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    Infidels * smd , nearly cflU ^ Attprn <* y W ^ Solicitpr-tG ^ n ^ rals .: * iga > n $ t them arp the most eminent > frienxlp of liberty ; , and the best advocates of , Revealed Religion , ia number small , but great in

    weight , Milton , Locke , Hoadly , Sykes , Lardner , Lowth , Pitt ( the elder ) ,, Fox , Saville , Campbell , Priestley , and Watson . These names may not justify an opinion , but they should surely shield its professors from reproach . R . B .

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    inay be called , $ isqien ? #$ ) # - riwzniQl qcfewce , q ? which the truths ^ e to be , fought put by induction , , an 4 not by « my thing l # : e ftffithe&is z . for . the method pf synthesis §^ ts qut trpm some fixed pi ^ mc ^ e from , wbic ? U it descends to p ^ cticiil ^ r conqlusiQus ^ nd application ^ . Now what is called

    a principle is top often like a > mawim * " Nothing , ^ ' says J > r . Paley , * , isi ; sp soon made as a . ma ^ xim ; and it appears from the exaniple of Aristotle , that authority and convenience , education ,

    prejudice and general practice , have no small share in the making of them ; and that the laws of custom are v ^ ry apt to be mistaken for the order of nature . " [ Mor . and Polit . Philos . I * 18 , 8 vo . edition , 1791 . ]

    Much use , indeed , may be made of the synthetic mpde of argument by dexterous partisans , who , having language and imagery at command , may draw many followers to their standard , and kindle in th $ m every mode and degree of excitement , from temperate and laudable ardour to the wildest

    fanaticism , and frpm the pardonable infirmity pf talking or writing unadvisedly to the contrivance and perpetration , of the most atrocious crimes ; but the lessons of practical wisdom and the efforts of enlightened patriotism must , unless I am greatly mistaken , originate in a very different

    source . The two propositions which form the basis of Mr . jBeisham ' s Three SermqrhSy and which , he has illustrated , and , so f $ r as relates to the first , has , I think , proved with peculiar skill and success , are , that the Christian

    religion deserves and needs the countenance and patronage of the civil pqwer — but that it distinctly and utterly disclaims the aid and support of , civil pains and pqyialties * To my

    apprehension ( which may be a very erroneous p , ne ) , tliese two , propositions are ,, /? W ^ A Jacie , in a certain degree * opposed to e ^ ch other : . inasmuch as t ) xe patronage of tW civil power must be considered as not less requisite in

    preventing pr removing obstructions to $ hs g $ np ^ al diffusion of jreligious H ^ pwledge £ * nd Christian , principles , thab in pbaitive ^ ssfet ^ pce afforded by ^ owments for public pr privatein ^ truption . 1 , ao not s ^ e how t ; his contradic tio n <^^ n be reconciled . k j [ f it be fitting that J ^ y civil advantages , and , pncpurage-

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    On the ^ ig hixtf&e ^ &Wki * l J * / KbeMeners . 2 &

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    On the Right of the Magistrate to punish Unbelievers . Letter II . Chichester , Sir , May 10 , 1820 . 1 HAVE just had the long-wishedfor gratification , of perusing Mv-Belsham ' s Three Sermons on the p l ^ a and the protect of Christianity pn the

    subject of the interference of the civjl power in the concerns of religion . i | f these able discourses have not produced full conviction in iny rnind , ; I am nzi ^ ch inore disposed to iinpute the failure to myself than to the distinguished author , and I am fully sensible , that any man who differs from him on topics of this nature , has great

    reason to distrust his own judgment . What I have to propose , therefore , in opposition to him , on the topics touched on in tjiis paper , I wi ^ h to state with the utmost diffidence . Indeed , the conclusions \ yhich I am

    compelled to adopt arq so , much ] the reverse of everything t ^ atjmy e arlier associations and inquiries suggested , that jl shall feel payself , mudh obliged to ai ^ y gentleman of clearer vle \ vs an 4 spuAd ^ r understanding than myself ,. who may think it worth vyhile % o convince me pf my mistakes .

    I would set , . QUt wiljh . remarking , that the present is a subject of gre ^ t difficulty , and that t ^ ie ( iiflpi ^ lty is liable to be increased by treating Jt \ a a manner too general and , abstracted . Ethics , except so f ^ r as they are ta , ug ^ ut in the revealed word of God , and > especiall y political ethics , so far as , they

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/35/