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spirit p £ qmj > £ 3 , to vyprry and devour one another . « D $ . Marsh topk great pains , some time ago , as his Jfqlimss li ^ s since done , to prove hpw evei ^ dai \ gerous it Is to send the BiWe into the world * \ vithout note or comment ; ' and he wished the Prayer-Book * to be circulated with it as a € safe *
guard * The secret , however , is now come out ; and we learn that his'Lordship is as jealous of the <* Prayer Book * going abroad alone , as he formerly was of the Bible : and that he cannot even
suffer it in the hands of c Candidates for Holy Orders ^ witho ut the commentary contained in these * Questions' as a * safeguard ? Bo we wonder that Gajidolphy should have claimed Dr . Marsfi as a
Brother £ . nd a Papist / / " Dr . JMarsh , in his * Address to the University of Cambridge , ' and subsequent controversy against the Bible Society , certainly made a great show of zeal aiid regard for * the * Prayer-MoohJ And * he at the ^ s ame . time ( in order to T discredit the Calmmstic GtergM , < \ yho , he Ws , ^ ely
ner ^ support rthe [ Bible Society ) , ta % inuales $ j $ t * tfcey * « , c # fipqt have > i $ u@h pain in . parting v \ if ltji ; the ^ itur ^ y / ft becomes now a grave a ? idiiuportaut inquiry , why Dr . l \ lamh ( now fiishop gf Peterborough ) should feel so close an attachment to the Liturgy , while CaJvinistic Clergy ' cannot * feel such attachment . —We can assure his Lordship ,
however , that the ' Calvinistw Clergy ( under which appellation he includes the Evangelical , not a few of whom are not Cadvinistic ) dp most highly esteem the Liturgy ; and that no event could eas ^^ y fc& mentioned which would give them more c pain * than its destruction .
" We hope that a sufficient body of evidence has been afforded in the preceding pages , to prove ; the coincidence of sentimei } t between the iJhurch of England and those Clergymen ; and we further trust . that as little doubt remains upon the reader ' s mind about the want of
conformity to the Church documents in the sentiments of Dr . Marsh . No unprejudiced reader can for a moment hesitate to decide who loves ] the Liturgy most for its own intrinsic excellency . Its prayers and its dpctrines breathe the spir it of heavenly devotion . And to every evangelical divine , they are the ^ Theme of his instructi on and the Life of his soul . But
does any thing like this appear iu the spirit and language of these Questions ? Alas , nothing like | t . For what then does &r . Marsh assume to value , in so superior a manner , our admirable < Litw&gy * ? The following sentence % n Jlis adcjress m $ y possibly , help us to a solution of the diffi-
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culty —; The established Liturgy is the Tenure of Civil and Ecclesiastical Preferment / 9 ^ Dqes it then , we asjc , stand cojifeased that the evangelical Clergy Jove the Liturgy for its . intrinsic excell ency * its scriptural doctrines , and its ^ . spiriltwl purity , while Dr . Marsh loves it because it is the
* tenure of Ecclesiastical Preferment ? 2 But if this be true , ihad we a Popish , a Sociniqn * Liturgy ; or ojne as highly Calvinistic as te suppqses ours to be otherwise , wJiateyer might l > e the effect upon the Evangelical . Clergy ^ his Lordship y ever
true to tl ^ e Liturgy as * the tenure of ecclesiastical preferment , * wquki still continue to retain his Lvxings or enjoy his Bishopric ! /" -r-Pp . 106 , 107 . This Author taxes Bishop Marsh with Jesuitry . Tfhe Bishop might retort , if it were not at the expense of
tlreir , cqunjBon chiirch . ^ Phe Baptisjxx $ \ ^ fihric declares infants baptized , jtp be reger ^ erjate . This , says the Bishop , is , Christian regeneration . No , i ^^ ys his antagonist , referring to the substitution of godfathers and godmo-* h ^ rs -for the unconscious infants ; a profession being m ^ de , the Church
accepts it " in charity apd in faith . " * ^| ie vannot make a service for any tyui jspirityql receivers , ftpr can sJt \ e qojyyagr receivers ^ s ai ^ y other than ^ pjrit ^ Lp ^ rsap ' s ^ THQUGHSHE . KNOws " , { j £ e ! camt ^ . aFe our own ) " Aijt , wim * MOw } fH& . $ jiCH . '' . —Pp . 88 .
Mr . JephsOn is a respectable writer , but less versed in controversy than the Author to whom he replies . He is quite as * ' orthodox" as he can be , but he makes no needless parade of his capacity for believing . A
charitable spirit pervades his pages , a ^ d , though' be doe ^ s not vaunt himself of it , he . appears to us to luiderstand fully the true Protestant principle . with regard to authority in matters of faith : what can be better than tj ^ fe paragraph ?
" For ^ fter ajl , it xs not . ^ to tlje Articles of any Church onjy , which are not of Divine Authority , but to the Bible , and to the Bible alone , that we must make our final appeal , as that is the only rock impregnable upon which the true Church must be . built , *'—^ Yind . p ; 25
Tiere , is flipt . much vivacity iiiMr . Jepfrepn ' s jpfg ^ s , tout he c ^ n ^ etort with soo ^ ef ^ tt ^ art ^ ess : # g . " By the confession of the author ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/41/
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