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tfce ef ^ h ty- secofml sa ^ s , 4 Xtis prombu that the present forms of church-gwe re * mtnt will be dissolved / Both these p * 0 | to r sitioos are groundedon the interpretation of certain prophecies ; but these prophecies
ar < e- neither so distinctly set forth , nor so indubitably explained by Dr . Hartley , as to indace a c ^ ool-neaded man implicitly to adopt them y though the fall of the French monarchy and church drew some men ' s attention toward them about that time . I ¦
have at * aoee&ote concerning * these two propositions worth mentioning , it was toW m 0 by Lady Charlotte Wenttvarth . She happened to be attending her father at Bath , when this book was first published , and being much alarmed at what she batf read in it , relative to the fall of g-oveintnents arid of churches , she asked
Dr . Hartley , on his next visit to her rather , whom he attended as his physician , when these terrible thing's would happen . He answered , < I am an old man , and shall not live to see them ; but you are a young * woman , and probably will see them : ' and more persons than her ladyship thought that the French Revolution was the
beg-inning- of the completion of Dr . Hartley ' s prediction . ^ Pp . 16 % 164 . The bishop made a celebrated spqech in the House of Lords , in 17 & 7 , against Mr . Pitt ' s Commercial Treaty with France , in which he proved himself a good Englishman , as far as that
denomination implies a hater of Frenchmen Another fit pf illness this year induced the bishop to resolve never more to preside in the Divinity schools : he obtained a grace to appoint Dr . Kipling his deputy , to whom he gave a yearly stipend first of £ 300 * then of £ 25 O , and latterly of more * And at
the following Commencement he concluded his , speech with v- farewell address to the University , which abounds in liberal sentiments - If the auditors had known all that we ha-ve just read , they might Ijave been pardoned for indulging a smile , while the bishop wa $ solfynnly asserting , Mattem provide vesfram
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AitT . HI .-r ** THieSpre 4 fdoj Umtaricmism . a Blessing to Society : a Sermon preached at the Unitarian Ckqpel in . Artillery Lane , London * on . Wednesday , % 8 th of May , 18 \ 7 , &efare the Friends and Stiupporte ^ softke Unitarian Fund . By W . J « - > Fox ; 12 mo . pp . 44 . Hunter and Eaton *
1817 . V iHIS sermon is remarkably adapted JL to its object . The tone , the nian > ner , the argument , are all in unison with the design of the Unitariaa Fiindi , which is to promote a reformation in the doctrines of the actually existing Christian church . The occasion called
for and justifies the decision of opinion * earnestness of feeling and directness of language , which are the prominent characters of tfee discourse . The preacher ^ text is -Aefs .-xvi .-ft which relates the vision of the " Mail
of Macedonia" to Paul , that led to the introduction of Christianity ioto Eu ^* rope ; and he adduces the conduct of Paul on this occasion toe excite zeal , direct exertion and strengthen hope . The members of the Unitarian Fund Society unite ,, he says , "in holy eiiiu ^
lation of apostolic example , to help those whose best interests" they think they are ** able to promote . ' Their proceedings are oJb ^ ected to , but lie replies that Use same objections might have beea urged against Pa ? iFs mis * si&aary visit to Europe , and his vindication is in substance theirs .
Trinitarianism is the established religion : Paganism was established at Athens and Ephesus . Trinitarianisin is popular : Polytheism was the idol of tiie people of Greece . Unitarian proseiytists are accused of
intemperance of language y v ^ w plainly and broadly stated * aWforcibly advocated a religion in many things opposed to- the faith and worship of his hearers . Unitarianism u said by some Unitarians to be not suited to
the vulgar ; if this were true , ; the preacher argues , it would not be the gospel $ but the conduct o # Paul proves ^ to Unitaiians sit least , that it is not true . Tfee difTerencefi between Unitarimifl and others are by some
pronounced uniwipovtant ; but in Mr . FoxV view th ^ y kv * fondamentrf . Exertions ibr the spread of truth may reqnire sacrifices or excite bad paaaiions j . but Uiese eon * eqi ! ienceft did not deter the ibtonderi of our feith from
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Review . ' —Foxs Sermon before tk ^ Unitarian Fund . 137
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/57/
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