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from entering on the consideration of the manner in which the co-operation here recommended might be effected , and of the specific objects to which it might be most successfully directed . He cannot , however , send his discourse from the press in compliance with the request of his friends , without a brief
allusion to these subjects . Associations should be formed of all who renounce the authority of human creeds and adopt the Scriptures only for their religious guide ; originating in small independent district societies , and uniting in one extensive body . These associations should be voluntary—always in action—* regularly corresponding with each other—supported
by small contributions from men of the same spirit in all ranks of life ; the objects to which their attention and their efforts might be turned , are such as the following , viz .: the dissemination of the great principles of Christian faith and practice , which they profess ;—the erection of new congregations on these principles , —the formation of tract societiesthe establishment of occasional district
and general meetings of ministers and people , for religious worship and edification , at which discourses on doctrinal subjects might be delivered—the sending forth of missionaries to the various towns and villages , to bear testimony agaiust the corruptions and inventions of men , and to vindicate the authority and
teachings of Scripture , both by the preaching of the word and by the circulation of tracts—the assistance of poor , or rising congregations—the establishment of Sunday-Schools , in connexion with their places of worship—the protection of ministers and others , who may be brought ! into difficult circumstances by their mawly avowal and defence of the truth- —ana
the maintenance of a system of correspondence and co-operation , with societies founded On similar principles in other countries . " All these objects have been attempted in England ; experience amply attests their practicability and ugefdfniess . Some of them might be tried with succ&ti hi Ireland . From the North to the South * , men are to be fbutid there ilr abundance " . ai
of talents , contact and zeal , e ^ tito the work . Let tntf people taite air interest in their labouts , and support theni with their cWat-actcfs , their sttostaiicfc , and theh- exertions ' : and noil matW y aats shall pass away , befotfc aiich astfbcfetlonB wilt be in vigbrouB antf sutcfcfcsfnf operation throughout the latrd . ' ^ Pfr . 3 d 1 , 40 .
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Under this head we propose to give variety to the Repository by inserting occa . sionally extracts from different periodical works , illustrative of their opinions and literary merits , or containing any interesting or instructive facts or observations .
Art . VI . —Foreign Quarterly Review . No . II . The Catholic Church . — " The third cause to which we would allude , as having operated far and wide in favour of liberty in the middle ages , is the influence of the Catholic church . Its modern
enemies , not content with insisting on the true ground of Protestantism , the intolerable assertion of spiritual despotism by that church , have endeavoured to represent it as the constant enemy of civil freedom . We cannot but think that the history of ancient times speaks almost uniformly in favour of the contrary
position . Selected indiscriminately from the very lowest ranks of society , it could not be expected that the priesthood , however tenacious of their own imprescriptible rights , should have felt much sympathy with the assertors of temporal dominion , whether barons or emperors . r ITL Jm * +- - m L « . ma M rm ¦ n - ^ p ^ w ^ w L *^ k ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . a . j m- ^ The of herdsmanwhoFortune
^* . . ^* ^ *^ *^ ** ** . ^ ^^ son a , m had raised to the cardinal ' s hat or papal tiara , if his elevation had left within him the least spark of human feeling , could not but view with some degree of pity the sufferings of that class from which he had himself been raised , and to which , in the eye of the prOud descendant of a hundred nobles , he still belonged . And
his views of policy generally coincided with his natural feelings . It is impossible to read the history of the Guelfs and Ghibellines of Italy , without perceiving that it was at least as much through the intrigues of the church as through the firmness of" the people ' , that the repubfirmness of" the people ' , that the
republican spirit triumphed' at once over the tyranny of domestic sigrion and the pretensions of the imperial court . And , even in darker ages , we ought never to forget , that the liberation of serfs was placed by the cliurch ^ mong those good deeds which were exacted as the tokens
of a death-bed repentance . "—Pp . 328 , 329 . Christening Bells . — " If we tuih to the Pontificate Rortiatitirtt ) wfc ftnd » ct irtaftoriy for the baptism of bells , which is to $ ie full as abstirti a * alty of tntf' preceding ones , nay , seems to combine in itself all possible' afofflrditfes atf to btwdtetfons
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CONTEMPORARY PERIODICALS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/51/
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