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where the Christian religion is predominant , those who profess another faith are hated , despised , persecuted and cruelly driven out . Even the Christian priests do not forcibly resist this evil , but , idle spectators , they permit it to grow up every where . " Turn your eyes with impartiality to the history of ancient or modern Christians , and your benevolence will ask no farther p roofs that what I urge is nothing- but the strictest truth . Under such
circumstances , can the Christian religion be spread by conviction ? Can those who misunderstand its mightiest principles hope for many proselytes ? The unenlightened non Christian cannot he persuaded of the beneficence of a doctrine
that makes him undergo so many persecutions . He whose mind is enlarged by knowledge feels , it is true , a great veneration for the pure and exalted principles of Christ , but he can nave no confidence in His followers . u A man , Sir , so noble , so true-spirited as you , with such firmness of will ,
such force of mind , will surely exert all the mighty powers his excellence must give him over his brethren in tlie faith , to make them rightly understand the divine tvords of love pronounced by his great Master , that for the future their holy effects may grow visible in their life 5 and then the Christian religion will
extend its branches without any farther efforts . In other terms , endeavour to make your holy law work more intensively , and its extensile effects sliall follow by themselves . I am firmly persuaded that the greatest part of the Jews
would long ago have embraced the Christian faith , if they had found a true Christian and brotherly love in the Christians 5 for the spark of the divine flame that lies slumbering in the human breast can only be awakened by love .
" With security and confidence I lay down these my open sentiments in your loyal and benevolent mind . I am sure that you will take them to heart . The All-bountiful , the All-gracious will give his benediction to your steps , and the time will soon come when we sliall be all
sheep of one and the same flock ! Amen . " [ We may add that Mr , Way presented a memorial on behalf of the Jews to the late CongresR at Aix-la-Chapelle , " relative to the amelioration of their moral and political
condition under the several governments of Europe /* " This proposition , * he says , in a letter recently published in a Brussels paper , " has be < en recognized by the highest authorities , aa a fiueetioa worthy of the consideration
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and of the encouragement of every friend of humanity .. * Ed . ]
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Art . HI .- < -T % e Present State of Reli * gious Parties in England represented and improved * in a Discourse deli * vercd in Essex-Street Chapel * May 17 , and repeated October l # , 18 IS 5 also , in Remhaw-Street Chapel ^ Liverpool * September 20 . By Thomas Belsham . 8 vo . Pp . 42 . Hunter . MR . BELSHAM here presents us with a brief sketch of the
principal religious denominations in England , and with some reflections upon the present state of religion amongst us . The outline of the sects is clear and distinct , and the reflections are worthy of an enlightened Christian minister .
The members of the Established Church are divided into political and religious churchmen : the latter , vvho assume the title of evangelical ^ are preferred by the preacher on the ground
of their liberality . Our experience would cause us to hesitate in assigning them this Christian precedence . Mr . Belsham describes with great tenderness a third party in the Church , th&t is , Unitarians * ' who conform
outwardly to its worshi p *"* Such persons , he says , he dares not condemn , having before him the example of Mr . Lindsey , who " was himself a decided Unitarian ten years before
he saw it to be his duty to quit the church * " This charity is certainly in the spirit of the New Testament ; yet it should not be forgotten in what manner the late venerable confessor
of Essex Street speaks in his Apology of what he is so ingenuous as to call his " blameable duplicity , and providential awakenings . " " It is related ( he says , pp . 218 , 219 ) in the Life of Archbishop Tillotson , that his friend Mr . Nelson having consulted him by letter from the Hague , in the year
1691 , with regard to the practice of those nonjurors , who frequented the churches , and yet professed that they did not join in the prayers for their majesties ;* * As to the case you put / replied his Grace , ' I wonder Hjen should be divided in opinion about it . I think it is plain , that no man can join in prayers in which there is any . 1 "" * "X ¦•« " ¦¦«<• mmmmmtm ^ t * I 1 •¦ 11 """ I" ! MNtolM I I 'I 1 II ¦ . I * " Birch ' s Ljfe of Archbishop TillotsoM * 9 , 869 . "
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" <* ¦ ' Review . —Behhani s Sermon 0 % Religious Parties . 7 j $$ t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/35/
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