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( 4 . ) I must not oiaait one oth ^ r remark ^ Jest an inference should fee drawot from a passage not yet noticed to the prejudice of those vvhiqU aptpeatf to be afforded by the sentences cited aboveu In r ^ fe ^ ence ta the admission of Dissenters into civil ^ inploynasnt ^ the author Ihue expresses kieaself :
r < Many persons of eminence seeaa to wish that sooje who are now Dissenters could be employed in , the ser * - viee of government , and something has b ^ endone in the present reiga ,. * . What expedient should be adopted , ^ a , y be thought the business of a statesman
rather than ^ churchnaan to determine * Were I to hazard a propq& ^ Jl U should be > that the church should b ^ A n > l ^ rged and the executive government still confined to that churchy with the most perfect toleration tQ opinions . aud worship that could be gi ^ en . But deliberations of councils must be wanted
to settle suck weighty matters as these /'—Id . IL iii . Ch . xiv * Sect * xv « Vol . ILp , 155 . On a cursory perusal it might be imagined the author would be for maintaining- the subsisting exclusion against Dissenters . But this cannot be inferred till it be determined how
far he would have thought "the church should be enlarged / ' And from indications in his work and circumstances in his history , it may be reasonable to presume , he was dis * posed to go as far in opening it as any in the honourable baud of clerical assenters of religious freedom , who in
his day petitioned for such a relaxation from the chains of subscription as would have substituted in place of human Articles the Holy Scriptures themselves j and some of the principal among whom , and therefore probably the rest , thus sought to reader the iuclosure of tko church no narroyyer
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(^ . ^ ! T \ ik&& ^ elecfciQfiB &m : faat ^ peci * njeos of many ^ iipUtt . pifec ^ le »> tod 9 twntirnents to jbe ^ foui ^ l in different parts * ef ' ..: 4 ke- iLectarea * Through a large p ^ rtionr rf theoa ^ indeed , formtBir an exposition m £ the Church-af-En ^ ianfl Articles ;* th « re tun * , a vein of refined and atteouated diatinctlojn ^*
which many of your readers might , I think , deem a tissue of sophasticai casuistry i but they wotfld not cast th& blame on the reasoning :-powers of th « Lectuter ; « aid though his book has not tilt lately attained to a second edition * aad the author never attained to any of the high dignities of which his abilities and character would appear to
have been not unworthy , it is irapos * siblenot to suppose that such instruct dons from such a teacher must have wide and lasting * influence among the contemporary and subsequent generalions of students in the University . < & ) Maytatft important suggestions be hence derived for the defence of
Unitariafri « ai whenever it may be for * raally put to a judicial defence of its legality T—If tbe law expressly declares that it forbids only " attacks on Christianity in gseaeral , " and that it will not
interfere with ** Disputes and Dicrer * ences among the learned , upon parti * eular controverted points ; " * if a teacher in the church aad university could state that ** . Socini&ns , " that is ,
eppugners of the Trinity , were even 30 at 40 years ago " considerable in numbers and literature ; " that " Churchmen and Socinians are agiecd on the divine authority of Christianity— -on all the fundamental points of natural and revealed
FeKgum , " - should they have cause for absolute despondence ? In support o * stich a defence , it would seem to mo that much of reason and authority remains to l * e adduced : much more
than might be readily found , or will-* ngly « ought ^ - or steadily contended * or , by tho € c engaged in ordinary professional practice , and who have jwn aocuetomed to look at suck
sub-} va $ m none but the one single point ui view supposed to be prescribed by liJw ; who , insefiBibly influenced by , or designedly en ^ loyiag-, the magic of sounds , regard what isj established , enough only by power , as if established > y reason , perhaps by divine authority ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/13/
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