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occasionally been startled , when called upon to visit the sick , at finding no provision for the case of the wieke ^ and unconverted man ; and on uttering over the grave of a notorious unbeliever or contemner of God ' s law , the words < 6 Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God to take to himself the Soiil of our dear brother departed ;"—but we find that the churdh knows nothing of bad men or infidels ; she proceeds throughout with an utter disdain of such digressions : hers is a community of saints ; and it is to them , and not to the world , that she speaks .
High pretensions these ! and yet Mr . BucJd sets us . the example of comparing profession with practice in many respects so very fairly , that if truth were here compatible with mere courtesy , we would leave him to finish what he has well begun . But it seems to us , that his censures are mainly directed against the body of the people , the inferior clergy , and a few derelictions from the original forms of the church ; and that he altogether leaves
out of sight one great cause of indifference , disgust , and neglect . When a worldly and politic son of the church addresses the people in her favour and declaims against dissent , we commonly find the reasons he has to give have , at least , as far as they go , the merit of consistency ; but when a writer , eminent for spirituality , is also her advocate , this consistency becomes far more difficult , and it is evident that unless he be fearless , general , and
unsparing in his condemnation of what is wrong , he has no chance at all with the serious reader . Whatever the church may be in her original constitution , being what she is 9 Mr . Budd must know that she is not now a spiritual church . We cannot conceive any thing more contradictory than the temper and spirit she requires from her baptized children , and the temper and spirit which , as it seems to us , is the spring of all her machinery . The
^» * A TV ' hopes and fears of her ministers are continually excited by things temporal , nor , is it always by the exertion of their powers in a legitimate direction that the desired success is obtained ; often it « s purchased by qualities perfectly distinct from those which are of value in the eyes of a Christian ; often it is the result of a mere concurrence of worldly circumstances . Andyef . Mr . Budd can expect and require that sponsors should faithfully discharge their trusts , and " renounce me vain pomps and glory of the would , and all covetous desires of the same ; " he can lament over the iunwillingness to incur
this heavy responsibility , and can murmur at the wide-spreading evil - of dissent , while he omits to acknowledge , befove all things , the worldjiness that so deeply infects the clerical character ., and the system of patrouage which unfortunately acts as a continual encouragement to the earthly , instead of the spiritual , energies of the church . Instead of frowning over the
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622 Review . — Budd on Infant Baptism ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 622, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/38/
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