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Christian Eqwt ^ t&j < & S&rnm lyxMr ^ Eddowes * at Philadelphi a * gpfr
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egcistir \ g ca ^ a ^ ii ^ e ^ but the origin of alk social cpmplaints . must ) be / xl < iepei | in th £ sojsiaLconstittttyiofi , thai * ekheil t \\ p auacl >§ , or the most skUfol rpo-. Hticai physicians have generally perceived a \\ d confessed ., P 4 at : Uaiiieiuary rej ^ rrn might ( ami 1 think would ) cijjre Old England of galloping
consurftption ; but most old constitutions Hav $ a complication of diseases which cannot he . eradicated fro id the system , because the medicine which rennoves one only aggravates another . In this case the patient cannot expect complete recovery , but must resign to death in hope of a blessed resurrect
tion T . he ngtasterly dissector ( in the opijjjon of the person writing this ) of human , nature and human society , concerning- \ yl >© m your Correspondent inquires , is Mandeville , author of the Kable of the Bees . If all readers derive-as mueh benefit from the above work as . 1-think I have derived , they
will speak as highly of the author . But of opinion and taste , &c . there is 'no absolute standard . If 1 thought that . this notice-ofMatuleville would by any accident * : c # me > under the eye of Dr . Maithus , I would request of him as a special favour tfeat he would point out 2 l few pf < thoseudexteraus
rnisnorners , in which he says the reason * ing consists , by-whigh- % \ i& author of the Fable ; of the- Bees supports his shocking sysfcqrn * I cannot believe thafr Dr . Malthus would join the common hue . and cry * against an unpppular author , the better to . escape popular clamour himself ; yet though in consequence of the foregoing heavy censure I took up the Fable of the Bees for
the V £ . ry purpose ot examining its dexterous misnomers in support of a shocking system , I have not been very successful in detecting that worst kind of verbal deceptions which consist in specious misnomers . J . GI . LCHRIST .
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aadJowiy in . hea * t ^ l " 'who-came riot be miyiUteredtuivtb but tu >; pifltlte « t « t *" aud v * iw > * brjjexample , precept $ ffl& ? pfa ± \ hibitiw ^ i , discoutHenhanced aili&tag * * iti $ . disciples ev ^ ery thing that looked like f an affectation of pre-eminence « md superiority ,-rr * I say , " to eiteryimon that is amotos : < vnna . not to think of iiimfielf
more highly than he ought to think -f and , reckoning himself together with the rest , be declares , " are everyone members one of another . " - Nevertheless * from a period very shortly subsequent to that in vwhich Paul wrote , down to the presenty there has been an order of men in the Church claiming
distinctive titles , exclusive privileges and dictatorial powers . It would " i > e both tedious and invidious ta enter At any length upon a detail of ike mt 9 » . chiefs anxl corruptions which-hav ^ disturbed and defaced the pure mstitutH&hs of the gospel , and in whreh < m £ T * & € this description have been the principal
agents : they are sufficiently known to all who have the slightest acquaintance with history , civil or ecclesiastical Neither do I intend any thing personal * my business is only with the nature of the powers they exercise , and vfrbfkrh is known at once by an inspecti&tfr ^ f their respective constitutions . By these , under the collective , but m&w
applied title of the Church * th £ y - are authorised to decree rites and cetemonies ; to determine controversies 1 of faith and cases of con science ' , lo be stewards of the mysteries of G 6 r # * - 'to have the custody of the keys of five - kingdom of heaven , that is to sa ^ the power of admission or exclusion ; " to retain and remit sins ; to inflict and
remove censures ; to pronoance and revoke sentence of excommunication ; to give validity to ordinances ; anu \ as it appears in practice , an"d as itfe * have repeatedly experienced- too ^ as members of courts of judicature ^^ and - decicie upon the orthodoxy or hetero ^ doxy of the opinions , not onlf ^ ftheir
. own . party , but of others who belong not to their communion , nor i * ec < tefnize their authority . These are * indeed high prerogative ^ and the ques ^ fo ^ i instantly presents itself- —* from ^ hende are they derived ? •'¦¦ - Now ,- Al ^ rhobgh many wi |? be disposed to cfe'hy ftftftf ,
most ot uie ordinary pfiwefe-wira which the imtnedtitte &wcce ^ ors Ji e > f Jcrus v ^ ere invested , and which W <» re necessary in the infancy of theX 3 hiifbh , have any specific ajrpHtrability , or those
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Chri $ ti # i& Equality . ; A Discourse ^ ZS ? c ( Concluded from p . 209 . ) B ^ U T * the most formidable obstacle * ' ¦ to gospel-equality , and the widest aberration from the principles Laid down iay , the Apostle in our text , remainsyet &o be noticed , " I say , " says he , ^ through the grace given unto mfi / J . —in virttju ; of the commission L have reciiv ^ d to preach the ' unsearchable i ^ c h ^ s of hicn who was " meek
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/21/
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