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an aristocratical and monarchical church , one ' formed according to the will of the Supreme Head / when he well knew that it was diametrically opposite to the letter and spirit of the most solemn , particular and repeated directions of the great Head of the Church on this subject— ' Call no man your 7 ) iaster on earth ; one is your master , even Christ , and all ye are
brethren , &c . '—I shall not stay to inquire ; but it may amuse the reader just to observe how this clerical pluralist exercises c his function towards the laity ? and more especially as it relates to tithes , —that species of property which was first voluntarily given by the people for various benevolent purposes , but of whicli they
were afterwards robbed by the clergy , who appropriated them to their own sole use . How they arc sometimes raised , even in the present enlightened age , I lately discovered in a catalogue , at a sale of a pawnbroker ' s unredeemed pledges , where , amongst other names and descriptions of property , I read as follows :
< c c Lots sold wider a distress for tit lies due to the . Rev , Dr . Gaskin , Rector of the UHited Parishes of St . Benet , Gracechurch Street , of St . Leonard , Kastcheap [ a ) id of St . Mary , Neimngton } . ' " Then follow eight lots of writingpaper , silver table and tea spoons , &c . " ' The following sold under a distress for tithes due to the Rev . Mr . Parker ,
( son-in-law of Dr . Gaskin , ) Rector of St . Ktheltmrga ? 66 Then follow five lots of yellow and mottled soap ! " I cannot help expressing my surprise lhat mv countrymen will not , on this subjeet , fake a hmfc from that great and liberal-minded statesman , the late Lord Chatham , at the commencement of the American war , when our debt and taxes were not one-fifth of what they are at
present . His Lordship , in a speech in the House of Lords , turning to the Right Reverend Bench , exclaimed ,- — Let the bishops beware of war ; for , should the people be pressed for money , they know tellerc . to look for it / ' It is a pity that amidst so much nonsense with which the nation is pestered at our agricultural meetings and in agricultural leports , and so much injustice as is proposed for relieving . the public , by Mr . Webb Hall on
the one side , Mr . Cobbett and-others on the other , such as new corn laws , and breaking public faith , &c , ruining thousands by the reduction of interest of the national debt , our real resources should not even be hinted at . Is there no patriot to he found in either House of the Legislature , following the excellent example of Mr . Hume respecting state abuses , who will recommend , ' An in-
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quiry into the natttre and amount of our church revenues ? Would Christianity suffer if a Bishop of Winchester ; of a Bishop of Durham , had not . £ 30 , 000 or ^ 40 , 000 a year ! or if our over- growu church revenues in England , and more
especially in that still more oppressed country , Ireland , Where the bishopnCiS are in general richer , and many thousands are wrung from a loirg-oppressed and impoverished people , not unfrequentl y iu places where little or no duty is
puformed , were inquired into ? Let Britain look at the church reformation which has taken place in France , and is now going forward in Spain and Portugal , the abolition of tithes , and the resumption of the useless and hurtful revenues of the
church , and blush at her bat and molelike stupidity r—Pp . 63 , 64 . Mr . B . Flower hits some hard blows at Mr . Cobbett in the concluding note , which we observe that this practised literary pugilist endeavours in a late Register to evade by dexterous byplay .
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Art . III . — A Help to Scriptural Worship , containing the Principal Sei'inces of the Church of England , in some tilings altered , according ly the Plan of Dr . Samuel Clarke : short Family Prayers : and a Selection of Psalms and Hymns : icitk
an Appendix 9 exhibiting various Readings of the Teat of the New Testament . 12 mo . pp . 332 . Exeter , printed and sold by Hedgeland ; sold also by Hunter , London . 4 . V . 6 d . 1821 . fTHHE plan of this work is explained JL in the Title . It is a reformed
Christian Common-Prayer Book , and also a manual of private and family devotion . The anonymous compile seems to have wished to prepare p ious offices for members of the Church ot England , dissenting from their ^ own church on the doctrine of the Trinity ,
but carrying their dissent no farther than simple Unitarianisin imp lRN Hence this compilation differs from the Essex-Street liturgy chiefl y J il closer adherence to the book or
Common Prayer . If we must classify still more particularly , we would say that it is adapted to such as embrace the Arian hypothesis , and , generally , to sucli as are not scrupulous in the use of commonly-received theology language . The editor has preserved
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242 Review . —A Help to Scriptural Worship .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/50/
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