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tiaaily , Jfebugb'm tsta by no means join him m flie coockision , that * be qualificafciorffi of refigious teachers always terve fceen * and always must ke 9 derived from a religious establishment , much 1 ^ 4 *^^ as the Church < rf . fcigkmd . There are few frames ^ Hxich we ktM- in higher reverenoa , and no wiitin ^ s wiaich , we diioi liawe n * or « promoted * the ca « se of pore jraarafty , cf rational ptely , arid « rf < etegant taste , that * those < of lorfrn , * aadLc » dfe , ^ r * d Sh % * ey , of lWa ^* yefyOTd , weHiay ^ and precisely ., becaiise these are the tmen whose characters afid productions exhibit least < rf * tiiat bigoted and aexchisive spirit which is sometitftes oon--sidered the lest of n good chu ^ lunan , and who woukl have | "bdly drafted ihenreelves iof aeay opportunity to enlarge the boundafies and widen tfce bas 4 s of a system which at once cramped the wgorons exercise of « heiT understandings and contracted the benevolent sympathies of l ^ eir iieaarte . It is ( Certaiidy renaarfcafcte , that the most vahiafete contributions to $ he etfiical mA sacred l ^ erature iof torn country hate proceeded Aom men who were educated and ibmiod die tone of their sentimeinte about the middle of the last
century , when particular circumstances hzd made iifeeraiity me fe ^ hton of Xhe day , and sanctioned a cordial intercourse between the f-riends of tta&i and learning « mang the clergy and the Dtssenling tnasDisters ; # iose better days , when the amiable and pious Jortin , ate * © peaking of the two Univerfdties , coold add with imaffected condour , Let to do justice to the theological merits and useful labours of persons of another denomination in this country , erf * whom Qui tales sunt * , utinum essent iWMrtw . " ?
But we cannot submit to Dr . Marsh's unwarrantable ( assumption , tfeat *< a Christian ministry , possessed of those attainments "wbich are acquired by a learned edocation , cannot be formed without a fieligious Establi ^ nient * ^ - ^ P . 19 . W « fcnow k is . aTrery prevaknt ia ^ iioa 4 o dept » eoia * e the learning if not the intellect , of the Dissenters . % a regulation * as impolitic as it is unjust , the doors of die national seats of leaining are ciosed agaii ^ rfien of the most honourable and conscientious spirit ; and then , their want of
advantages of mhkh they have been so unjustly deprived , is turned as an argument against them to deny their attainments asad throw contempt tipon their cause , Nevertheless , we wiil be bold to aifirm , that if their nwreiber and their means be impartially weighed , the Dissenters can produce tben f « iM proportion of learned and useful labourers in ike cause < of evangelical truth and philosophical inquiry ; and we think the fact may be adduced to prove , that the tore of truth- when it can be indulged without restraint or
perversion , wiil operate as a more steady and -powerful incentive to literary exeition , than all the advantages and distinctions of the most richly- ^ endowed hierarchy . The names of such men as Lardtter , and Benson , and Chandler , of Jeremiah Jones , of Pierce , and Barriiagton , and Fanner , and Leland , for the depth and accuracy of their learning , their powerful reasoning , tfwir patient research and critical acumen , would confer honour on any church , even the Church of England ; the ministers < of -which , when they seriously apply themselves to the acquisition of that theological knowledge witih which their own academic institutions bo imperfectly pr ovide them , uq tica ecrnple io have recourse to these distinguished nonconformist divines to supply their deficiency in those qualifications which , if we are to believe the Bishop of
Peterborough , are unattainable wrthoitt a religious establisbmeiit . It is sift- * gular that the precursors and imtrucJtoTs < of the present race of ^ German theo kgdans , w ! h > , with all their extravaganoet , have done nope than any -other ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/32/
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