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TAs the attention 6 £ the country is more drawn towards Ireland , ? the B 8 &-. tory and present state of the Presbyterians in that country becomes an object 6 f inquiry . Their numerical strength , ( half a million ofpeople , ) their singular ecclesiastical constitution , a sfeeondary endowed
chiirchestablishment / and their gene tat tendency 'towards a free and charitable spirit in matters of religion , render them peculiarly interesting to the readers of the Monthly Repository . There are two publications from which we are able to take an outline of their
history , and it is singular that both of these are proofs of the revival of religious zeal amongst our Irish brethren . One is a new edition of Towgood ' s " Dissent from the Church of
England , ? pnnted at Newry , in 1816 : € to wluch is added a Large Appendix , illustrative of the History ; Principles and Present State of the Presbyterian Church , particularly that of Ireland /' [ To our copy of the C € Dissent- is attached €€ An Essay on Church Consecration , " by James Crombie , D . T > . ; one of the ministers of the fitfst
Congregation of Presbytefrans in Belfast , printed at the same press , in the same yeary a sensible pamphlet , well worthy of being reprinted in England . ] The other is a new edition of Palmer ' s " Nonconformists * Catechism /* with
an additional chapter , containing " A Brief History of the Irish Presbyterians / ' in question and answer , by a Presb yterian clergyman pf Carrickfergu $ , who entertains the design of wri tinjf a complete Jiisjtory of his body , and who , if we may jtidge from this specimen , is fully qualified for the work , which is a desideratum ii >
ecclesiastical literature . In the following sketch , every thing is borrowed from these two works . The Appendix to the Dissent is the ba 3 * 3 of the article ; tfee paragraph iidtmii brackets are from the addition to the Catechism . The history Will' be completed in this and the following Number . We call the attention particularly of our Irish
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readers to this attempt to familiarize to the English public a people little known to them , and solicit their assistance in correcting , explaining , or extending the memoir . Ed . J GEORGE BROWN , whom Henry VIII . had created archbishop of Dublin , was the first person who j > Ub ^ licly attempted to reform therelig ^ dn
of Ireland . / Durincr the * " reiofiis s ' of of Ireland . During thereigns ? £ Henry and Edward , he made considerable progress in abolishing thej Popish superstitions . Queen Mary ^ had meditated great severities agaitist the Irish Protestants ; but dylnjg ^ foite
her designs were carried : in ^ d e ^ fe ^ tion , the accession of Elizabetli saved them from the intended persecution . * [ As yet , no distinction of Protestants was known in Ireland . One
instance will suffice to shew this to be the fact * The second Provost of Trinity College , Dublin , was Walter Travers , a Presbyterian minister , ordained at Antwerp , and adnditted to
the Provostship in 1592 , though maintaining his Presbyterian principles . To this it may be added , that the two persons , who , after public examination , first obtained the situation of
Fellows in this College , were also Presbyterians . These were Mr . James Fullarton and Mr . James Hamilton ; the latter being tutor to the celebrated Usher , and afterwards ennobled by the title of Lord Clandeboy . ]
When James I . came to the throne of England , the British and Protestaiit interests were extremely low in Ireland . The government had , at an early period , encouraged many
English families to remove into that country , to assist in keeping the native inhabitants in subjection ; but a considerable number of the settlers haVingreturned home , to assist in the contest between the houses of York and
Lancaster , the Irish , who were extremely impatient of the English yoke , soon manifested atfrigli degree of in-• Mosh . Eccles . Hist . Vol . III . p . 263 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1824, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2530/page/1/
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