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ill which an accuser may entangle soy one " who has fixed political principleSo It may mean an entire approbation of'the King ' s ministers for the time being ; it does generally mean a devoted attachment to the
constitution ita church and state ; it ought to raean an accordance with the British frame of government in King * "Lords and Commons . In" the first sense , everj Whig is now disloyal ; m the second sense , every Protestant Dissenter is disloyal % but in the third
sense , we know not an Unitarian , New or OldP who is not loyal in head and heart . Surely the Old Unitarian would not wish to bring back the reign of terror , the worst feature of revolutionary times , when any
difference of opinion from the majority , with regard to a political character or a measure of foreign policy , shall suffice to justify one Englishman in branding another with the foul name of traitor !
We have now disposed of the Old Unitarian ' s charges ; and may sum tip our review of them , by saying , that the first is retracted ; that the second is no more applicable to the New Unitarians than to all other
imperfect Christians , not excepting the Old Unitarian himself ; that the third , the most serious of the whole , is virtually , but ought to be expressly ; abandoned ; that the fourth is mere matter of opinion , in which the Old Unitarian would probably stand in a minoritjj , even amongst those willing to bear the same denomination with
himself ; and that the fifth , like the third , is a mere ebullition of anger , and until it be proved , ( which we know it never will , ) must be accounted one of those unlawful weapons which even good men sometimes throw at those whom they allow themselves to consider as opponents *
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taneously and generously paid * There is a fund of good feeling ii * the com * munity , drawn out by particular occurrences , which ought to shame the
pleaders for the natural apd total depravity of man . That event amongst others shewed that the irreligious , as welt" as the devout , were ready to do honour to the good and to sympathize with the distressed * In th-e sentiments
of many publications , designed-1 o-express the public grief , and render itsubservient to moral purposes , we unfeignedly coincide- Whatever their imperfections , the language of honest sorrow and pure benevolence * Is sacred from the shafts of criticism .
But they have no claim to such forbearance who abused that mournful occasion by incoleaVmi * slavish , sycophantic and unnational principles ,, This sermon in particular ought not to pass into oblivion unnoticed or uncensured . It has glaring sins both of omission and of commission Like
the whole tribe of courtly - mourners * Dr * C « forgets that the lamented Princess had a Mother , to whom her heroic filial attachment , under no ordinary trials , was one of the brightest features of her character . On all
topics of panegyric , save this , our preacher is voluble enough '; but dumb as the grave on that virtue- —* so universally estimable and iirritable * of which , when future generations are taught goodness by historic examples * she will be selected as an illustrious
instance . And for her desolate Mother * has humanity no sympathy , religion no consolation ? Banished from our shores , is she also to be cast out from our hearts , our memories and our prayers ? On all else is poured the
full tide of condolence , and this Royal Mourner is left alone , the only tinsolaced wretch in the universe . Bereavement always gives a claim to kindness * , To the beggar ' s widow we talk of Christian hope : and we bestow a word of condolence even on the
faithful dog that whines upon his master ' s grave . From what honourable motive ^ , by what religious principle * is one exeepfced from the universal sympathy * hy whom it was most needed , and to whom it would have been most
soothing ? The omission is unfeeling to the li ving , and insulting to the dead Could that generous spirit revisit tlm
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MevietVo—fflr * Obllyer ^ s Sermon out the death of the Princess * $ t
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AitTo IL- —Joy turned into Mourning . A Sermon occasioned by the death of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta ,, fy c * By W , Bo
Collyer , X > . D . F . A . So &c . 8 vo * ppo 37 o Black and Co . 1817 . f I iHE universal regret evinced by . JL . our country men on the loss of our beloved Princess * was alike , honourable to her and to themselves . It was si tribute nobly merited j spon *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/61/
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