loose conjecture , but as the . result of long and learned investigations , and which he continued to defend in the successive editions of his
admirable work , Considerations on the Theory of Religion r the last edition of whiclu published not Jong before the venerable author ' s death , is completely Un * iari # n . ^ Oil the whole , there is nothing in this affair to terrify the Unitarians , the
Disaeitters and ths friends of religious libertyjfijsnerally ; but much to set them K > think upon the spirit of the times and the tendency oi the late measures of his Majesty ' s ministers . Their will i& * obvious ; their power has limits . Let the Otieods of freedom , the Dis-$ ent <* rs and especially the Unitarians
be-cautious and temperate , and await the issue . The interval may be trying , but it ,: will be purifying : and it any tessoftk may be learned from history , we tna , y rest assured that the end-will b $ ^* a t ) $ foctory : England has always triiwnifebftd over baa law $ and evil counsellors .
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Services &t Parliament > €$ urt on *~ Mx * Fox ' s entering on the Ministerial : < Zfficfi . On Wednesday , April- theJBnd , M-te W . J . Fox , late of Chichesteff , enteredon the pastoral office of the congregation in Parliament ' Court , Artillery-Lane , Bishopsgate-Street . A religion * service was held on the occasion U >
recognize and improve an event so promising to the future prosperity of the society and the interests of j ) tire Christianity . Our readers are already sufficiently
acquainted with the loss recently sustained by this congregation in the lamented death of Mr , W . Vidler ; and it gives us great pleasure to "ha ^ e so soon to record its re-settlemeilt
with such a valuable successor as they have in their present minister . It was the wish of the parties concerned on this occasion to avoid ^ very thing which under the usual name of ordination , conveys an idea of sohiq
spiritual authority in religious teachers , to impart a distinct character ^ with ecclesiastical powers , to their brethren : —a notion at complete -variance with the religioua equality established by Christ , amongst hti established by Christ , amongst i > w
disciples , and which has in all ages been the fruitful source of priestly domination * and innumerable imposition ' s on the credulity and * consciewces of mankind . The ministers engaged on this occcasion were Mr . T . ReeS »
T . Madge , of Norwich , J . Gilchris ^ , Dr . Lindsay , R . Aspland , and Dr . Rees . After suitable devotional exercises , Dr . Lindsay delivered an interesting discourse on the origin of Christian assemblies for worship , their primitive constitution , and > he character of their teachers . In hfs
usual style of manly eloquence , * he preacher- shewed the difference between a priesthood created by su-peirstition and . pledged to the support of unintelligible creeds or unmeaning ceremonies ; and the pastor o € a primitive church or congregation , their instructor but not their master * thejr
friend , their counsellor , and their guide -y the object of their free ^ hoiec , having no dominion over their faith , but being a helper of tHeir joy . ftfe asserted the perfect ind ^ pendeiicyr o £ all Christian congregation »^ ori ^»« i ^ jU ^ and their righi to" choose jthw iwvfl officers , antf transact wsithout control , all their social concerns ; and con-
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InteUigence . ^ f ^ mc ^ a ^^^^ CoU ^ t rQU ^ JSrUient&fcqfMr . Fox . 24 fc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/55/
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