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almost unknown in England ; and into this party all the indifferentists from other sects , who do not choose , for political motives , to join the establishment , naturally fall . The establishment itself furnishes a supply by the falling off of those of its members , who , in the progress of inquiry , discover
that the church of England is neither one thing nor the other ; that in matters of religion all must rest upon faith , or upon reason ; and have unhappily preferred the sandy foundation of human wit , drede ut intelligas , noli intelligere nt credas , is the -wise precept of St . Augustine ; but these heretics have discarded the fathers as
well as the saints 1 These become Socinians ; and though many of them do not stop here in the career of unbelief , they still frequent the meetinghouses , and are numbered among the sect . With these all the hydra brood of Arianism and Pelagianism , and all the anti-calvinist Dissenters have
united ; each preserving its own peculiar tenets , but all agreeing in their abhorrence of Calvinism , their love of unbounded freedom of opinion , and in consequence their hostility to any church establishment . All , however , by this union , and still more by the
medley ofdoctrines which are preached as the pulpit happens to be filled by a minister of one persuasion or the other , are insensibly modified and assimilated to each other ; and this assimilation will probably become complete , as the older members , who were more rigidly
trained in theorthodoxy of heterodoxy , drop off . A body will remain respectable for riches , numbers , erudition and talents , but without zeal and without generosity ; and they will fall asunder at no very remote period , because they do not afford their ministers stipends sufficient for the decencies of life . The
church must be kept together by a golden chain ; and this , which is typically true of the true church , is literally applicable to every false one . These . sectarians call themselves the enlightened part of the Dissenters ; but the children of Mammon are wiser in their
generation than such children of light . From this party , therefore , the church of England has nothing to fear , though of late years its hostility has been crringly directed against them . They are rather its allies than its enejaiies , an advanced guard who have
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pitched their camp upon the very frontiers of infidelity , and exert themselves in combating the unbelievers on one hand , and the Calvinists on the other . They have the fate of Servetus for their warning , which the followers of Calvin justify , and are ready to make their precedent . Should these sworn foes to the establishment succeed in overthrowing it , a burnt-offering of anti-trinitarians would be the first illumination for the victory .
12 . Little left of Magna Charta * The grave of king John is here * [ Worcester ] a monarch remarkable in English history for having signed the
Great Charter , resigned his crown to the pope ' s legate , and offered to turn Mohammedan if the Miramolin would assist him against his subjects . As there were some doubts whether the grave which was commonly supposed to be his was really so , it was opened
two or three years ago , and the tradition verified . It appeared that it had been opened before for other motives ; for some of the bones were displaced , and the more valuable parts of his dress missing . As this was at the time when the revolutionary disposition of
the people had occasioned some acts of unusual rigour on the part of government , it was remarked in one of the newspapers , that if king John had taken the opportunity to walk abroad and observe how things were going on , it must have given him great satisfaction to see how little was left of that Magna Charta , which he had signed so sorely against his will . [ To be continued ., ]
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354 State of Religion , in France .
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[ Extract fi 6 in a Private Letter , dated Farts , May 12 , 1817 . ] . lor YOU seem to wish for some general * account of the theology of France . " Except some devotional books for the routine of the liturgical worship of the country , I know scarcely of any new theological publication whatever . The Catholics
always refer you to the well-known and certainly elaborate work of Bossuet on the Variations , as also to a treatise very logically drawn up on the Perpetuity de la Foi : but at this period I know of no very eminent
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/34/
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