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    | lii « consolation is ever ht hand , that the good in Iranian natttre , is mrghtrer than ttoe evil ; that timB is in aHiaace \ tith truth , and that trttth is in alliance with God . * There is , ' sayS Mr . Wordsworth , irt the tfpirf t of that prorWrrd attd beautiful philosophy which is spread over all hi $ prices , there is a spiritual community , binding *

    together the Tiring and the dead , the gfood , the brave , and the wise of all ag-es . We would not be rejected frofti this community , and therefore do we hope . ' ' It is no greater fault , ' says Sir Philip Sidney , 4 to Itave confidence in luan ' s power , than it is too hastily to despair of God ' s work . " X .

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    Art , 1 v . — A Charge delivered at tlte Primary Visitation of Herbert * Lord Bishop of Landaff , in August 18 L 7 . 8 vo . pp . 38 . Kivingtons . WH AT first occurs to be remarked , in the perusal of this charge , is the writer ' s profound silence

    concerning hiu predecessor . It is difficult to conceive that the present Bishop of JLsuadafF was not personally acquainted with Dr . Watson . » To the high reputation of that prelate in the University , in the world , and , we tfiijikj we may add , in the church , he

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    could not , surety , be insensible . Yet he abstains frotn nil reference to hj » character and labours . The omisatott fa extraordinary : what can be the motive of it , our readers witt Consid er * Far the larger part of the pamphlet 4 €

    is employed in an analysis of the Clergy Bill ' This Dr . M . pronounces to be " a law for the government of the church , which is of greater coti * sequence than any ecclesiastical law , which has been made since the time of the Reformation . " Its enactments

    are judiciously and usefully explained . In the remainder of his Charge , the Bishop of Landaff strongly recom * mends to the attention of hrs cterg-y the National Society and the Society

    for promoting HeligimiS Knowledge * Of the latter fie says ( 54 ) , € x It is the most ancient Bible society in this kingdom . " And among the reasons for its being patronized by Churchman , to the exclusion of * ' the British and

    Foreign Bible Society , " he gives tile following ( 36 ) : " The Bibte Society , tvhtch is dfetfngnisbed by the name of the < British and ? Foreign * comprises the great body < d Dissenters in this kingdom , while the othe * Bible Society consists entirely of Chmrek * men * Now a pttitaeiship of churchmen and Dissenters in a Bible Society- whrcl

    distributes the Bible alone , is a partnership , founded on very unequal forms . It i » / bonded on a levelling * principle , of which the unavoidable consequepce is , Aat one party must lose what the other gains . This the Dissenters know , if Chxitehmeit do not . They kndtr that a tfni ^ n of Clrtticll - nven and Dissenters ia suck a society caanot fail to augment the power of the tatter aft the expense of thfe former . "

    But we mu * t be permitted fc ^ dew y tbe fact , and tooppn ^ rt the rejwsofyi n ^ . Dissenters gain nothing , a # IPis&enter , by their support of th « Bi&fe Society . In eoftomort tvith those of their cWt ~ formist neighbours ^ n > h&m they join in

    the undertaking they acquire a power of being useful to mankind . . Were the argument of the above paragraph good for any throg > it wonkl pfove that Churchmen ought not to imfee with Dissenters in charitable

    associations in gcneraf . In a note , at the coircki ^ fow , tlic Bishop requests the clergy of hitt diocese to distinguish between ' * justification , that isr admission to Hie Christian covenant , and salvation * which is the completion of iU This ,

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    Revieii \~~ + Bishop ofLand # ff * $ Primary visitatiwi Sermon . f $ 5

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    Art . III . — A Sermon on Spring . Delivered at the tJnitarian Chapel , South Street , Gosport : General Baptist Chapel , Thomas Street , Portsmouth . and Unitarian Ch&pel , Fareham . By a Unitarian -Lay Preacher . lSmo . pp . 18 . Hollingsworth and Price , Portsmouth . 1817 .

    fTHHE Lay Preacher ' s discourse JL wofrtd not disgrace tnafiy who have been regularly educated and ordained * Of the three chapels at which it Was pfeached , two belong to poor congregations , unable to support niifiisfers y and if they have amongst thetu , or are frequently visited by , such lay preachers ass the author of tkis sermon , are wot very much in need of them . While so many small societies are in a sraiitetr situation , and

    o&t academical instittitiotis are insufficient even for the supply of old and established congregations , it is highly desirable that men of sense and piety should exercise their right of

    prophe-** y iag , a ° d prevent the total disuse of public worship and exhortation . Our regular ministers are , we hsope * too liberal and right-minded not to encourage such useful substitutes and assistants . X .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 735, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/39/