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    CRITICAL NOTICES.

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    of September , justice was executed on Leanor < le Cisnerog , widow of the bachelor Herezuelo . She suffered feerself to be burnt alivev notwithstanding the great and repeated exertions made to bring her to a conviction of her errors . Finally , she resisted , what was sufficient to melt a stone , an admirable sermon preached , at the auto of that day , by his excellency Don Juan Manual , bishop of Zainora , a man no less learned and eloquent in the pulpit than illustrious in blood . But nothing could move the impenetrable heart of that obstinate woman / "—Pp . 287—29 K

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    ing , and though the vindication of this principle ie the object of the Society , it is too plainly evideut , that the term " evangelical" is not intended to apply to those who dissent from the doctrines as well as the discipline of the Church-of England . This limitation of the term is the more remarkable as , in the treatise before us , the sanction of some heterodox Dissenters is brought forward very

    readily , in confirmation of the principles of the Association ; and while Locke , Lardner , and others , are appealed to as triumphant vindicators of repealed truth , their disciples are forbidden to assist in establishing their principles and carrying on their work . Id times like these , however , there is work for all ; aud the manifestation of this spirit of exclusion is chiefly to be lamented on account of those who entertain it . The excluded

    can . observe and rejoice at the spread of truth , looking rather to the extent of its diffusion than to the narrowness of its

    source . The publication of the Society ' s first treatise affords a high gratification to the friends of truth and the advocates of liberty of conscience . Its motto is * ' Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good , " aud its spirit is in accordance with this motto . We also find prefixed a passage from Locke on the duty of free inquiry ,

    which is worth being written in letters of light , and of which the subsequent remarks afford a fair development . The hopes excited by the form and pretensions of the treatise are not disappointed at Us close . It presents a clear exposition of the duty of free inquiry iu religious mutters , and a powerful exhortation to its fulfilment . The materials of the essay &re arranged under four heads , which com

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    CRITICAL NOTICES .

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    Art . I . — Library of Ecclesiastical Knowledge . No . I . On Free Inquiry in Religion . Published for the Society for Promoting Ecclesiastical Knowledge . Westley and Davis . 12 mo . pp . 48 . 1830 . Amojn g all societies , now so numerous , whose object is to increase mental power and moral influence by mechanical means , none ought to be regarded with a closer watchfulness or a deeper interest than the Association for the diffusion of Ecclesiastical Kuowledge . It remains to be seen what is the extent

    of its resources , and how they are to be employed ; but its avowed objects are all-important ; and the avowal having been made the subject of public attention , the adherence of the Society to its professed principles , or its defalcation from them , must occasion incalculable good or harm .

    The main object proposed is to establish a distinction between the laws of the Saviour ' s kingdom , and those of the kingdoms of this world , —between the Christiauity of the New Testameut * and those counterfeit resemblances of it

    which have long been received by the nations of the earth . For this purpose , original treatises are to be given illustrative of the history and principles of the Christiau church , and reprint * , entire and abridged , of such portions of the works of eminent divines as have au

    important bearing on the objects of the Society . Its affairs are , we are told , conducted by " Evangelical Dissenters , " in whose ranks , it might have been hoped , tuauy members of every sect might be unhesitatingly included . But though an attachment to the principle of Dissent forms a bond of union already subsist-

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    THEOLOGY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/43/