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sity that W . H . would adduce as an excuse for these gentlemen-, would equally be an excuse for any persons taking the Sacrament or signing the Thirty-nine Articles for the purpose
of obtaining any official situation . I am not willing to enlarge on this subject myself , and endeavour to prove that tbis practice is wrong , but shall be content to refer to the writings of a man , whose character the more I
contemplate the morel admire ; whom , though unconnected with by any ties of relationship , I can only think of with sentiments of filial reference and respect ; who shed a lustre upon his
own age , surpassed by none and equalled by few ; who was not more distinguished for his virtues in private life than for his conscientious integrity in a public station ; who , if he had chosen to sacrifice his conscientious scruples ,
might have enjoyed some of the highest honours in the Church—I mean the author of the Confessional , Archdeacon Blackburne . In his work I could find many passages to support my position , but the quotation is unnecessary . I refer with confidence to the name of the most venerable and
excellent Lindsey , whose life may be the polar star to a Christian in * the path of his duty . But , nay , to come more to our own circle , I could refer to a man of the present day and generation , whose spirit , like that of
the immortal Locke , was too great for the University in which he had been educated , whose separation from the Church , whose total abandonment of its honours for conscientious motives , when they were almost within his
reach , imparts to his name an honour which , though envied , cannot be diminished , and which even in him forms the highest object of our admiration .
These are instances of steady Christian conduct worthy of the apostolic age . May they influence the rising generation to " come forward as the champions of a good cause , animated by the recollection that the race is
not always to the swift , nor the battle to the strong , and by the hope of an inheritance incorruptible , undefiled , and that fadeth not away ! A LAYMAN .
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Sneed Paris new Bri&t $ 9 Sir , Marefclfr , l $ M ^ - < OUR Manchester correspondent , Y"A Friend to Free Inquiry *" ( p . 83 , ) has a fair claim to my eas * plaining in what sense I used the epithet evangelical . Perhaps if I b ^ d substituted apostolical , it might have been more unexceptionable ; but as I could not be so far misunderstood as
to lead any to attribute to me the yet popular notions on the subject of the salvation by Christ , and guarded nay use of what I think the most expressive term by the expression " what I may be allowed to call evangelical , " I have no regret that I employed it .
It cannot be necessary for any of your readers , that I should refer the word to its origin , $ nd say that it corresponds with gospel when used as an adnoun ; or that I should remind them that the import of gospel ( godes spel ) , and of evangelium , eva . yys \ iov ,
is glad tidings : but my justification rests upon it . My sentiments have become increasingly evangelical , by my feeling more and more the immense importance and value of the gospel as the glad tidings of salvation , not only by conveying hopes full of
immortality and rescuing from the darkness of the grave and shedding light on the way of duty , but also as a dispensation of divine love to sinful man , of mercy to pardon , and grace to help in time of need . I review
what I wrote on these subjects fourteen or fifteen years ago , with a cheering persuasion that I have little or nothing to unsay ; and , as it respects doctrine , little even to add : but it is also with a fulness of heart and
comprehensiveness of view which I did not then experience . The same expressions appear to me to mean much more , to have a greater force , a more extensive applicability to the wants and weaknesses of the children of
error , sin and death . I feel more as I think the apostles must have done , when I meditate on the inestimable blessings of the gracious message , the glad tidings , the gospel of peace and pardon and everlasting life . And I see more clearly and more fully the wisdom and the mercy of the appointment which set forth Christ Jesufe as
the mercy-seat , and caused it to be sprinkled with his own blood . And partly indeed because I am lefts likel \
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/) r . Carpenter on the Word " Evangelicals' 155
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/27/
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