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ously making rapid advances iu this island , on the continent of Europe , in America , and well it may 5 for to what is it generally opposed ? To every form and complexion of religion but the Christian , in its own naked majesty of symmetry and h ue . These disputants against a common Saviour's divinity meet us fairly with the words of Christ ; we reply to them
disingenuously in those of Tertullian or Athanasius . They press us maniily with an undisputed text ; we turn round upon them knavishly as weakly with an an * thoritative comment . They exhibit in its uniform shape an inspired phrase a hnndred times repeated ; We twist it topsy-turvey , and then with calin effrontery ask them what it means . They stand undismayed in the terra nrma of
Scripture ; we seem to dread it as a heap of sand , unless consolidated by the * hay and stubble' of a supplementary theology . Well may the world think us unequally matched on Protestant ground , when evasion , quibble , stratagem , and subterfuge , are our most approved auxiliaries . My Lords , these are hard words ; but a pusillanimity so penal , a treachery that thus recoils , wounds one to the heart . "
There is much more in this pamphlet that we could quote with pleasure . We are happy to understand that the Appeal has been heard and heeded by the members of the church , and that " the warning song * ' has not been altogether " sung iu vain , "
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Critical Notices . 337
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Art . III . —The Catholic Epistle of St . Judc 9 with a Paraphrase and Notes * London , Keating and Brown . Pp . 34 . 6 d . The introduction to this pamphlet briefly , as may be supposed , defends the genuineness of the Epistle of Jude against Luther and Michaelis . The precise year when it was written is uncertain . From verse 17 it appears that few of the
apostles were then living , perhaps only St . John . The mention of the prophecy of Enoch leads to the subject of traditions , the admission of which constitutes a chief feature in the system of Romatiisin . Our annotator has probably over-rated the admission of Mackuight , which he thus describes : —
" It is reasonable to think , as Macknight justly observes , that at the time the ancient revelations were made , somewhat of their meaning was also given , whereby posterity Was led to agree in their interpretation of these very obscure oracles . On any other suppositkm
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Art . II . —An Earnest but Tempe * rate Appeal to the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England in behalf of Apostolical Christianity . By a Christian of no other Denomination . Pp . 32 . This pamphlet is an original and rather singular production . It is an impeachment of . the church upon the four following articles : —1 . The exclusive subscription of her clergy to the Thirty-nine Articles . 2 . The retention of the creed
commonly called that of St . Athanasius , in her Book of Common Prayer . 3 . Some initiatory invocations in her Litany . And 4 . The want of uniformity in her morning and evening ritual of devotion . It is declamatory rather than argumentative , and , as a composition , very defective , though ambitious of effect ; but it contains some home truths ou the
inconsistency of the professions of Protestantism , whose main principle is " the Bible and the Bible only , " with the articles and creeds which characterize and constitute Church-of-Englandism . And if the clergy are not utterly insensible to such " appeals , " ifc must make them feel " there ' s somethiug rotten" in their state .
But what renders the pamphlet worthy of observation is , that it is an attack upon the church from one of its own members , at least from one who belongs to no other denomination , who professes great yeneratiou and attachment for the members
of the establishment , who has all his life been connected with her , aud who , though be honours conscientious dissent , is neither in principle or feeling a Dissenter . He speaks of himself as " the son of a clergyman who only scorned more than he dreaded or hated dissent ; a patron of more than one living of this church ; au e * lere of her schools , a graduate of one of the universities , the companion and the friend iu earlier and
later life , and almost exclusively so through a long period of years , of one or other of her fraternity ; an attendant , and ( to my shame , perhaps , be it spoken ) never but an attendant , at her places of worship ; all the accumulated associations bf the infant , boyish , and adult mind are awakened iu me at the very sound of her name , aud I lament over her infirmities almost with the storge of the child . "
It is from such an one that we hear , and with no slight pleasure , as he identifies himself with the church , the following language : — " Unitarianism , my Lords , is notori-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/41/
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