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    awakens their rejoicings ? Alas ! men are swayed by tomes ; atvd this satnfc unknown and unknowable Church , like the idol deity of many a savage tribe * receives the adoration of its worshipers , because so it was before we were born , and a superstitious fear precludes the thought of its being otherwisew We have sometimes thought that Church oaight mean Churchmen—and the interests of the Church , the glebes , the stalls , and the larders of the clergy *

    To this idea we have been led by analogy . Philosophers talk of body arm substance ; bat what are body and substance when qualities are taken away P They discourse very luminously of an abstract idea of a triangle ; but then " it is neither oblique , nor rectangle ; neither equilateral , equicrural , nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once . " * With Bishop Berkeley , I have to beg " that the reader would fully and certainly inform himself whether he has such an idea or not . " If not , then , I imagine , I have some authority for thinking that the word Church is Churchmen written short .

    Of-substratum apart from qualities we know nothing ; of abstract triangles we are profoundly ignorant ; and in the same way we think , with all due modesty , that a Church without clergy , emoluments , and dignities , is a word without a corresponding reality . We say this with all due modesty , for we fear it is a heresy to identify Church and Churchmen . Leaving every one at liberty td think as he pteases , we return to inquire wherein the danger of the Church lieth , and what are the remedies proposed for its cure .

    The Church , it seems , is unsound within ; her constitution is decayed and corrupt . We put it to our author whether it would not be more merciful tA let the old lady die in peace , undisturbed by the nostrums of this or that em * pirical practitioner . No ! says the Parish Priest ; " I would say of her front the bottom of my soul , Bsto perpetua ! " may she live for ever . And therefore our author feels , and very properly feels , the necessity of her having st good constitution .

    We believe that the Parish Priest is attiong the most respectable friends of the aforesaid Church . He himself informs us , " I am no radical , no enthusiast , no speculative reformer . I belong to no party ; I am connected with no society ; J am neither Whig nor Tory , Orthodox nor Evangelical , High-Church nor Low-Church , Calvinist nor Arminian , Liberal nor Bigot , according to the perverted signification in which these terms are used ; but I am really and truly a staunch member of the Church of England , a loyal subject to the King , and I trust an humble and laborious parish priest , "

    The vouchers to bis character are in his worli . The pamphlet is evidently the production of an honest , independent mind . From such a writer we may hope to learn wherein the Church is indisposed ; his statements are worthy of credit , his prescriptions worthy of consideration . The pamphlet of the Parish Priest was occasioned by the perusal of < a work entitled Horae Catechetical , the production of a clergyman named Gill y * In this work Mr , Gilly insists on the necessity of public catechising in church ,

    in imitation of the Roman Catholic clergy , whose uniform practice , we ane informed , it is , both abroad and in England ; and in imitation also of the foreign Protestant clergy , iu whose hands public catechising is said to produce the most happy effects . It places the rising generation in the view of the minister ; it gives them in their tenderest infancy the advantage of his . paternal protection , and causes them to be sent to church , to be publicly instructed ¦ i

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/3/