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E * k > n , suffer uiuldr the bl ^ tiu ^ infinence d € waiv Christians , vftio for many generations have delighted in waay aod trained up their childrea to it &s the road to honour and glory , cannot be too often reminded that ex all who take the sword shall perish with ? the swwd . "
It appears to me not improbable that * Mr . Thrush , by what he has done and written on the subject of " peace on earth /* is more likely ta serve the cause of true religion , with whieh I identify Unitarianitmi , than by what he has written , or may wrfte , in the way of theological controversy .
I should truly rejoice if the remark of our Transatlantic brother should stimulate English Unitarians to deserve the pfaise he-hats , improperly , bestowed upon them . A CONSTANT READER .
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Sm , FINDING the interest excited by ray remarks on the " Moral and Christian Use of the Lord ' s Supper " ( p . 39 ) has subsided , and somewhat
alarmed by your recent declaration , that the present year closes the series ef the Repository under your direction , I hasten to reply to two of your correspondents who have favoured me by their attention , if not by the censure in which it has been
conveyed . I had certainly supposed it to be possible for liberality of sentiment and good feeling to outgrow the morbid influence of a penal statute . How many yet upon our statute book are beeome quite obsolete by
the prevalence of this mode of repealing them ! But religious irritability is , it appears , apart from the dominion of this sphere of correction , bristling its front against all soothing or attempt at modification . I would inquire of my opponents to point out any part of my argument
on the " Christian Use of the Lord's Supper , " which has any reference whatever to the Corporation and Test Act . As this question formed no part of my subject , I ivas not a little surprised to see it so thoroughly mixed u | y with that of my opponents . Nor can I suggest any adequate reason for this conduct ot theirs , except
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that facumtaon Quean Mab exercises who in her nightly-jowafiy drives * " O ' er lawyers' fingeraf , 1 * h 6 straight B dream oa fees ; O ' er ladies' lips , who * Strfcifclit on kisses dream : **
for mention but a Htafral participation in the Lord ' s Slipper , and A Lay , man exclaims , ( p . 153 , ) the ** Te » t and Corporation Act still appears on
our statute book ; " and A Protestant Dissenter cries out , ( p . 164 , ) " Conform or not conform , that is the question . ' * Now this sensitive and querulous affection happens to be
quite out of place , as these questions involve no part of my argument . It is true they are implied in a deduction formed from that argument " as an apology for the test required by la \\ r for eligibility to offices of trust or emolument . " What
then ? Was it logical to attack the inference apart from the premises ? —the apology , ( whether well or illgrounded , ) without sapping the foundation by which it was upheld ? Indeed , no part o £ that foutidatioa has hitherto been assailed . I desire not
to repeat myself , but I beg to be distinctly understood , that if my view of the Moral and Christian use of the Lord's Supper be correct , and the benign influence of it was to become universally prevalent , the Test and Corporation Act , whether repealed or not , would sink into utter obli *
vion . I have no occasion to restate any of the reasons for drawing the conclusion they have led unto , as none of them have yet been invalidated . Had A Layman kept his eye upon them , and to whatevet weight they possess given his undivided attention , there would have been little
difference existing between us . With the prejudice of popular opinion , the world , or the world ' s wife , I have nothing to do . But A Protestant Dissenter is quite unappeasable , and , spidef-like , unapproachable , without demolishing his web . It was not enough that I had
purposely stated , "Avoiding , therefore , the adoration of the host adopted by the Catholic church , tTie Creeds and confessions of faith attached unto the sripper of our Lord by many of the modem and reformed sects , and the order of the Ifoly Comiimuion a 3 W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/40/
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