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tbfffttw ^ MWw W & $ jzmm& TheirA etep ^ o ^ is r ^ prob ^ g , byXrot-d OrfbrcF . ^ 3 . iacdasistent sVith the spirit of tjji ( i % Wfe r ^ jr * * ' Ocie cao , source co ^ Bieive /^ says his Lords ^ y " a gr ^ je ? . ft (> svirdi ty than retaitiing tk ^ / A ?»^ Bply days dedicated td > the House of Stoart . Was the preservation of
J ^ mes- tb ^ First ^ greater blessing to England than the destruction of the Spanish Armada , for which no fes * tivalis established ? Are we more or less free for the execution of King Charles ? Are we at this day still guilty of his blood ? When is the itain to be washed out ? What sense
is there in thanking Heaven for the restoration of a family whicja it so soon became necessary to expel again ? What action of Charles the Second proclaimed him the Sent of God ? In fact , does not the superstitious jargon rehearsed on those days tend to annex an idea of sainthood to a
worthless and , exploded xace ? And howeasjrto make the populace believe that there was a divine right in a family , the remarkable events of whose reigns are melted into our religion and form a part of our established worship ! " The enlightened Churchman and the conscientious Dissenter
unite in praying that the blessings of the Revolution of 1688 may descend , with every improvement of which it is susceptible , down to our children's children , to latest posterity !
As to the Stuarts , we have done with them for ever ! They are consigned to the tomb of the Capulets . Recently at Rome the last of the race expired , and George the Fourth has generously raised there a mausoleum
to their memory . George the First and George the Second , harassed by the rebellions of 1715 and 1745 , would have been glad to have had it in their power to erect a similar memorial of the extinction of the
family . But the ghost of these departed worthies , the Stuarts , atill haunts us in the odious form of the Test Act and other penal laws disgracing the statute book ! The ^ e
spectral horrors are , however , not to he compared with that huge , unsightly mass of intolerance which , agonizing tUe hearts of our forefathers , ground them down to the dust . Indeed , these lesser evils arc daily attenuating be-
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the advent of . Wilil&m , J ^ ad a similar object ;—the prevention of the return of Popery 1 Thus the providence of God , through means die most Jiulikely , and by instruments most unpromising , is in every age accomplishing his purposes of love and merey towards mankind .
I conclude in the words of the late Dr . Charles Symmons , of Jesus' College , Oxford , the biographer of Johis Milton : cc glory , as I profess myself to be a Whig ,-to be of the school af . Samers and of Locke , to arrange myself in
the same political class with those enligliteued and -virtuous statesmen who framed the Bill of Rights arid tfye AjcL of Settlement * and who , presenting a crown which they had
wrested from a pernicious bi ^ ot and his family to the House of Hanover , gave that most honouijable and legitimate of titles , the free choice of the people , to the Sovereign , who now wields the imperial sceptre of Britain . " J . EVANS . ^
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m - Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for April \ 1825 . - MR . FREND'S PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TRANSLATION , &c . The state of public feefcing " , it is to be feared , is not yet quite ripe for the reception of this laudable
project . But the time is manifestly hastening on , when its execution will be called for , and that without requiring the co-operation of any society to defray the incident expense . At present , I imagine , a book which
is more wanted , and which would tend to prepare the way for Mr . Frend * & scheme , ia a compact , lucid , running commentary on the English version , of which one -leading feature should be , to reconcile to the fundamental doctrines of Unitarianism every text apparently opposed to them . I feel certain , that such a work , if well com-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/15/
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