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    this subject . Is not every administration composed of individuals , how * ever exalted f and will it be contended that a Christian statesman , though subject , as an individual , to the laws of his Divine Master , is under no obligation to observe them in his public

    capacity ? Or , in other words , that his Christian morality must not appear where its beneficial influence would be most extensively felt , but must then give place to the uncertain rules and vacillating principles of political expediency ? Or if no individual statesman is invested with this

    dispensing privilege , is it reserved for associations of Christian statesmen to act , in their collective capacity , on principles different from those which ought to regulate their conduct as individuals ? Can it be maintained ,

    that a senate , a cabinet council , a diet or a congress , may violate every principle of our holy religion , at the command of political expediency , and set at defiance those laws , which every individual of these august assemblies is bound to observe in the conduct of

    private Kfe ? It is hoped , nay it is believed , tfoat no body of men , however exalted , will , in the present enlightened age , undertake the formal defence of a principle so pernicious in its tendency ; a principle which , in all ao-es . has been the fertile source of ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ i ¦ b ~^—

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    I will not trespass on the patience of your readers by lengthened apologies for the prolixity of these remarks * or by an unnecessary appeal to their candour , for the liberal

    conatrucfckm of a d < e « ig « which requires no apology whatever . Many of them will tfnite with me in a fervent prayer fbr the speedy arrival of that period , When the knowledge of the Lord shall 45 over the earth , as the waters the

    < # * ani * elfi of the deep ; when the kingdoms of this world cthall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of hfe * Chrtet ; when * he habitations of cruelty shatf be converted into the abodes of rig ^ 'freousnesB and peace * F * fr . 14 , rsm . E ,

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    510 On the Inquiry concerning Mr . Cappe ' s Opinions .

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    Sir , July 16 , ISIS . HAVE observed with pleasure I the inquiry of a Correspondent * in your interesting Miscellany , [ p . 326 , ]} on the subject of the opinions which

    were adopted , after long and laborious research , by the late amiable Mr . Cappe , of York , which are implied in the notes to the " Life of Christ y r but defended , at length , in two posthumous volumes of " Critical

    Remarks . " It is with pleasure I have observed this , because it is a further evidence of the justness of the character for inquiry , which has been long claimed by Unitaiians , and which is scarcely denied them by their opponents . We cannot too much admire

    that spirit of unfeigned love for religious truth , which prompts private individuals , whether in or out of the Establishment , to observe for themselves the apostolic maxim , " Try all things , hold fast that which is good . " And let the theological student , while

    he is earnestly solicitous that his inquiries proceed from Christian dispositions , and are fitted to promote holiness in heart and life , remember , that some opinions have , upon a superficial acquaintance , been even denounced as immoral , which a closer

    inspection has shewn to be correct , and consequently beneficial . I venture not to predict the certain issue of an amicable discussion concerning the sentiments above-men * tioned . Some may , perhaps , appear to all your readers as having their

    foundation in correct criticism ; while others may be considered as fanciful and untenable . Let your readers , however , carefully distinguish the question of their truth or falsehood , from the reputation of an institution wherepeculiar opportunities naturally

    occur for obtaining a satisfactory acquaintance with them . I gladly bear my humble testimony to the exemplary fairness with which theological studies are there pursued , where " the Bible , and the Bible only / ' is assumed as the text-book : and students are

    directed to employ the means which judicious criticism offers , for an elucidation of its contents . If scriptural interpretations axe sometiuoes suggested by the theological tutor , ( different from thowe wtfridh , wi * prevalent among us ; their immediate and natural

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/38/