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oki story of 4 € no note and comment , " I am not without hope that I may receive this benefit . I must , however , just hint , that should I be thus enlightened , I do not promise to become a very ample contributor to the funds of these institutions , for though I
think no book so important for circulation as the Bible , I am not quite satisfied , that the union of Conformists and Nonconformists , for even this glorious object , is desirable . I have heard , at the meetings which I have attended , a great deal said on the
glorious spectacle the ^ fe Exhibited , of zealous Christians forgetting their points of difference , to co-operate for this grand object ; but I think I see no particular affection engendered in the
bosom of the High-Church Priest toward his Dissenting neighbour , by their annually speechifying in succession on the subject of the Bible ; while there is great danger of the descendants of the venerable Puritans
becoming insensible to the value of those principles for which their ancestors braved tribulation and death , if through the means of these occasional meetings , they become familiar
with the smiles and favours of nobility . I acknowledge myself at times doubtful of the correctness of my conclusions , relative to the disingenuousness of the members of our Bible
Societies , from the circumstance that among the supporters of them , are members of the Society of Friends , who we know are so scrupulous of appearing to approach to falsehood , that they will not call the months by the names usually allotted to them ,
but persist in terming them the first , second or third month , &c . It is indeed true , that the Friends , though an excellent body of people in . many respects , are not remarkable for the extent of their religious inquiries , nor for depth of general knowledge ; but
I presume they must be aware that the summary prefixed to the chapters of our version , nay , even the division of chapters itself , were not in those Scriptures from which ours were rendered into English . This
knowledge is not , however , always found where it might be fairly expected ; for I remember hearing a young minister , when discoursing on the excellence of charity , remark , among other things , that the apostle felt it « worth so much ,
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that , in Ms , Epistle to the Corinthian s he not only thought it right to devote one chapter to the enumeration of its qualities , but absolutely ' began a second with this interestijigsu ^ ect .
It is really , Mr . Jbditor , hardly possible to conceive to what pitch of intellectual glory and enjoyment the poor South-Sea Islanders may attain , when taught by Missionaries deepl y read , as was the above minister , with our Scriptures , as now circulated with'out note and comment , in their hands NON CON . — -M ^ MMV ^
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Sylva Biographic a . ( Continued from XVI . 667 . ) VII . NO . 226 . Isaac Ambrose , a minister ' s son , was born in Lan ~ cashire , became a Butler * of Brazen-Nose College , in 1621 , aged 17 , took ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ - ¦ ¦ ' —»—— ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ — ii ¦¦¦ i ^ . » —¦ ¦¦ + ^* m *^^ m ^^> « w » *" ¦ ¦¦ ' '
? " A scholar that battles or score s for diet in the University . " Diet . An& *~ Brit , 1715 , in voco .
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224 American Law against impugfSng the Trinity .
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Sir , April 10 , 1822 1 LATELY observed in Mr . Cobbett ' s Register for February 2 nd last , that among- his reasons which he
assigns , in his Letter to Mr . Carlile , for a " dislike to republican government , " he alleges the following recent instance of persecution : "In the year 1819 , a man was tried in New Jersey , under the act of King William III ., for impugning the Holy
Trinity , found guilty , and punished by imprisonment in the common gaol . " I quote this passage with the hope that one of your transatlantic correspondents , if not a correspondent on this side the water , may furnish you with some particulars respecting this modern enforcement of a barbarous
statute which disgraced a regal , and very ill becomes a republican , government . It is indeed a statute on a subject so remote from the fair objects of national convention , as ta be only worthy of a government in which " priests
are instructed to teach speculative despotism , and graft on religious affections , systems of civil tyranny . " Such , according to Catharine Macaulay , the government of Charles I ., before his royal propensities were effectually controlled by the Long Parliament . GAM ALIEL .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/32/
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