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rary acquirements , ' * fi $ fc ' ;^ $ ; j > KKti f > was well qualified ta addressthe youW gentlemen at York ; ancMris Serrnotf from Titus ii . 15 , eon tains * ' Counsels of Prudence" by which the hearers and the readers in like circumstances * cannot fail to profit , '
The preacher asserts the respectability of the office of a Dissenting Mi . mstert " It is true that , as a body , Bissemiug Ministers are not endowed with that wealth which , in this kingdom , bestows
upon its possessors the factitious importance which is vulgarly designated by that much abused and much prostituted term " respectability . " We hold not by virtue of our office any superior rank in the community at large . We claim no authority over others beyond that of our individual influence . We are not
enumerated among those who derive a degree of consequence from the circuits stauce , that they can maintain their station in society without any active exertion on their own parts . From the honours and emoluments which constitute what has been , as I think , profanely called the majesty of the church / we
are by principle as well as by circumstances absolutely excluded . But still we may be fairly and reasonably admonished in the words of Paul , * Let no man despise you . ' For I will venture to say that if by any reasonable man we are despised , this circumstance must be attributed to ourselves and to our
individual deportment , rather than to the nature of our office /*—Pp . 5 , 6 . IJe then shews by an enumeration of the Dissenting Minister ' s duties , that there is nothing in his office which is not venerable and dignified . He founds the same conclusion upon the principle of Dissent , as brought into
action in the case of pastors : " And here let me remark , that if our office be in itself respectable , the circumstances of our entrance upon it are no less so . We assume not that office , in our particular situations , by virtue of the mandate of a patron , by the authority of an ecclesiastical superior , or by the right of rotation as conceded to the members
of any seminary of academical instruction . Our respective congregations do not wait the will of others as to the nomination and appoint incut ot then pastors . We are not forced upon i *> luctant ilocks by the process of arbit rary compulsion ; nor do we make any peremptory demands upon them for °
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Art . VI . —A Sermon , preached in St . Saviour gate . Chapel , York , on Sunday , June 25 , 1 82 ( J , and addressed to the Students of ] M and tester College . By William Shepherd . 8 vo . pp . 24 . Hunter . 1826 . TTj ^ ROJM his standing in his ricnotni-X ? nation , his character and his lite-
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ledge and of moral and religious exertxotr Wring tins period . He alleges also the circumstances of our insular situation , and of our country riot being the actual seat of war , as abatements of the evil . We fear that lie
has supplied an argument to his Malthusiart friend in the admission that * ' from removing idle and vicious persons out of the country , tours mat / have rendered it morepttre . " ( P . 7 $ *} He adds , it is true , a consideration which ought to be of weight on the mind of a minister of the gospel , * ' that these men have been removed
to situations where their moral regeneration was little likely to be effected , and where the probability is , ttat they became more depraved and died in their sins . " There are great moral evils arising from war which Mr . Thrush has not
pointed out . We would particularly specify its tendency to render human life cheap and human nature contemptible . Perhaps , this topic , with others which have occurred to us as
omissions , may be brought into the Second Part of the Observations , which the benevolent author promises , and whicli we shall be glad to receive . Peace Societies may be of great use
by collecting * facts , and by distributing cheap publications : we doubt , however , whether they have obtained much influence upon the public mind 5 and we are certain that no associations
whatsoever can do the hundredth part of the good that is done by such a writer as Mr . Thrush , who speaks what he has seen and felt ; and who has purchased his freedom of sj > eech on this subject by the sacrifice of rank and emolument at the altar of
Conscience . He seems to be fully apprized of the arduousness of the conflict in which he is engaged , and we trust he will persevere , acting on the assurance that in moral warfare a defeat is no disgrace , and that victory is a blessing to such as are overcome .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/46/
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