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former sense , it might be used for some purpose of criticism on the subject alluded to 5 if in the latter , it must be left for the use of St . Cyprian and his little garden .
A little garden little Pro we tt made ; And fencM it with a little palisade 5 And would you know the taste of little Prowett , This little garden will a little shew it D . -
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by further inquiry ? While others , therefore , as conscientiously as myself , are anxious to make their plebeian pupils and proteges " Presbyterian Unitarians , " or Episcopalian Athanasians , or any other arians or asianSy I confess and profess myself content
to refer mine altogether to the Logo g and his contemporary missionaries , " without note or comment , " solely as they are under my exclusive superintendence : and when that ceases , as 1 consider it to do , on every Saturday evening , their parents are at liberty
to dispose of them as they please ; when , in the school particularly alluded to , the little catechumens are free to learn a more popular theology at the present day , from an excellent Calvinistic minister of our biform sect established by law , or some most praise-worthy young women in the
village , of perhaps the same denomination , to whose kind assiduity during ' the week they are indebted , infinitely more than to my mere patronage , for what little advantage they may derive from education on this side the grave , or the inestimable benefit they may anticipate from it , on the other .
N . B . The scriptural inscription alluded to , is quoted alike by Christians of all denominations , and can , therefore , scarcely be assumed as a presumption of its having originated
with any particular one . Well for " the Church , " were it once again as invariably adhered to by it , in its creeds and forms of worship ! J . T . CJLARKE .
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Sir , Swakeleys 9 Nov . 5 , 1818 . YOUR Correspondent from Chichester , [ p . 6 l 9 >] indirectly asks me a question , which 1 feel very ready to answer . A Scriptural School then , is , according to my notions , a school in which the Bible is the only
religious book : in other words , an honestly and strictly Protestant school . What the creed of any founder of one may be , is , to my mind , a matter ineffably unimportant to every human being but himself . In those with which I have to do , the scholar is
directed to the purest sources of belief , the teaching totidem verbzs of the Lord Jesus Christ and his apostles : and not to the purest only , but , as far as my experience goes , the plainest also . Let his capacity be what it
may , a disciple at their feet alone will probably find difficulties in their discourses and narrative : on some points he may doubt , on many he will -possibly err , and at one time or another differ from himself on all : but " to
whom can he go * better than to them , to them alone ? Let him resign his individual judgment , and travel with the host of commentators , over or out of the record , how will the matter be altered , even in this point of view in
his favour ? As his lot happens to fall , he may be sophisticated into a belief in Transubstantiation , in the Trinity , or in any other orthodox ov heterodox dogma : but what has he gained ^ in point of authority , or mental assurance ? fie has left tho-crhurcJi
of Christ to become a member of that of Rome , of Constantinople , of Enland , of Scotland , of Otabeite . Are his embarrassments now all dissipated , have his doubts vanished , aud
infallibility or never-out-ism , become bis happier portion ? Or if Ahey have , what ishe the better for the exchange , but ia the substitution of a wrongheadedness only made irreclaimable VOL , * XIII . 4 V
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On Schools for Scriptural Chilians . *—Manchester Presbyterians . 697
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Sir , Nov . 9 * 1818 . rjpif-IOUGH your Correspondent F . JL [ p- 619 ] does not wish " to embroil hinjself" with the discussion
respecting " The Manchester Presbyterians , " he seems to have gone a little out of the wayf on Iris visit to Tlie School for Scriptural Christians , " in his remarks on the subject .
In that school he might have learnt the maxim , " Judge not that ye be not judged" before he so readily adopted the charge of " duplicity , " against those Manchester Presbyterians . Were
Jtie actually presiding in the court of equity , to which he alludes , he prabably would hear of , what Blackstone terms , " the right of taking by representation" And though little
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 697, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/33/
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