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its adherence to the tenets of the Established Church ; " regretting also , « that in that Church there could be found a clergyman who would venture to avow them / ' * Sir , those sentiments were mine , and that clergyman was myself ; or
rather , I should say , those sentiments were poured into my breast by one of the most transeendant names in the im perishable scroll of which that Church has been ever and justly
proud ! Sir , I am not ashamed to avow , that if not with his " mantle " to shield me , at least in the spirit of Chilljngworth , I am ready to challenge the keenest pen amongst his tributaries , in defence of what the Editor of the " Church- of-Ireland
Magazine" has been pleased to designate " as dangerous in its tendency and too latitudinarian" for his pages . And farther , I would hereby convey to him ( perhaps his eyes have never fallen upon your work , but it
may be reported to him ) that my persuasion is strong , that the man who " ventured" to pen that " notice" would , in those days ,, have acted , heart and soul , the part of the frantic Cheynell over the mortal remains of the great Chillingworth .
That illustrious person , you may remember , having been captured by the Parliament forces , died under the surveillance of that party , in the bishop ' s palace at Chichester ; there Cheynell had access to him , and
worried him with controversy during his illness ; but after his disease ( although ne had been so requested by Chillingworth ) refused to read the funeral service over him , because he could not think the expressions " hope" or " assurance / ' in that service , proper
over such a person ! Notwithstanding he recited a service of his own , includin g in the solemnity " the religion of Protestants , " which he conde mned to the same grave with * ts author , in the following
words' Get thee gone , then , thou cursed book , which hast seduced so many precious souls ; get thee gone , thou t'omipt , rotten book : earth to earth , and dust to dust : get thee gone into we place of rottenness , that thou
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mayest rot with thy author and se corruption !" Look * Sir , to the t € licences prefixed to that noble work , 4 € th < Religion of the Protestants ; " look t < the applauses with which it has beei named by every honoured writer oi our church from that hour to this .
and judge whether the man who could regard my address to the Rev . Mr Urwick ( of whom I shall speak presently ) as objectionable in its own nature , and unfit for a member of the Established Church to have written , can indeed be an honour to thai
church of which he presumes to be the advocate ; judge whether I am not warranted in affirming that , having vilified the sentiments I hav € drawn from her favourite , he would , in those days , have dishonoured the remains and insulted the works of the
man with whom it was her pride to be associated , and whom it is her glory to have produced ; whether he would not have hung over the grave of her Chillingworth with a countenance responsive to the miserable Cheynell ' s , and participated with orthodox ardour in the " his saltern
accumulem donis , " performed at his memorable obsequies 1 But , Sir , I am trespassing , and must think of concluding , if I am to entertain any reasonable hope of appearing in your pages . In truth , I should in all probability have committed to oblivion the circumstances
upon which I have been dwelling ,, were it not that I have lately had the gratification of perusing two most able and interesting tracts , "Remarks on the Character and Writings ! of Milton , " by I ) r . Ckanning , and a < c Review of the Progress of Religious ;
Opinions , " by M . Sismondi ; both ofi which have powerfully revived my impressions on the subject , and determined me to seek for some means of exposing the ridiculous and unworthy inconsistencies of which the ; " Ohurch-of-Ireland Magazine" must ;
stand convicted in the judgment of : every one who has the slightest understanding of the subject . There is ; reason to believe , too , if we mayjudge from certain recent menaces by Messrs . Wolfe and Pope , that ere these lines shall have reached you , a meeting will assemble in Dublin , in ordeir to throw down the gauntlet once
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Bible Controversy in Ireland . 5 J
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/3/
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