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the New Testament ; and the third , as the author seems to be aware , ouly repeats in a figurative form what had been before aaid literally . But Mr . Scales is something more thau his title-page proclaims . He writes to recommend , not only the principles of Dissent , but of Congregationalism ; and claims for the latter divine authority . Now the
questiou which he puts , as a conclusive one , in reference to some of the practices of the Established Church , ( " oy what law ? " ) might be demauded , with equal force , oi some common practices amongst Congregationalists ; nor is it a question easy to be answered by any who profess to rind in the New Testament , not only a treasury of religious principles , but a
complete and minute directory of forms and observances . When the majority of the members of Congregational Churches shall allow the minority to be fully persuaded in their own minds , and to interpret Scripture for themselves without expelling them , should they arrive at different conclusions on points of doctrine , or even of practice , when not involving moral principle , then , and not
till then , may they come forward as the consistent friends of Liberty of Conscience . The requirement of conformity with a faith of a majority , whether made in Westminster Hall or in a barn , whether enforced by pecuniary mulct or by expulsion from the society to which the individual wishes to belong , is alike spiritual tyranny , and the one differs from the other only in degTee , not in principle .
It is but just to add that this little volume does its author great credit for the unpretendiug , clear , and argumentative style in which it is written , and still more for the calm , conciliatory , and Christian temper which he uuiformly evinces .
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Art . III . —A Discourse on the Proper Character of Religious Institutions , delivered at the Opening of the Independent Congregational Church , in Barton Square , Salem , U . S . North America . By Henry Column . Liverpool : F . B . Wright . London : Hunter . 12 aio . Pp . 33 .
Mr . F . Wright has done well to repubJish this excellent discourse ; and it is gratifying to find that another edition of it was ' « much called for . " Its character is catholic , rational , and spiritual . It uufolds in an earnest , and sometimes
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eloquent manner , the true principles on which rest the external observances of religious worship , the spirit in which they should be attended to , and the ends to which they should be directed . At the end we have the following Hymn for the Occasion by the Rev . John Pierpoint : " O Thou , to whom in ancient time
The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung , " Whom kings adored in song sublime , And prophets praised with glowing tongue . Not now , on Zion ' s height alone , Thy favoured worshiper may dwell . Nor where , at sultry noon , thy Son Sat , weary , by the Patriarch ' s well . From every place below the skies , The grateful song , the fervent prayer—The incense of the heart—may rise To heaven , and find acceptance there .
In this Thy house , whose doors we now For social worship first unfold , To Thee the suppliant throng shall bow , While circling years on years are rolled . To Thee shall Age , with snowy hair , And Strength and Beauty , bend the knee , And Childhood lisp , with reverent air , Its praises and its prayers to Thee . O Thou , to whom in ancient time The lyre of prophet-bards was strung , To Thee , at last , in every clime Shall temples rise and praise be sung . " Pp . 32 , 33 .
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Critical Notices . —Theological . 403
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Art . IV . — Twelve Sermons , brief and explanatory . By the Rev . E . S . Appleyard , B . Ai London : Hatch - ard .
The Preface to this small and very cheap volume informs ns that it is published * ' as an experiment , to ascertain whether the writer who , by weakness of health , is rendered incapable of exercising himself in his proper vocation , can , in a more humble mode , make himself , in the least degree , useful to liis fellow-creatures . " We should be sorry that the answer to a question like this were suspended upon the
success of such an experiment , for , wherever we discern , aa in the present instance , proofs of ability and originality , and , what is far better , of sterling piety and Christian feeling , the capacity of the author for usefulness can be no matter of question at all , and our doubts cun only extend to the means he lias
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/43/
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