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Christian minister * Let some of them be brought out to give a crowning value to this useful and beautiful volume . The discourse to which we have alluded is a valuable one , entitled " Re . ligion an inward Principle , " The religion which was taught by Christ and his apostles , being " the hidden man of the heart , " is shewn not to be dependent on particular modes of faith and worship . It is also clear that no man can , without presumption , form a judgment on the power of the religious principle in another : that religion cannot flourish in the heart , without the agency of God accompanying the strenuous diligence of man ; that religion can scarcely be endangered by causes altogether external , and is not amenable to human laws , nor dependent on human patronage .
" Lastly , since reli g ion is a principle , the inseparable alliance between the p ossession of its spirit and our happiness , both present and future , is placed in a new and striking light . The happiness of man cannot be independent on the mind . That must be its seat , and that , under God , its source . Now , habits of religious temper amd conduct , compose the religious character ; and this character , created by the blessing" of God on the instructions of his
word , the ordinances of his house , the efforts of a wise education , and the vicissitudes of mortal events , is another name for the substantial bliss of human beings . Even in this life we find it the parent of satisfaction and joy , which no other habit or state can afford , and the soother of sorrows , which refuse every other comforter . But its noblest triumphs—thanks be rendered unto the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the assurance
—will be displayed in the life which is to come . The purest happiness of the mind , will be the happiness of heaven : and the degree of it will be greatest in the cases of those whose religion is most eminently ' the hidden man of the heart / » —P . 24 . It only remains for us to express our hope that the heads of families will testify the gratitude which they cannot but feel to the Editor and Authors of this valuable work , by applying it to the purpose designed ; by endeavouring to render the offices of domestic worship instrumental ** in extending the prevalence of vital and personal religion /'
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Although what is called the Catholic question has been most happily determined , we are still desirous of recording some of the reasonings which the disputants have severally employed , as well as those on which we ourselves rely . In the controversy lately waged , nothing was more observable
than the scanty list of tracts on either side . The press was chiefly used for vulgar placards and hand-bills . There was no literary warfare . By one description of men the strength of the case was placed on its merits , and on the wisdom and equity of the Legislature ; while by another it was rested in appeals—some of thern not a little inflammatory—to the honest prepossessions of the multitude , in favour of what are styled Protestant
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464 Catholic Claims .
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SENTIMENTS OF CERTAIN CHURCH-OF-ENGLAND MEN ON THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS . *
• A Letter to a Country Clergyman on his " Serious Appeal to tlie Bible . " From a Resident Member of the University . Oxford . 1829 . Pp . 23 . 8 vo .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1829, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2574/page/16/
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