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Mr . Beverley , of Beverley , Yorkshire , is a young man of family and fortune , whp enjoyed a university education at Cambridge , but who , unlike the majority of those who unite the two former advantages with the latter , now devotes his time and talents to the assiduous pursuit of knowledge and the zealous enlightenment of his fellow-men . When the Catholic question was uppermost in public discussion , he was powerfully active , by word of
mouth and of pen , in promoting the happy issue . On the subject of the present pamphlets he expressed his opinions with fearless honesty a few years ago , in a clever appendix to a singular Latin document professing to have been discovered in the archives of the ancient town of Beverley , That book was aptly entitled " Horrida Hystrix . " The porcupine shafts have now again bristled up , and not a few have been darted with unerring , if not deadly aim . Mr . B . thus opens his business with his Grace of York :
" Most Reverend Sir , " If the many persons in your diocese who have the ability and the wish , had also the courage , to express their opinions openly on the present state of the Church of England , I never should have undertaken to lead the forlorn hope against the ecclesiastical batteries . The timidity of my friends compels me to become your Grace ' s correspondent , and to invade the slumbers of Bishopthorpe with sounds not usually addressed to Archiepiscopal
* A Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of York , on the present Corrupt State of the Church of England . By R . M . Beverley , Esq . 12 th Edition . A Reply to a Letter addressed by R . M . Beverley , Esq ., &c . By the Rev . William Taylor Wild , Curate of Newark-npon-Trent . 2 d Edition ^ The Apostolical Institution of the Church Examined , in Six Letters to R . M . Beverley , Esq . By the Rev . O . Oliver , Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon . Lord Kensington . The Tombs of the Prophets : a Lay Sermon on the Corruptions of the Church of Christ . By R , M . Beverley , E * q ,
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influential , does my attachment to Jesus become ; and the more pleasant also is the occasion when , as now , I eat and drink in remembrance of him . And fully assured am I by experience , that my heart will glow and throb with pure emotion at the thought of him , of whatever redounds to his honour , advances the great objects of his life and death , approximates me more closely to his divine image , and assures me more strongly of a union with him through eternity ; when my faith shall have become , and in proportion as it does become , the sole guide of my life , the sole prompter of my feelings .
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On the Corrupt State dfthe Church of England . € 27
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ON THE CORRUPT STATE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/51/
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