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of their value , and a disposition wisel ] to improve them , secure to us and to our descendants their continuance . "— -III . 211 —214 , The Sermons do not abound in rhetorical figures , but they contain a few passages which prove that the preacher was fully able to reach a more elevated style than that which he has thought proper to assume . We may quote by
way of example the following apostrophe to religion , the conclusion of a passage asserting the inadequacy of youth and beauty , genius and learning , wealth and prosperity , power and popular favour , honour and friendship , to procure perfect happiness :
" It is thine , Religion ! thou power celestial and minister of God for good to mankind , to conduct thy votaries , and at the same time to succour and shield them in their journey through life , nor wilt thou desert them in the hour of their last
distress ! It is thy prerogative alone to accompany them to an unknown world , and to bring them , with modest confidence , to the tribunal of their judge , and to secure for them a sentence of applause , which sliaH render their happiness
immutable and everlasting . Let no vmhallowed tongue , then , attempt to despoil thee of thine honour , to degrade thy dignity , and to depreciate the service which thou art disposed to render to mankind , formed for happiness , but apt to err and miscarry in the pursuit of it ! Under thy conduct and influence may we be ever secure and happy 1 '" —HI . 274 , 275 . ( To be concluded in the next Number . )
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Art . II . —A Speech delivered in the House of Lords on Thursday , June 14 , 1821 , by Herbert , Lord Bishop of Peterborough ; in Answer to a Petition presented to the House of of Lords respecting his Exaynmation ' Questions . 8 vo . pp . 32 . Rivingtons . 1821 .
Art . III . —Episcopal Innovation ; or , the Test of Modern Orthodoxy , in Eighty-Seven Questions , imposed as Articles 'of Faith , upon Candidates for Licences and for Holy Orders , in the Diocese of Peterborough , with a Distinct Answer to each ufiu k
yguvsiiun , , urvnerue jl vjlccceons relative to their Illegal Structure and Pew&icious Tendency . 12 mo . j > p . 136 " . Sepiey . 1820 . Art . IV . —A Vindication of the * Questions proposed by the Bishop of Peterborough to Candidates for Licences and for Holy Orders within
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542 Review \**~ Peter borough Questions .
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his Dioeese , ftqrn the Objections contained in various Pamphlets * more particularly in one entitled , "Epis copal Innovation , Sfc" By the Rev . William Jephson , A . M . 8 vo pp . 70 . Rivington 3 . 1821 . Art . V . —A Letter to < in Undergraduate on the Subject of Episcopal Ordination , occasioned by the Introduction of Certain Questions into
one of the Dioceses of the Kingdom , and proposed to the Candidates for Holy Orders , demanding a full , clear and nnequhwcal Answer to every one of them on Pain of Exclusion from the Ministry , By Robert Hawker , D . D ., Vicar of
Charles , Plymouth . 8 vo . pp . 80 . Sherwood and Co . 1821 . THE controversy to which these pamphlets relate is of no mean importance . It occupies , at the present moment , the two great and active parties into which the Church of England is divided . The result tiifiy involve the momentous interestPfff
truth and freedom . We are lookers on , but not indifferent spectators . Bishop Marshes " Speech" was reported from the Times newspaper in a former Number , ( pp . 434—436 , ) and on comparing the report with the publication before us , we cannot but be
surprised at both its fulness and correctness . There is nothing , indeed , which is more decisive of the improved state of England than the accuracy with which the proceedings in
Parliament , in Courts of Law and Justice , and at Public Meetings , are related in the public journals , and within a few hours made known throughout the whole kingdom .
The " Questions" which have excited so much controversy and which form quite an era in the history of the Church of England , are inserted , from an Appendix to the third of these pamphlets ,
in the present Number ( pp . 5 O 7—511 ) A careless reader may see little in them ; but the practised theologian will instantly perceive that they penetrate to the marrow of some of the most vital
questions in religion , and that where they do not express much they imply the more . The Bishop , we think , makes good his legal right to enforce his " Questions > " but we cannot help thinking , that his adversaries have the advanta ^ when tkey deny his moral right to ini ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/38/
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