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viation in opinion from what they con ^ ceive to be the doctrines of the Church by law established , would be a just cause for withdrawing their allegiance , and , of course , for deposing the offending monarch , and placing a lnore
orthodox prince uppn the throne . The principle has now been avowed ^ and must be regarded as extending to an invasion of civil rights as well as to an error in religious opinions . Thus , then , we find , on this fundamental point at least , Tories , Whigs and Reformers are agreed : ALLEGIANCE IS CONDITIONAL . "
This prudent man deprecates the spread of certain principles , while he is acting the highly imprudent part of making all these matters known to the worid at large , who , without his impertinent interference , would have remained ignorant of the controversy , and free from all doubts of the true
orthodoxy of the Church of England . Fearful of the evilnvhich a single copy of Evanson ' Dissonance might work , he went to the sale of Mr . Thomson ' s books , after his death , for the express purpose of buying the Dissonance , in order to destroy it : ; that it might not
fall into the hands of other people , and poison their minds . And , while he is calling the public attention to the points in debate , and is raking up all the grievances of Sir Rose ' s conduct for the last three years , he concludes his letter of March last with
these pathetic words : " Oh ! Sir , Peace , Peace to your neighbours , Peace to your family , Peace to yourself . " < Vex not with horrid shrieks our quiet grove / ' *
Did not the name of Le Grice make we much suspect , that he is descended from one of those sufferers for conscience' sake who fled from the persecutions in France , and from its <( religion established by law , one might take this to be a translation of the
lamentation of an ancestor , one of those Druids who found their last home in the wilds of Cornwall , dreading the searching eye of Christianity and the tongues of Gregory and his associates ; and , who , i » the agony of grief cried out for peace to themselves , to their neighbours , and to their pure and holy religion . No
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shrink sounded so grating" in their ears as the name of Christ and hia g-ospel . But they were wiser tliaii Le Griee * and sought security in their silence .
Sir Rose has ventured to prognostic cate , " that the Church , with its pre * sent doctrines , cannot stand twenty years ; that the King and the aristocracy of the country will seek re * formation and will effect it z" and he
is charged by L . G . " with endeavouring- to get into Parliament , that he might attempt the overthrow of the Church altogether / ' Respecting such a Kne of conduct , he observes that , iC Whoever shall presume to innovate , alter , or misrepresent any point in
the articles of the Church of England , ought to be arraigned as a traitor to the State ; heterodoxy in the one naturally introducing heterodoxy in the other : a crime which it concerns the Civil magistrate to restrain and punish , as well as the Ecclesiastical . "
It can scarcely be doubted that such language as this , and what has been mentioned before / has given much concern to the good and ( jiiiet sons of the Church in Cora wall . It has been generally felt how extremely
imprudent Le Grice has been , thus to call into public notice what it were wise to let lie at rest ; that , while the multitude are doubting of nothing , the clergy may remain in that happy state so desirable to those who live on the
labour of others , and are battening on the spoils of their forefathers * credulity . This conviction has called forth several earnest supplicators , whose arguments are so plausible , that there is reasrin to expect , the pen of Le Grice will now be laid at rest , as that of the Baronet already
is . One who styles him $ elf Orthodox , tells us , " He should not despair of the conversion of a Papist , who truly believes in our Saviour ' s divinity : but the Socinian , who scarcely believes
that there is a God , is a very terrible animal , and we have small ground to hope for his salvation , or that God will ever vouchsafe him sufficient grace to reclaim him from errors , which have been immediately levelled against himself . ''
A bystander , calling himself Amicm deprecates the measures that have been pursued , and intreats that
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154 Summary of the Cornish Controversy *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/26/
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