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elected Calvin&t to contribute taW&rds the diffusion of Socinian infideGty ? Is the reprobate Unitarian to bfe t&sted for the support of principles at which he shudders > < Does not history teach us to fear that the jealousy and bickerings engendered by this system of extortion and favouritism , however
disguised or palliated , will produce more evil than can be balanced by any probable good result ? With respect to the charge of obsequiousness and truckling in our Difcseming Ministers , ( p . 12 , ) I feel with your Norwkfa
Correspondent . Surely the accusation is unsubstantiated by facts and founded on false theory . Is it not reasonable to expect that the man whose labours are remunerated by small contributions from rnany , will fre more independent
of each and all . than he who is aft-) ointed and p&id fty one or a few , mil > e from the controul of the one or the feW I ? beg pardon fot the etxpte&sitiih , but
is it not preposterous to e £ J > ecit ( p . 15 ) that the ciifrl power will ever be vested in the hands of beings so Superior to
the present race of man , as to afford a reasonable hope of theit exercising a discretion so sdiind and liberal , in providing for tW spiritual Wants x > f ettery individual , that We Should be benefited
by the surrender df our deafest liberties , Hhd by trusting implicitly to Teceivfe a sharfc of patronised Chlfetianity , eafch according tt > the measure of his deserts 6 r necessities ? When our governors are bfectfme so < etfM *
iiisitely perfect , may we not faiirlye ^ pect that the Whole worid Will hatre graved at that blessed state in which Govern ment tnay be dispensed with , as tto longer constituting a necessary evil * No Christian cottld eter object to
see Christianity familiar in otlr COiirtB and parliaments , ( p . 17 , ) reigtitogf in the hearts and ^ ov ^ tiring the t £ ti 6 n ^ of att in authority , jftit a ' " * Iriitited front "! 1 ^ Royalty inBttlt ^ d by the approach of a tftratian tttfhfcrter , litiless tricked out in laWu and coWnets ? Is Epifecbbttl pomp n ^ e ^ saTy When um aDuants me
Msocomg xn ^ w pttuicc to take ho thought foi- r ^ inieift , biit consider the U ^ hO \ rtii ^^ W : to congee ^ j ? P 5 ^ M ^ # LS thS tiofto l 4 ^ P ^ tt iife * HiMEi % rlSt r 'W thSS tttT KM
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of the disciple of tile lowly Jesus y or is th £ disciple become greater thah Ms Master ? " ' : ' ' # ' i <; i / Mr . B ., a Dissenter , thie declared and formidable enemy of creeds , the
boldest of innovators , advocaring < $ . 18 ) public taxation for the cedstimctiSri of places of worship , in which a National Liturgy is to be established "hi order to protect the decorum of public worship from rash and fanatical imiovatofs" ! Alas ! iare not wen the
wisest of us liable to be betrayed Sato inconsistencies ? Is it not probable that by the time theological feeling M $ Subsided to the state in which this Idttttgy could be ^ gifeed upon , and the doctrinal test , to . 15 , ) that Jestw Christ is a teacher sent from God
should be deemed a sufficient point Of union , Christians will ha ^ become so enlightened , so truly Christi ^ i , that Mir . B . himself would gladly abandon his own plan of patronage and fevouritism , as not only unnecessary biit impossible ? Is it not probable that
the lMSD . ettlitudci - a w ] Il- kMre- aarxived "befbi ^ this imp&fect scheme dan be realised ? Should We not b ^ Peeking Utopia kiid aeglectirig El ^ ittm ? i [ r > Wt . B , ha ^ ig in Ms fii ^ t S ^ rinbii sketched out his plan of £ & 1 ± 6 tiaM
proceeds in the second to establish itB proptiet ^ hi aii $ Wer to all obj ictbiisj . And here lie has full need of all his own acnteness and strength agtdnst his €€ specious" opponents , and it fe pretty
evident that , Iik 6 other combatants , hk is not so strong in a bad as in a godd cause . : ' It cannot indeed be denied to Mr . B . ; that tbe atafeeptaiice of tix 6 T ' arfii ^ tnentary grant ( p : 29 ) is a sacrifice of
itoe stalky principle of Dissent , and tht > se who approve of it cannot with consistency object to magisterial ihterference absolutely , but solehr tb the amotmt . It is , indeed , sometimes said that © issentens an fairly entitled to ft hv wav « f ^ refnmnetattion for what is HBV r M > M rippv VVHViBV VFHV w' ¦ m ^^^ - * w- ^ - ^ ^ r mmw
^^^ H ^^^ ^ ^^ | ^^^^ ^^ y ^ p ^ pp ^^^^ pv ^^*^^^^^ v ^ r ^ v ^^ p ^^ P ^^ ^^*^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ taken frdm them in tithes and ctailtebfritfes , Imt surely such refinement arid tfpectel pieaaing should nev ^ r be fc ^ ttrtf omofW ^ A ^ tet Hall . AVitfa ^ . 6 p ^ t to 1 ; he tomunities ern ^^ by ifesenting IWinifiters , ( p . WljWB . ai 4 nbt # V ^ nature to cb ^ kBim ^ t ^ dictate of reason , every rule ^ gw ^
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Remark * on Mr . Belttham * * Three Sermons , 4 BJ
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1820, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2491/page/13/
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