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    Sir , LATE occurrence in my neighjTjL bQurhpod led me to reflect upon the gross inconsistency of the ultra-religious , who place so much of their religion in the Jewish observance of the sabbath . They will harass and

    distress a poor widow who sells ior her livelihood a bunch of greens on the Sunday , and yet they themselves will countenance and uphold practices which are equally a violation of the sanctity of the day , according to their own notion of sanctity . Without any

    ilonbt of its propriety , they take places in short sta ^ e-coaehes , ( the difference between skorts and longs in this respect involves a great deal of religion ) or call hackney coaches on the

    Sunday , though these vehicles cannot run without taking many persons ( horsekeepers , drivers , watermen , &c . ) from church duties , and laying a burden upon the poor beasts employed , which the Jewish s <\ bbatie law forbids . Thev

    will also open without compunction letters by the Monday ' s post , which . have been on the road all the preceding clay , and in their transit have made a host of sabbath-breakers . And again , who reads more eagerly the Monday morning newspapers ,

    the getting" up of which is well known to occupy the printers a great part of the Sunday in labour ?—These inconsistencies should surely teach the £ i \ ger observers of days and prosecutors , or , correctly speaking , "

    persecutors , of ' non-observers , that they liiive something of the Pharisee in

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    them ; for while they strain at the gnat , they swallow the camel . A few years ago an association was formed for enforcing , by the strong arm of the law , " the better

    observance of the Lord ' s day . " An appeal was made to the public for support in a project which was to divert the wrath of God from a guilty land . One of the patrons of the pious scheme was , at the very time of its announcement , seen every Sunday driving a

    pair of jaded horses from pillar to post—from a Tabernacle here , to an Ebenezer there , in order , no doubt , to explain and recommend the duty of man and beast doing no manner of

    work on the seventh day , which in . popular oratory is always assumed to be the first day of the week . The projector of the combination was young in a profession , the members of which sometimes make work for

    themselves ; and it this sabbatic company be dissolved , it may be supposed to be owing to other and more profitable companies having been projected . *

    Works of necessity and charity have been generally allowed on the Sunday by the severest Sabbatarians 3 but so far do some professors of the sabbath day carry this their religion , that they hold it unlawful to take off the beard

    on this day , and even begin to look with an evil eye upon Sunday-schools . The Wesleian Methodists have deterin ined in Conference that the sabbath is profaned when it is employed in teaching poor children to write !

    With all this zeal for the sanctity of the Lord ' s day , we sec the chapels of the zealots frequently turned into scats of money-changers . Sunday is the great day for collections , though it is contrary to the Jewish law of the

    sabbath to touch money within the sacred twenty four hours . Nay , there is a great trade carried on in sohie of the most thronged chapels on the Sunday ; the vestry being turned into a sitopfor the sale of hymn-books , tune-books , sermons and pamphlets .

    I am no enemy , 1 am a sincere friend , to the religious employment of the first day of the week ; but I cannot consent to the application to Christians of merely Jewish laws , nor hear without strong dislike professions contradicted by practice . ONE OF THE GENTILES .

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    feat of his antagonist is in my opinion comp lete . I have only to observe , in conclusion , that with all Dr . Copleston ' s learning and talent , his reputation as

    a sound reasoner is greatly impaired by the present publication . He has absurdly attempted to identify the doctrines of Fate and Philosophical Necessity ; he has failed in proving the two pernicious consequences which he attributes to the latter ; his nrinci-^_ j ^^ ^ p- — — — .. _ — _ _ _ — — — ___ . ^ — — ^^ __ — _ „ v W ^ — — —

    ^ pal example of fallacy in the use of language is irrelevant to the purpose for which it was introduced ; and his reasoning on the distinction between analogy and resemblance has been combated with signal success . Cjdericus Cantabrigiensis

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    Inconsistency of Sabbatarians , 557

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 557, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/41/